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Somehow funny and interesting and boring all at the same time. Wallace inspects every angle of every moment. His characters are as hyper-self-aware and as excessively cerebral as he was himself. All of them are interesting but also rather repulsive. Wallace hated himself. Some of the prose is seriously brilliant. Definite DeLillo and Pynchon vibes. A satire of American life at a specific moment in time.
— Jan 27, 2026 07:33PM
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Tyson Vaughan
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This is exactly what I expected from DFW: droll, hyper-clever satire about the absurdity and pointlessness of mediated and medicated life in late 20th century America (but set in the future). It’s quaint now, to imagine an era when our biggest cares were about trivial, consumeristic choices. How times have changed. But I think that’s DFW’s point: how naive we were, how we denied our humanity for the trivial.
— Feb 08, 2026 05:37AM
