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Review title: Wasted
Product review: If I hadn't been reading this a couple of pages at a time while on the toilet I would have considered it an almost complete waste of time. Aside from a smattering of brilliant passages addressing various addictions and compulsions I found the book shapeless and essentially without vision. I keep hearing about Wallace's "genius" but mostly what I picked up on was an almost ridiculous obsession with minutia and absurdly arcane detail. I probably should have started with his essays. As it is, this book pretty much put me off. I'll go back to reading Pynchon whose fluid and ambidextrous prose makes reading Wallace like plowing through the unrelenting monochromatic drone of a term paper written while under the influence of methamphetamine.
