Grant Oesterling

Brilliant, exceedingly clever, and achingly poignant - Infinite Jest might be the greatest book I have ever read. While it is definitely super long, it is much more readable than I had been lead to believe. I can't wait to read his other stuff

This book has made me seriously reevaluate the way that I live my life.

just a real joy to read. hilarious, clever, biting: the truest embodiment of postmodernism i have read thus far. and after reading DFW's (brilliant) “E Unibus Pluram” essay where he breaks down the “Most Photographed Barn in America” scene, I know I only got like half of the deeper meanings here. looking forward to rereading this again and again in the years to come

side note: really love the idea of a supermarket-as-sensory-experience. also Murray is one of my favorite characters in fiction, ever.

4.5

wow

i need more sci-fi lovecraftian psychological horror in my life

beautiful

basically seems like the Coens just used this book as the screenplay for the movie; beat for beat almost identical to the movie until the end

reads like a demented Hemingway - simplistic, but profoundly beautiful, poetic, and dark. really cannot wait to check out McCarthy's other stuff

recommend pairing with Brian Eno - Ambient 4: On Land