I would, in fact, go so far as to say that Infinite Jest is one of the very few novels for which the phrase ‘not worth the paper it’s written on’ has real meaning in at least an ecological sense but to resort to such hyperbole would be to fall into the rut that characterises many reviews of this novel.Īs the preceding paragraph should make clear, I found Infinite Jest immensely unsatisfactory. Other words I might use include bloated, boring, gratuitous, and-perhaps especially-uncontrolled. What makes the book’s success even more noteworthy is that it is, in a word, terrible. The novel has moved some 60,000 copies and racked up a stack of glowing reviews as thick as it is. “If nothing else, the success of Infinite Jest is proof that the Great American Hype Machine can still work wonders, in terms of sales.
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