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David Foster Wallace's Infinite jest: a reader's guide Stephen Burn
Publisher: Continuum International Publishing Group

I had ordered the book from Amazon.com after hearing of David Foster Wallace's death. So instead of menacing the reader in the old Joycean way, Wallace chums it up whenever the technical stuff appears, acting like he really doesn't mean to discourage anyone. I read the first chapter and decided that I wasn't going to be able to get through it without a reader's guide. Swapping lecture theatre dread for tutorial group Most David Foster Wallace fans have a self-mortifying attitude that goes something like this: “I don't feel I'm even close to understanding Infinite Jest, but I don't want to think that's deliberate. The Stand by Stephen King; The Hobbit by J.R.R. In my 20's, fresh off my first read of David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest, I bought a copy of Gravity's Rainbow. New readers should turn to pages 343-374 in the pictured edition for don gately's experience of support meetings, addiction, and the unbelievable quotidien struggle for redemption. This week I'm tackling Infinite Jest again, with the help of Stephen Burns's reader's guide. Hipster's Guide to What Should I Read Next. There's so much that could be said about this book. I began reading Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace around October 2008. Even before being totally blown away by Infinite Jest, I'd already considered David Foster Wallace as my favorite writer. Over the last several weeks, Book Riot compiled a list of readers' favorite novels.