http://www.shanerichmond.net/?p=237 Tue, 17 Aug 2010 10:41:11 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 http://www.shanerichmond.net/?p=237&cpage=1#comment-49724 David Foster Wallace, 1962-2008 » mathewingram.com/work | Sun, 14 Sep 2008 15:56:59 +0000 http://www.shanerichmond.net/?p=237#comment-49724 [...] For me, Infinite Jest — which took me months to get through, not because it was hard to read, but because it was so enjoyable and the writing was so dense and rich and multi-layered (something Shane Richmond mentions as well in his post about Wallace’s death) — was up there in the top 10 novels of the past few decades, almost on par with David Eggers’ incredible book, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius. Eggers and Wallace were very similar in some ways, and as more than one person has noted their writing was a lot like hypertext, except instead of Web links there were multiple footnotes. [...] [...] For me, Infinite Jest — which took me months to get through, not because it was hard to read, but because it was so enjoyable and the writing was so dense and rich and multi-layered (something Shane Richmond mentions as well in his post about Wallace’s death) — was up there in the top 10 novels of the past few decades, almost on par with David Eggers’ incredible book, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius. Eggers and Wallace were very similar in some ways, and as more than one person has noted their writing was a lot like hypertext, except instead of Web links there were multiple footnotes. [...]

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