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Review title: Nice Cover - Stops There
Product review: Ok - I am pretty hard to chase away from a book, espically one that got as much hype as Infinite Jest. Is the praise for this book some kind of publisher-sponsored cabal?This thing wanders around worse than Blog. Does the next wave of fiction not require editing? Is there a voice in there? I confess, I couldn't even pick it up anymore after 150 pages. I came to this site just so I could rant somewhere.Comparisons to Pynchon are perhaps the greatest jest of all. Pynchon's work has a voice and a world. This book reads, at best, like the notes for a book. The first draft maybe, or the spewings of someone with a serious case of hypergraphia.And what's up with the middle name? Why doesn't the author just go all the way and call himself D. Foster Wallace? That's the pinnacle of pretense, which perhaps is the wellspring of this tedious tome.A bit harsh, to be sure, but with so many pages, I expected so much good reading. This soup needs reduction. There - now I can move on.
