Infinite Jest

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• Infinite jest

  Clima impazzito, umidità soffocante, invasioni di insetti. Il futuro prossimo ha il sapore amaro di un incubo: gran parte del territorio dello Stato del New England è stato convertito a discarica e ceduto in gestione al Canada da quelli che erano gli ... (read full critics)

  mangialibri published on Fri, 17 Feb 2012

• Book of a Lifetime: Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace

  For all David Foster Wallace's formidable and, to a bunch of woolly humanities graduates, estrangingly mathematical intelligence, when my friends and I first read 'Infinite Jest' about a year after it came out in 1996, we felt the instantaneous devot ... (read full critics)

  independent published on Fri, 11 Feb 2011

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  I owe a big thank to the organizers of the Infinite Summer, without whom this book probably would still be waiting for me to read it, sitting lonely in a corner of my inadequate bookshelf.
  This book is an experience of post-modernism, a challenging and passionate thousand pages voyage through a ... (continue)

  I owe a big thank to the organizers of the Infinite Summer, without whom this book probably would still be waiting for me to read it, sitting lonely in a corner of my inadequate bookshelf.
  This book is an experience of post-modernism, a challenging and passionate thousand pages voyage through american (and/or western) culture and society, made of addictions, mediatized and where human needs=Entertainement. Inspiring themes dealt with a great confidence and skill (I often felt as if I was being read this book).
  The first sentiment as I turned the last page of it was that I will miss this object, with which I've spent the last few months. Not only that: I might want to read it again to absorb it even more.
  It has been said by more important voices that DFW might've been the genious of this generation of young american writers, and I cannot but agree.

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  idna said on Sep 12, 2009 | 2 feedbacks

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  No one needs me to review David Foster Wallace. He's a genius whose mind works 20 times faster than mine. I race to follow him. It took me a long time to finish this one, as I stopped to read other (quick reads) in the middle. It's a rare book that I actually purchased so that I could take the time ... (continue)

  No one needs me to review David Foster Wallace. He's a genius whose mind works 20 times faster than mine. I race to follow him. It took me a long time to finish this one, as I stopped to read other (quick reads) in the middle. It's a rare book that I actually purchased so that I could take the time to read it. Start by reading his essays and get used to the footnote style and the long diversions. He writes so well about mental illness and about tennis and about academia. I would give anything to have known him before he died. When I finally finished, I was sad it was over.

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  Ritasb said on Dec 29, 2009 | Add your feedback

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  Some clarification about why I haven't finished this yet. I'm doing my best. I read hours and hours deep into the night and can't make a dent into this gargantuan brick of a book.

  Then why do I keep reading? DFW's literary might is awesome in the literal meaning of the word. You could already ... (continue)

  Some clarification about why I haven't finished this yet. I'm doing my best. I read hours and hours deep into the night and can't make a dent into this gargantuan brick of a book.

  Then why do I keep reading? DFW's literary might is awesome in the literal meaning of the word. You could already get that from his short stories, but the scale of this book together with the physical force of his writing really drive that point home. With every non-linear chapter, every footnote littered page and every esoteric word he builds something near impossible.

  That and this book is easily both one of the most cynical and one of the most humane books I have read. It's horrible and heartwrenching, as it should be.

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  alper said on Dec 3, 2009 | Add your feedback

• "What may we ask is so amusing, then?"

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  cubber said on Aug 11, 2010 | Add your feedback

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  I wasn't even sad, you know, it's like, he said what he needed to say and then he went to infinity.

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  not Johnson said on Oct 11, 2009 | Add your feedback

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  Dear David,

  1. Reading on the occasion of the Infinite Summer... :)
  2. (page 200): wonderfully written. This is the book where Wallace shows us how much he likes the language. The game of Latinate words against Saxonic words (this Country is walled - this Country is murated) is stunning and rarely well used be ... (continue)

  1. Reading on the occasion of the Infinite Summer... :)
  2. (page 200): wonderfully written. This is the book where Wallace shows us how much he likes the language. The game of Latinate words against Saxonic words (this Country is walled - this Country is murated) is stunning and rarely well used before... The issue begins to be: was he a lot more than Pynchon? Sure he was funnier... Let's see how the book continues...

  _At the end_

  Dear David,
  What would you have chosen?

  If you could have, what would you have chosen between that incredible mind of yours (and the masterpiece you have written) and the calm you've reached after so long a time?

  You've filled us with questions, all unanswered. Should we thank you for those questions?
  Should we blame you for going without answering any?

  I will thank you. For you have made clear something bigger than us exists. And, for some glorious years, it has inhabited your wonderful mind and soul.

  Thanks.
  And, please, see you.
  My wraith.

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  RickyMos said on Jul 6, 2009 | Add your feedback

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• English Books
• Paperback 1088 Pages
• Edition: 1st Paperback Ed
• ISBN-10: 0316921173
• ISBN-13: 9780316921176
• Publisher: Back Bay Books
• Pub date: Feb 01, 1997
• Dimensions: 1484 mm x 1032 mm x 323 mm Just how big is that?
• Also available as: Others and eBook
• In other languages: other languages Deutsche Bücher, Libros en Español, Libri Italiani

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