What the absolute fuck am I reading?
I have to consult a reading guide for every chapter I read because the book is completely incomprehensible.
THERE ARE NOTES WITHIN THE NOTES, WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS SHIT? HOUSE OF LEAVES?
I have only read 68 pages and I have no idea what's going on. Who the fuck are all these characters? Why is this shit over 1000 pages? What am I supposed to keep an eye on when none of the chapters are in chronological order? Who am I supposed to care about? Absolute clusterfuck of a book.
The only thing I've enjoyed reading so far is the chapter about that guy who smokes a fuck ton of weed. The rest is complete gibberish to me.
Did I fall for a meme when I got reccomend this pile of dogshit of a book?
Is it called Infinite Jest because the joke is whoever got tricked into reading this shit?
What am I supposed to see in this book?
Whatever makes you feel good about it. It's like those magic eye puzzles in book form, but not really. Wallace was going for some recursiveness where the book you're reading is symbolic of the macguffin whatever in order to induce ego death or something but I didn't really find it to be very well done and then they didn't bother editing it "because he's a genius." It's just a mess. You'd be better off listening his "this is water" speech. That's about the only salvageable bit really. I didn't find that any of the characters had like any individual voices to them or anything. It was just a real disappointment and most of the people who voluntarily bring it up in conversation probably haven't read it.
Edit: not kidding about the editing btw