Worth the multiple months of reading. Entertaining, even in its own right, and will definitely be placed among the best novels of all time, if it hasn't been already.

Best book I ever read and it gets better each time I read it again.

Just reread this for the third time....it is worth the time to read this massive book.

You meet Hal Incandenza at the beginning, in hell. You meet Gately about halfway through, on his way out of hell. The rest of the book tells how Hal wound up there, and why Gately is willing to do anything at all to get out. There is a lot of associated cerebral razzle-dazzle, all functional and interesting, but basically serving to dilute the central story enough that it doesn't hurt you so bad you can't finish.

I'm on page 240

Just took this out and I am intimidated yet intrigued by the mere heft of this book. Looking foward to trudging my way through it.

a great example of someone trying to write in an original voice and failing to the extent that he ruins whatever merrit the story may have. over indulgent, big words strung together in elementry fashion with no purpose.

I'm re-reading this (again) in anticipation of DFW's posthumous novel, The Pale King, to be published in April. Truly the best book of all time (B.B.O.A.T.) I'm actually reading it as an ebook, and it is definitely the way to go for a novel of this size. The footnotes are linked, which makes it easier as well.

I really shoulda loved this book. I mean the guy's a genius and all! Not to mention all the comparisons to Gaddis and Pynchon (whom I love). But, alas, this is a pretentious gaggle of five dollar words strung together with, as near as I can tell, the sole purpose of dazzling the reader. OK. I'm dazzled. Now I'm gonna go read something else. Yawn.

Infinite Jest is one of my favourite books. Wallace's insight into addictions of all kinds is phenomenal, and his writing style is incomparable.