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Any fans of Infinite Jest (1996)? (self.literature)

submitted 10 months ago by PP_BOY_ to c/[email protected]

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Title is a bit redundant; I can't see how anybody could read the book and not come away as a fan, but I'm just wondering if there's anyone on Lemmy who's read it.

What do you think? I'd love to meet some other fans of DFW.

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[–] PP_BOY_ 2 points 10 months ago

Great points! There's a bit around the midway point where he plots out the rise and fall of video calling and the development of profile pictures and beauty filters.... twenty years before it happened. It was at that part of reading that I knew Wallace was a special kind of author.