Tish Grier’s Reviews > Infinite Jest > Status Update

this book consumes the reader while the reader consumes it. Annular, solipsistic, ONANian.

This book is crazy--in a good way. Chock full of every narrative style. More acronyms than a govt agency. Yet so grounded that I am not clucking my tongue, thinking"I hate reading about rich people's problems." Nobody seems economically rich. But certainly rich in the life experience category. Also, I find I don't need to read most of the footnotes because I already get it. Except the footnote on Himself's films