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There is a certain amount of absurdism that you need to buy into, but once you do there is so much to the book (it's also quite funny). DFW dives into themes of addiction, mental health, modernism, etc. He clearly struggled with a lot of these ideas in his own life, and he captures it so well in the cast of characters he creates. I personally found the first 250 pages a little tough, but once I got through that it became hard to put it down.