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The “in the style of H. G. Wells” part of the description in my library’s catalog turned out to be an exaggeration

If the last book started with the dragon weirdness with no regard to rElAtAbIlItY, it would have been much better.

But, “androzil?” Really?
“Androsaur” and “Androdrake” didn’t sound better?

The only place the Infinite Jest itself is continually present is with the Albertan terrorist scenes.
Which are told in the footnotes.

This has got to be the one of the least real books I’ve ever read. I see what Wikipedia means by post-postmodernism.
“Sports is nationalism is fascism,” yeah, only in the dreamworld you made, Wallace.
Also, EVERY character is absurdly eloquent. The prose and the dialogue is the exact same style.

I saw a clip of an interview with David Foster Wallace where he credited David Lynch’s show Twin Peaks for being an inspiration for this epic.
Yep, I can tell.

And thus begins a journey I’ve wanted to take since my sophomore year of college