just finished Infinite Jest

Charlie M. Brownian Motion is still autocommitted to the crack halfway house, but asks for a tour anyway, which is enthusiastically conducted by Mrs. Benigna Polyp,1 dressed in a mauve Star Trek uniform with cargo pockets large enough to hold ammunition for her Kalashnikov. ‘We are really a house in utero, dedicated to the crack connoisseur,’ says Mrs. Polyp. ‘We were featured last month in Crack Aficionado magazine.’ Brownian Motion likes the curtains, a jaunty ensemble of synthetic rayon and polyester2 in Messerschnitt silver and black.

1. Not to be confused with Benjamin Plop, whose popular nautical shindigs often brought the fish police.

2. No actual need for a footnote here.

>>9627346
what the fuck is this shit?

The book isn't gibberish, and it isn't actually all that pretentious -- a lot of the people who like it are, and Wallace might have been a few years before he wrote it, but it's pretty good. A lot of the entertainment value comes from the fact that you can look closely at pretty much any clause line sentence paragraph page section or chapter and find that it ireally is working hard to signify something. A lot of energy gets spent on metafiction and decoration, but not like a huge amount. It's NOT a Pollock painting, it's more like Bosch.

i also just finished it and i think that a lot of the criticism levied at it is valid and not everyone has to like it

but it made me feel things no other piece of art has, ever, and connected with me on such a deep level that i cannot help but hold a deep love for it

I could tell from reading it that DFW was a homosexual

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>>9627340

Dropped it at 100 pages. It committed my one and only cardinal sin for fiction: it bored me.

It's a real shame that interesting, fun, funny people don't write novels- or at least don't have the talent to write good ones. Instead we get academics and shut-ins.

>>9627886
but he says he a homodont

>>9627347
a parody