I don't even know what to do with this one.
It took forever for me to read. I must have picked it up and put it down 5 or 6 times before I finally just powered through it. Was it worth it? I'm not quite sure.
There are some passages that are so powerful and thought provoking that I just had to stop and consider for a minute. It put into words thoughts I didn't even know I had.
On the other hand, there are some passages so pointless and confusing, that I still don't understand what they were doing after reading thoughts and synopses.
I will say that DFW wrote some passages that were scarily preminiscient (is that a word?) of our current American political climate. Selling football stadium names to corporate entities (hello U.S. Bank Stadium and Target Field down the street....). A entertainer-turned-"politician" who runs for office as a joke and eventually becomes president (to the vexation of both major political parties) .... and who eventually becomes dictator and sells time to the highest corporate bidder. Video phones and a psuedo-"instagram" obsessed culture. People becoming so overwhelmed by the choices of a psuedo "nextflix" entertainment system.
There's a lot going on.
I'll need a few days to decompress from this one.