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by David Foster Wallace
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Infinite Joe
Infinite Joe rated it 12 years ago
I don't think I could ever fully articulate why I enjoy reading David Foster Wallace so much. Some of it has to do with the topics he writes about, some of it with the various and often deeply personal themes that are present in his writing. A little of it has to do with the structure of his indiv...
The Review Man
The Review Man rated it 13 years ago
Oblivion is a collection of eight of David Foster Wallace's short stories whose themes run the gamut from our entertainment-addled society to suicide to the act of writing itself. Wallace continually uses unreliable narrators and 'friend-of-a-friend' literary devices to make his point. And while the...
amandawallwin
amandawallwin rated it 16 years ago
These stories were so much smarter than me.
The Library of Babel
The Library of Babel rated it 18 years ago
Quoting another Goodreader comment:"This man is too clever for me".I'm not ironic at this time: I really think that DFW is a genius. And yet, like many geniuses he needs to focus more his undeniable talent as a novelist. I'm not an English mother tongue and this probably explains why I've found Fost...
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