Comments on: So I Lied…

By: Jerome

Jerome — Tue, 08 May 2012 17:24:03 +0000

Thanks, Helped me a lot reading this article

By: Larry Green

Larry Green — Tue, 12 Apr 2011 13:37:18 +0000

I was attracted to your blog because I’m all into writing about fun, and making fun happen. But, wow! You are an in-depth writer, one whom I feel successfully tackles expressing perceptions that I for one relate to but never tried to put into words. Good writing.

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By: jmb

jmb — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 00:50:11 +0000

Mr. Carey is starting to look like the Usain Bolt of the Infinite Summer crowd.

By: Girl Detective

Girl Detective — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 01:44:24 +0000

I flew ahead to the finish too, and am glad I did. The book I read after I finished was Andromeda Klein by Frank Portman, and I really enjoyed it.

By: John O

John O — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 00:50:41 +0000

Occam’s Razor Approach: “Infinite Jest.” Personally, I doubt I’ll ever put it all the way down, because it is so dense and funny and strange and wonderful and insightful it is ultimately infinitely jestful, at least to me. Since I found this blog, I’ve been picking it up and opening to any page and taking out big chunks of it just for the fun of it, endnotes included. Pretty much random reading.

He knew what he was doing.

And I don’t think he cared what anyone thought. Can we safely and at a high correlation with other psych variables divide the world into those who like Wallace and those who don’t?

I suspect we can.

By: kevincarey1

kevincarey1 — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 23:13:37 +0000

Good point, JMB, I confess that I had exactly the same reaction after getting through 17 — I wanted to keep reading! Then I was like, “wait, that’s f—ing insane…”

By: John O

John O — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 03:46:32 +0000

Right on, again, jmb.

I don’t care what anyone says, which puts me in the majority when it comes to our own opinions of High Art, it is a work of genius, full stop.

By: jmb

jmb — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 16:32:18 +0000

also ... "(1,096, really, because when you finish you have to then go back and re-read the first 17 pages, which are the last chronologically and contain several crucial bits of information [...])" As I conjectured earlier, I think Wallace wanted the structure of the book to reflect the compulsive-repeated-viewing aspect of the Entertainment. It's not an accident that they have the same title.

By: jmb

jmb — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 15:53:37 +0000

“As Dave Eggers notes in the foreword, the act of writing Infinite Jest must itself have required a level of immersion and obsession not wholly dissimilar from the Substance-mania and single-minded drive for tennis greatness that occupies much of the novel.”

When I first read IJ, I was convinced DFW had to have been using speed to write it. I don’t know that I’d argue for that now, but I still think that the fact that endnote number 1 is what it is has to be seen as some kind of tip of the hat.