I've been treating myself to rereads of books and authors I love, and I just reached to the Wallace shelf the other day with my eyes closed, so this got read again, and only for the second complete (cover-to-cover) time since I bought it because I didn't like it loads the first time. Honestly, if it...
It is hard to consider this collection of "interviews" without considering the author's subsequent suicide. Each of the stories concerns a very educated very conflicted man generally dealing with his relationships with a woman or women in general. The voice throughout is colloquial and often power...
I forgot, going into Brief Interviews with Hideous Men, about the experimental David Foster Wallace. After some time away from his work, I remembered the most distinctive parts - footnotes/endnotes, long recursive discussions about sincerity vs. appearance, elevated vocabulary - and forgot his abil...
Read this. Now. And if you can't read it, listen to it as an audio book. That's what I did (read by the man himself). Unbelievable. If you go the audio book route - you may just end up sitting in your parked car for 45 minutes unable to tear yourself away before the story's over.
Brief Interviews with Hideous Men is Wallace's way of communicating what a lesser person would deem incommunicable. These men are hideous not for some exceptional flaws in their characters but for a universally hated virtue, that is, honesty. They lie, cheat, obsess, fornicate and what not, like all...
There are a lot of good reviews about this book, and the reviewers can all do a better job than me in going into the specifics. I will agree that although this book is really good (with the exception of "Tri-Stan: I Sold Sissee Nar to Ecko"), it isn't DFW's best. I don't agree, though, with those ...
Don't want to dwell on this too much or personalise the review, only...Regardless of what you think of his other work, or the types of books you like, you are a human living in the present who needs to READ THIS.Actually I just checked and there are reviews giving this less than 5 stars so apparentl...
Read the first 3 short stories & started the 4th one.... But, nah... I'm not into it right now. It just isn't appealing to me (though I did like "Forever Overhead").
a great introduction to the author, particularly for those readers who quiver in fear at the idea of Infinite Jest and A Supposedly Fun Thing. the language is unsurprisingly brilliant, the ideas at times playful and at other times fairly heavy, and the various portraits fascinating and often repulsi...
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