The one book that Adam Levin’s book The Instructions is always compared to is David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest. Unfortunately I haven’t read Infinite Jest (honest, it’s on my to do list, I just haven’t gotten to it yet), so I can’t tell you how accurate it is. But, if it is half the book that The Instructions is, then it must be amazing. This is Adam Levin’s first book and it took him 9 years to write it. Partially because it is over 1000 pages and partially because it is a very, very dense book. So, what is The Instructions?

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