Infinite Jest

[jd]

Quite frankly I think the biggest killer for the book was that the
footnotes were in the back, so you couldn't tell if it was just
another one-line footnote referencing a fictional movie or if it was a
three page, important addition to the story.  I really, truly hope
that one day they'll reprint it with the footnotes at the bottom of
the pages so that you can tell right then and there instead of
flipping to the back five times per page.  Half the page might be
footnotes but I think it would make a world of difference.  The parts
that were good, were really good, but I couldn't reconcile myself with
it as a whole - then again I didn't bother flipping back to every last
footnote, so it's possible I missed some important bits.  Then AGAIN,
the parts that were bad, were really bad.  I don't know where he got
his information on marijuana, for example, because unless it was
supposed to be BS he seems to have really screwed that facet of it up.