I've only ever heard of Infinite Jest but have so far resisted the endless peer pressure to read it. The kind of people who like that kind of thing seem to be into Pynchon and Eco, and I get the sense that Wallace is a lite-r version, which makes me strongly suspect I will hate him.
(I get their cultural references and that's nice, and I'm sure they're fun guys at parties, but out of the various books I've tried, only in Name of the Rose have I been able to give a damn about a character or plot of theirs.)
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Date: 2010-01-07 02:00 pm (UTC)(I get their cultural references and that's nice, and I'm sure they're fun guys at parties, but out of the various books I've tried, only in Name of the Rose have I been able to give a damn about a character or plot of theirs.)
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