What do you get when you ask idiots to review the first page of Infinite Jest?

At least Woody Allen sees something in it.

Man, even Woody Allen fell for it.

Thing is, it would've been funnier if the asker was doing this intentionally to score inexperienced/funny/clueless reviews. However, I figure he just found a good book and plagiarized it for Yahoo! Answers attention.

Hilarious either way.

I'm pretty sure he was being a troll intentionally, man.

I knew impersonating celebrities was big on Twitter, but I never knew it was like that on Yahoo Answers.

Yeah, but you never know. People attain new levels of jackassery and stupidity on that site. I just wish it wasn't resolved, so I could post a comment like: "I'm afraid that this is a terrible start to a novel, and would certainly never evolve into a timeless work of modern fiction."

My friend used to work for a horror fiction mag and some nimrod submitted a story written by a big time horror author to prove they had no taste or something. Either they rejected it (and the douchebag sent a ha ha! letter) or my friend recognized the story. Regardless, he thinks it's one of the weaker stories by the author so he probably would have rejected it anyway.

I know people have also done similar things with submitting classical works of literature to publishers and getting some sort of cheap thrill if the publisher was unfamiliar with the books and rejected them. Although maybe they were familiar with the books and just sent out a form rejection because they didn't want to deal with the faux writer's nonsense. Also, most classical works of literature are likely to get rejected anyway these days considering they're archaic.

I tried to come up with a horribly tasteless joke about David Foster Wallace but couldn't think of anything so instead here's my favorite Princess Di joke:

Q: What does world hunger and a Mercedes have in common?

A: Diana couldn't stop either.