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Originally Posted by lucyrulesok

tl;dr: Infinite Jest - it should be shit but it's not

neither tl nor dr!-- it was a nice, fresh, non-pretentious review. i won't say it makes me want to read it but it helps tilt me in favor of doing that.

and now for some pretentious thoughts (sorry i can't help myself):

1) ulysses also works that way. for nabokov it was just a story of a man being cuckolded. it's true the story is not that much viewed like that, but nabokov was probably jealous (or didn't care). still, the details make it come alive in such a massive way it's no way just about that.

2) did you ever read the glass bead game? back in prehistoric times i was enthralled by hesse (demian + steppenwolf + other witings like his essays & beneath the wheel).but the glass bead game didn't work for me so i dropped it a quarter of the way in. i'm asking because i'm curious and at this point i wouldn't mind spoilers ha ha.