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Tennis great Billie Jean King won 12 Grand Slam singles titles
In a matter of days, the chosen few Wii owners (the system is still nigh impossible to find at a fair price) started to discuss the physical risks inherent in such a revolutionary style of play. Players of the complimentary launch title “Wii Sports,�...
It's possible, barely, to reduce the novel to a finite plot description. Hal Incandenza is a gifted, troubled student at a high-level Boston-area tennis academy founded by his late father. Down the road is a drug-rehab center inhabited by an assortment of seedy and desperate characters...
But it's a mistake to lump Infinite Jest in with its successors. Think of it instead in terms of its forebears. Think of it as a Dickens novel. It's a book about two socially disparate groups--the tennis players and the drug addicts--and the various plot strands...
As for its length, well, Infinite Jest is about the way we fill up our loneliness with obsessions--notably tennis and movies--and addictions--notably drugs--and how those obsessions and addictions leave us only lonelier still. Those 1,079 discursive, hilarious, occasionally infuriating pages stand as the output of...