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David Foster Wallace

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He gets it.

Exquisite.  1100 pages of nothing but plot!  The same ugly, lonely, overthinking human trapped in a hundred different lives.

Plus it’s fun to read it on the bus, as people watch you track down footnotes within footnotes.

It wasn’t bad, I guess, but it definitely did not cure my DFW jones once Infinite Jest ran dry.

shipping-out

(aka “A Supposedly Fun Thing Thing I’ll Never Do Again”, available online for free at Harper’s)

What most people have read by DFW.  An article he wrote for Harper’s, deadly funny, do read it.

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Of course, my new favorite comic “pictures for sad children” sums it up pretty well.

Written by famousbirds

December 3, 2008 at 2:51 am

Posted in Books

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