Sooooo this book is considered a classic? Pure genius or sumthing? I'm afraid I don't see that. The book isn't rubbish, sure, it's long and full of many many characters, tough to read and not well written like, but I did enjoy the story. Being over 1000 pages it didn't drag once.

I can see it is one of those books that will produce endless conversations as people see things in their own way, it's probably produced other books discussing it and I'm sure many Eng lit uni students have had to deal with it at some point. The feeling I got from the book was DFW's own insecure feelings coming to the surface, it feels like he doesn't want you to like the book he deliberately makes it a tough one to read. The long lists, many acronyms, the almost 400 endnotes and suddenly jumping somewhere else in the story just as you were starting to enjoy things. For me though the most annoying thing was the characters ignoring each other, so caught up in their own little world that they end up have different conversations at the same time. So rude!

The book is a mixture of things, dystopian where the years are sponsored by a product?...I think. At times it is also a comedy, I'm not sure if I should have been laughing as much as I did when the kid gets his forehead frozen to the window.

If you want to read a book that is at times depressing, features tennis, wheelchair bound assassins, drugs and endnotes then pick up this good book and give it a go.