Jack’s Reviews > Infinite Jest > Status Update

Slow reading day today, didn’t even wake up enough to properly follow words on a page until nearly my 8th hour awake.

That Eschaton game was one of the funniest things I’ve ever read and also one of the more tragic

That phone call between Hal and Orin was just crushing, very glad to finally get to know Don beyond his accidental murder incident

In an ironic turn of events the book about a film so entertaining the viewer loses all desire to do anything but watch it has the exact same effect as Himself’s opus

This might be the best book I’ve ever read

I’m not sure if it was the wheelchair bound group of political assassins or mentions of giant, feral infants roaming between Quebec and New New England that made this really click for me. I’m all aboard now.

My head hurts a little, I’m tonguing a vague ulceration on my inner bottom lip. I am copying Wallace’s writing style.

Hal, I’m growing rather fond of you.

DFW’s writing style is already among the best I’ve ever laid eyes on. Drinking in his memory tonight.