First, I find the topics to be very enlightening w/r/t (hah, stole that from DFW) Infinite Jest (which I did enjoy when I read it a few years ago). Second, I wanted to make the global comment that I enjoy reading DFW in large part because his work is just as impressive as someone like Martin Amis, ...
he picked up a book. he read the book. it was him all over. the best version of himself! and the worst.what is postmodernism, really? is it a way to understand the world, to define the world, to separate yourself from the world... when you are actually a part of that world? a part of the so-called p...
I read Infinite Jest a few months ago, my first written by David Foster Wallace, and came to really enjoy his writing, as well as the story itself. After I read this book, I came to really enjoy the man himself. This book is a collection of essays ranging over a variety of topics, including tennis...
I skipped most of the David Lynch essay and didn't read the Michael Joyce one at all, but I was really only interested in the state fair and cruise ship essays anyway. Both of which were brilliant and funny.
An almost impossible book to rate and review, because I only read about a third of it, but what I read, I loved.The title essay is an incredibly amusing essay on David Foster Wallace's experiences on a week long cruise in the Caribbean... only, the cruise could really be anywhere, because as far as ...
Although I really enjoyed the title essay and would rate that 4 stars, each of the other essays I found myself starting and then quitting. I hated The Pale King too, maybe I just don't "get" this author.
I covered many of my feelings and thoughts about this book (and countless other details) in the following article you may, if you are interested, read here:http://mewlhouse.hubpages.com/hub/Notes-From-A-Complete-Stranger
"a Kilroyishly surreal quality"...I fell for DFW in the footnotes.How was I to know? I don't read footnotes. When I edited a couple of books, I told the contributors, in draconian terms, that if the information wasn't important enough to include in their main text, delete the footnote; if it was, in...
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