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Review title: Not worth the slog
Product review: I made it to page 800 before I decided I was sick of this book. He's brilliant, yeah, and he never lets you forget it -- but God, he just goes on. I found the tennis academy sections borderline unreadable, and for the last 300 pages or so before stopping I was so tired of how every character needs some grotesque quirk, some ridiculous deformity or absurd method of "demapping" her/himself. (I like that term, though.) I just wanted him to stop the circus for a while and follow some of the absurdity through, develop a few points. He does that in a few places, especially with Gately in the halfway house, and in those moments he manages to be funny, mind-boggling, and moving all at once. But ultimately it's just not worth the slog. His essays are terrific, and I like what I've read of his short fiction. In those genres he gets the same basic points across that he's dealing with in Infinite Jest, but without the piles and piles of chaff.
