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[moishe lichtfuss]

just finished infinite jest two days ago and though it took me seven 
months (with some other good reads inbetween, like 'blood meridian' and 
d. johnson's 'angels') it was one of the most enjoyable reads i've had 
in years. i think it's it's a really good book to put aside for some 
time and then continue (maybe you could call it a really long short 
story collection, but the again it's too coherent. surely he's a little 
self-indulgent at times and leaves, as thompson is quoted in that onion 
article, 'a whole bunch of loose ends untied' but it has really 
beautiful, dense, and complex passages. (most beautiful description of 
someone getting a broomstick stuffed down his throat i ever read) or 
shorter: so much going on that i think the next two or three reads could 
still seem like the first. though i'm wondering how the, like, 'hip' 
vocabulary he employs will read in twenty years. i haven't even begun 
telling you how much i liked it, yet i'm too lazy too type.

no regrets w/r/t the big IJ, like, at all!

moishe

Matthew Ryan wrote:
> I've got a copy of Infinite Jest gathering dust on the bookshelf. 
> Haven't gotten around to it yet, but the remarks so far reminded me of 
> this piece from the Onion from a while back:
>  
> *Girlfriend Stops Reading David Foster Wallace Breakup Letter At Page 20*
> http://www.theonion.com/content/node/27769
>  
> Enjoy
>
>  
> On 3/16/06, *jd* <wescac at gmail.com <mailto:wescac at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     From what I've read it disappoints.  I do hear Broom of the System is
>     a good one and people seem to like his essays a lot.  I should give
>     them a shot before writing him off but I get the feeling he's more
>     cutesy than substance.
>
>