Humorous novel with high WTF-factor. The title is correct, without taking into account other meanings; the book is mostly joke, & can be read infinitely. Infinite Jest seems to mostly be about drugs, being on drugs, & getting off drugs, not in that order. It's also about Boston, which is depicted as a very shitty place (to be fair, this aligns with pretty much everything else I've heard about Boston). An interesting side-theme of Infinite Jest is it's more or less correct depiction of netflix, from back in the early to mid 90s, without predicting any other aspect of the 21st Century (or even late 20th century) internet. This book keeps the reader guessing to the very end, and beyond! In a little bit I'll start looking up reviews & author interviews to try to make sense of this book, & eventually I'll just re-read it to get some more clues & maybe form a working theory of what exactly is going on here. I tried to read Infinite Jest twice before managing to finish it this time. The previous 2 times reading it were enjoyable, but felt impossibly daunting, and like I had to make a determined commitment to only read in very long uninterrupted blocks, but this time, I mostly read while eating dinner, which is strange considering how disgusting & repulsive some of the images in Infinite Jest are. I think the real issue is that I needed to get used to the style (which I feel like I'm semi-consciously imitating right now), & get used to flipping to the back to read the endnotes, some of which constitute their own chapters. The style kind of forms a mystery in itself. What is it indicating about the narrator? Is it supposed to be a clue to who the narrator is or are? Might recommend to friends in the hopes that I can get their takes on this book a few years down the line. In the meantime, I'll try to read Naked Lunch there's any obvious influences there (i'm guessing there are).