Il re pallido
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9788806203351 (8806203355)
Publish date: October 31st 2011
Publisher: Einaudi
Pages no: 714
Edition language: Italian
In parts this feels like a novel written on post-it notes being randomly placed all over some institutions matte yellow walls by a horde of bored and mentally unstable IRS employees. I quite enjoyed it.
How do you review an unfinished book? How do you even start to review an unfinished DFW book about magical tax agents and boredom?I think I start by saying that the book I read is quite a different book to the book that DFW apparently wanted to write, if you believe the endnotes. The eight pages at ...
Man is this ever unfinished.
My quest to read every last word written by DFW continues. Infinite Jest, This is Water, A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again, and now The Pale King have been checked off the list.I feel bad for giving this only 4 stars, considering the reason why it remains an unfinished novel, but still, it...
this is the review that got me on to goodreads.com essentially the reviewer is admitting that hard-core use of hard stimulants is necessary to get through this work, but if you commit to this course of action, the results can be rewarding! "Nomen-Mutatio," one thinks, is mere cognomen. but I digress...
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