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Review title: Incredible Disappointment
Product review: Comparing Wallace to Pynchon is like comparing a kettle of sponges to Disney World. One is pointless inanity, and the other is entertaining and interesting.I tried, very hard, to like this book...I tried for years. I finally broke down and read analyses of his writing, critiques and speculation about the meaning of the writing... ...and it appears that he is that guy in the college coffee shop, scribbling in his diary because "no one understands the profound truth and emotion that he has discovered." I get it. I just really don't care. There are plenty of those people who do appreciate DFW...and I likely wouldn't be able to stand those people.If you want 'highbrow reading with menaning' Read Kafka or Sartre for more prosaic insight into the human condition, or Dostoyevsky for a better narrative. If you want intellectually elitist literature, read Foucault's Pendulum. If you want to be warm, burn your overrated copy of Infinite Jest.
