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Sup broom-goons, been reading through DFW's first novel this week and I'm about 300 pages in. It seems much more Pynchon flavored than Infinite Jest and is simultaneously easier to read but less accessible in my opinion. The way he uses dialogue only chapters and continuations of conversations/monologues isn't as satisfying, fragmentation-wise, as the footnotes in IJ (but still good, don't get me wrong). Characters are also largely vehicles for philosophy ideas/references, which I don't mind too much. I love Rick Vigorous's stories and dreams and how they reflect the characters in the book. The tree-frog lady god drat  I also love that meta-geography seems to be a Wallace staple. This is scratching my DFW itch very nicely.
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