*** What are you reading at the moment?

[Rev Jones]

'Infinite Jest' by David Foster Wallace

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'Infinite Jest' by David Foster Wallace

I did end up reading through this. Some really high points, but also some times it really drags. I almost feel this is one that needs to be reread a time or two to fully comprehend. It is solid B for me, there is a classic tale in the novel. It needed to be even more edited to make it a better read, just my personal opinion though.

[Rev Jones]

I did end up reading through this. Some really high points, but also some times it really drags. I almost feel this is one that needs to be reread a time or two to fully comprehend. It is solid B for me, there is a classic tale in the novel. It needed to be even more edited to make it a better read, just my personal opinion though.

I totally see what you mean. it is excessive with some of the story lines and the endless end notes

I bet some publishers would have shaved off another 100 pages at least


I dug up this fun fact for you and me :

"If you think Infinite Jest – at 1,100-odd pages – is a long book, be advised that it started longer. Wallace wrote to a friend that “the fucker’s cut by 600 pages from the first version”. He proofread the book, according to DT Max’s fine biography Every Love Story Is a Ghost Story, “with loose pages of Infinite Jest spread out in front of him, watching the movie Beethoven over and over again on a TV/VCR combo from Rent-A-Center”. He claimed, variously, to have caught 47,000 and 712,000 typos. Beethoven is a film about a St Bernard dog."