Grrrreat GIFT IDEAS!
PetPix PORTAL
Pawsitive FEEDBACK!
Gift CERTIFICATES?
|
 List Price: $17.99 Price: $14.99 You Save: $3.00 (17%)Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.083 Edition: 10 Anv Format: Bargain Price Label: Back Bay Books Manufacturer: Back Bay Books Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 1104 Publication Date: November 13, 2006 Publisher: Back Bay Books Studio: Back Bay Books Related Items:
Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display Editorial Review: Amazon.com Review: In a sprawling, wild, super-hyped magnum opus, David Foster Wallace fulfills the promise of his precocious novel The Broom of the System. Equal parts philosophical quest and screwball comedy, Infinite Jest bends every rule of fiction, features a huge cast and multilevel narrative, and questions essential elements of American culture - our entertainments, our addictions, our relationships, our pleasures, our abilities to define ourselves. Product Description: In a sprawling, wild, super-hyped magnum opus, David Foster Wallace fulfills the promise of his precocious novelThe Broom of the System.Equal parts philosophical quest and screwball comedy, Infinite Jest bends every rule of fiction, features a huge cast and multilevel narrative, and questions essential elements of American culture - our entertainments, our addictions, our relationships, our pleasures, our abilities to define ourselves. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Possibly the best book ever written.In any case, that's what I tell people who ask me which book is my favorite: this happens more often than you'd think, as I work in a bookstore. I first read Infinite Jest in the middle of high school: it was assigned reading for one of my classes [an optional class, but I'd thought the book was interesting, and the teacher who taught that class had given me a hearty recommendation]. I read it during every waking moment I could, straight through, for three weeks: flipping back and forth between ... Read More Rating:  - Great book; arrived in shoddy conditionOf course this is an excellent book for anyone familiar with David Foster Wallace...my only gripe is that (like many other times) book arrived in the mail looking like it had been kicked around and stomped on before it got to my door. Book appears to be in far-from-new condition. This is a battle I have fought with Amazon many times (although I rolled the dice and ordered Genesis 1970-1975 and had to admit it was in excellent and new condition but only after I had sent an e-mail after ordering it to be ... Read More Rating: - Beyond BeliefWhat a wonderful, terrible, brilliant, horrible, frustrating, fascinating story. Jesus wept. It's also heart-felt, humorous, whimsical, and a masterpiece. Jesus smiled. Rating:  - Too long, too self absorbed David Wallace may have been a genius, but even geniuses need good editors. This 1000 page book needed a TEAM of editors. It is way too long and self involved a novel to be given anything more than a couple of stars. If you are interested in what all the fuss is about, be sure you know you will be reading it for a while, and may find it less frustrating to take it out of your local library. Rating: - Infinite JestI had read David Foster Wallce previously. He had authored pieces in Harper's for years. I was saddened by his taking his own life, but upon his death I decided to read as much of his that I could. I.J., as his fans call it, is the first actual example of post modernism that I can relate to another person and explain its basis. I have read all the post mod classics, "White Noise" "Underworld" et al, but until I.J. I was unable to relate it to anyone. I.J. is an experience in reading. It ... Read More 
|
||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||
