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“A blockbuster comedy…No other writer now working communicates so dazzlingly what life will feel like the day after tomorrow.”
— Elle
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“In a sprawling, wild, super-hyped magnum opus, David Foster Wallace fulfills the promise of his precocious novel The Broom of the System. Equal parts philosophical quest and screwball comedy, Infinite Jest bends every rule of fiction, features a huge cast and multilevel narrative, and questions essential elements of American culture—our entertainments, our addictions, our relationships, our pleasures, our abilities to define ourselves.”
— Amazon.com, editorial review
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“Uproarious…It shows off Wallace as one of the big talents of his generation, a writer of virtuoic talents who can seemingly do anything.”
— New York Times
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“Pratt is
a startlingly good narrator, dry and expressive, with the kind of vocal control
that evokes dozens of characters with only slight but very distinctive
variations of accent and effect. It’s a performance up there with Jim Dale’s
revered reading of the Harry Potter series or the Shakespearean actor Anton
Lesser’s turn in The Old Curiosity Shop
but cooler and perfectly American. Pratt hears the humor in Wallace’s work and
lets you in on the joke without resorting to overheated wackiness. His control and stamina are impressive.”
— New York Times Book Review (audio review)
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“Truly remarkable…What weird fun Infinite Jest is to read.”
— Newsweek
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“Spectacularly good…It’s as though Paul Bunyan had joined the NFL or Wittgenstein had gone on Jeopardy!Infinite Jest is that colossally disruptive.”
— New York
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“Brashly funny and genuinely moving…This one is worth the long haul…Infinite Jest will confirm the hopes of those who called Wallace a genius.”
— Chicago Tribune
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“Brilliant…There’s no doubt that Wallace’s talent is immense and his imagination limitless…A consistently innovative, sensitive, and intelligent writer.”
— San Francisco Chronicle
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“Diving into the riches of Infinite Jest is an exhilarating, breath-taking experience. The book teems with so much life and death, so much hilarity and pain, so much gusto in the face of despair that one cheers for the future of our literature. Rarely does one read such audaciously inventive prose…A triumphant, high-energy linguistic rush.”
— Newsday
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“A big, brilliant book…Wallace is a mesmerizing storyteller.”
— New York Observer
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“Challenging and provocative.”
— Orlando Sentinel
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“Wallace offers huge entertainment…Only Gaddis and Pynchon have this range. So brilliant you need sunglasses to read it, but it has a heart as well as a brain. Infinite Jest is both a vast, comic epic and a profound study of the post-modern condition.”
— Review of Contemporary Fiction
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“Baroque subplots, zany political satire, morbid, cerebral humor, and astonishing range of cultural references…Ingenious and often outrageously funny.”
— Publishers Weekly
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“The author has a wicked sense of humor and a wonderful eye for capturing the odd juxtapositions of modern life…Distinct, idiomatic, wild, and crazy, this book is destined to have a cult following.”
— Library Journal