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Review title: Am I the only person who doesn't like this book?
Product review: Infinite Jest reads like a math textbook, and I question my sanity for pressing through till the end. The plot, if that's what we're to call it, is motionless. The characters are as sterile and flavorless as hyperbolic topological expressions -- it's not exactly that they are flat or dimensionless, they're just dull. Wallace inexplicably includes mathematical equations as part of the text, rather than in the footnotes ( ! Too full with the real plot events already?), and these equations are either simplistic or just wrong. Perhaps the nicest thing I could say is that all this is intentional, an attempt to match the style to the central theme of addiction, and if this is the case, Wallace's succeeded brilliantly: this book has all the coherence of the verbiose ravings of a strung-out cocaine addict. If you want verbiage as well as a decent read, I'd suggest Pynchon, Gaddis, or Eco.
