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Slate's Audio Book Club: Infinite Jest, by David Foster Wallace

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The Bus Effect of Rabbit Run

I think you said best what's the ideal effect of this book, which is that you do walk out of it looking at things and thinking about things differently. You know, they're just very, very, very few books, even good books, where that, that have that power. I mean, my favorite thing that Wallace ever wrote was this, is a story that, I really am not an ideal Wallace reader in any sense, but... How do you mean? Well, just in the sense that the kind of overwritten quality of it is just not my kind of cup of tea. And he was interested in filling this thing to the top, basically, and putting in everything he

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