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Infinite Jest

Name: Infinite Jest
Rating: 5 (17 reviews)
Author: David Foster Wallace
ISBN: 9780316066525

David Foster Wallace · 2005 · 1104 pages

The story of an intelligent but zany dysfunctional family is set in a drug-and-alcohol addicts' halfway house and a tennis academy and follows such themes as heartbreak, philosophy, and advertising.

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Naval Ravikant
“Infinite Jest, David Foster Wallace? I’ve read a little bit of it. It was good, but he was a very smart person who had a terrible ending.”↗
Natalie Wynn (Contrapoints)
“God, this thing is huge, it's like the "Infinite Jest" of TERFery. So "Troubled Blood" is a detective novel about the simmering heterosexual tension between two investigators. That's really what Rowling is best at isn't it, simmering?”
John Green
“I read Infinite Jest in college. Its portrayal of a highly competitive, academically rigorous tennis academy fascinated me, but what I loved most was the novel’s deep understanding of adolescent depression and anxiety. Infinite Jest is also about much else, of course – technology, global politics, addiction – but it’s one of the best coming-of-age stories I’ve ever read.”↗
Peter Attia
“I have always wanted to read Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace… maybe this is the year.”
Mark Duplass
“Any book that requires two bookmarks to read (the extra is for the endnotes, some of which include their own footnotes) is worth taking a chance on. Stay for the inspired wit, the prescient stabs at our technological future, and the incomparable Don Gately — who is, in my opinion, one of the great fictional heroes of all time.”↗
Aoc
“"A few classics: - Hope in the Dark, Solnit - Why We Can’t Wait, MLK - The Search for Common Ground, Thurman - Team of Rivals, Goodwin - Col Poems,Audre Lorde - Bhagavad Gita - Capital, Piketty - 100 Years of Solitude, García Márquez - Infinite Jest / Consider the Lobster, Wallace"”↗
Sonny Bunch
“@mayersteach Good book! (Took me literally six months to read, but: good book!)”↗
Jason Segel
“I feel that Infinite Jest did a real service to humanity in an age where you’re told to sit and accept television and advertising. Wallace makes you work for satisfaction. As you trudge through the difficult sections and progress through the book, you feel a real sense of accomplishment. It changed my life and my relationship to reading.”↗
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