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

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The Obsessive Compulsive Gift

A lot of the book is incredibly, the passages are amazing. I didn't actually find it that funny, but a lot of people find it very funny. It's almost painful because you do think like how can a person like this exist in the world. He takes everything apart to such an extent. And instead of just accepting these human relationships and just the sort of assumptions of a university and the way a class works,.

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