A gargantuan, mind-altering comedy about the Pursuit of Happiness in America Set in an addicts' halfway house and a tennis academy, and featuring the most endearingly screwed-up family to come along in recent fiction, Infinite Jest explores essential questions about what entertainment is and... read more
Chronology's unimportant: this novel details the distinct but related worlds of the Enfield Tennis Academy, where teens get the life sucked out of them with the hope of making it to "The Show", and where seventeen year-old Hal Incandenza undergoes a metamorphosis at the hands of drug addiction... read more (warning: may contain spoilers)
“I am in here.”Hal Incandenza
“I don't hate myself. I just wanted out. I didn't want to play anymore is all.”Katherine Ann Gompert (page 70)
“That God might regard the issue of whether you believe there's a God or not as fairly low on his/her/its list of things s/he/it's interested in re you.”(page 205)
“It's not wanting to hurt myself it's want to <i>not hurt</i>.”Katherine Ann Gompert (p78)
“These worst mornings with cold floors and hot windows and merciless light—the soul’s certainty that the day will have to be not traversed but sort of climbed, vertically, and then that going to sleep again at the end of it will be like falling, again, off something tall and sheer.”Orin Incandenza
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