Reddit reviews Infinite Jest: A Novel

You should probably not read any of what's written below.

I'm fairly new here, but I've been on the internet for a long time. That's nothing. There are photos floating around of things you do not want to imagine. These might help for the morbidly curious: screwworms, necrosis, impaction, botched...

But few things compare to the human imagination itself. [Justine] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justine_(Sade) and Infinite Jest have some particularly chilling passages.

One passage stood out to me in which a crack-addicted mother's withdrawals and denial causes her to carry her miscarried child about town in the heat of summer, wrapped in a blanket, still attached to her through its impacted placenta and rotting afterbirth, as she sinks into delirium and what's left of her child is consumed by insects in her arms.

HP Lovecraft ain't got shit on David Foster Wallace. Don't get me wrong though, it's also a very funny book. When he writes about Incarnations of Burned Children you get exactly what it says on the tin.

I laugh at your maze of footnotes. Infinite Jest or go home.

Sometimes I think it was always meant to be 1,200 pages of "ha-ha" on the reader. Which explains the title, somewhat.

Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace.


I'd really appreciate it, if your kid could tell me how it ends.
Thanks.

How about 1,008 pages of Infinite Jest?