Another look at Infinite Jest

I explained last week that I had decided to read all thousand plus pages of David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest, including the footnotes.

The book was listed by Time Magazine as one of the 100 most influential novels of he 20th century.  It isn’t.  Nobody has read the book.  Nobody.  It is unreadable.  It is beyond comprehension.  I read Don Quixote so the length isn’t the problem.  The whole book is the problem.  

I abandoned my copy in one of those little lending libraries at my gym.  I feel just a wee bit guilty about that.