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Broom of the System

The Broom of the System by David Foster Wallace

May 3, 2022 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

Broom of the System – 4/5 Stars This is David Foster Wallace’s first novel, the original draft of which was his thesis. The novel itself is sophomoric, for a first novel (if that’s possible) and both precocious and impressive. At times, it really sings, and at other times it’s too goofy for words and too clever by half. It’s not ever boring, and it’s not ever dumb, but at times it’s very very very young feeling. It’s so clear that in this novel David Foster […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: David Foster Wallace

vel veeter's CBR14 Review No:189 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: David Foster Wallace ·
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A Supposedly Fun Thing I will Never Do Again (Again x2)

A Supposedly Fun Thing I will Never Do Again by David Foster Wallace

April 23, 2022 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

The essays in this collection tend to be long, as there’s not nearly as many here as in Consider the Lobster, especially given that this book is longer. But they spend more time. There’s two very good tennis essays, one a memoir essay of playing while a tornado is brewing. There’s a very long discussion of television and postmodern fiction, in which Wallace admits that the ways in which television seems to absorb culture and play around with it makes the job of writing metafiction […]

Filed Under: Non-Fiction Tagged With: David Foster Wallace

vel veeter's CBR14 Review No:179 · Genres: Non-Fiction · Tags: David Foster Wallace ·
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Consider the Lobster – David Foster Wallace (2005)

Consider the Lobster by David Foster Wallace

May 27, 2021 by vel veeter 1 Comment

This is a reread from years ago when this book first came out, and I think for the most part Wallace’s nonfiction is going to stick around in our consciousness longer than his fiction. For one, it’s definitely more accessible, but mainly it’s that desire he seems to have to be right on a given topic, but to earn that rightness through clear and sober investigation. This collection is anchored of course by the title essay, and it’s the more famous of the collection because […]

Filed Under: Non-Fiction Tagged With: David Foster Wallace

vel veeter's CBR13 Review No:238 · Genres: Non-Fiction · Tags: David Foster Wallace ·
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Smile Through the Pain

Oblivion by David Foster Wallace

April 26, 2021 by blauracke Leave a Comment

A boy is so engrossed in his daydreaming that he misses his substitute teacher having a nervous breakdown in front of the class and possibly becoming a danger to the students. A market researcher reflects on his job during the testing of a new chocolate bar by a focus group, while outside a strange figure is climbing up the side of the building. A couple seeks help in a sleep clinic for the, possibly imagined, snoring of the husband. These are just three of the […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Short Stories Tagged With: David Foster Wallace

blauracke's CBR13 Review No:10 · Genres: Fiction, Short Stories · Tags: David Foster Wallace ·
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Plateaus of Spasmodic Weirdness

The Broom of the System by David Foster Wallace

October 19, 2020 by blauracke Leave a Comment

Lenore Beadsman’s life becomes very complicated all of a sudden when her great-grandmother and twenty-five other people vanish from a nursing home, her cockatiel starts talking without pause, and the telephones at the company she works for go crazy. While looking for her missing great-grandmother, she has to confront other members of her family and her family’s history, and acknowledge the lack of control she has over her own life. Lenore is sort of a blank canvas that others project their needs on, for instance, […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: cbr12bingo, David Foster Wallace, orange

blauracke's CBR12 Review No:55 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: cbr12bingo, David Foster Wallace, orange ·
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I am seated in an office, surrounded by heads and bodies.

Inifinite Jest by David Foster Wallace

May 8, 2020 by vel veeter 3 Comments

If I go searching for “White Whale” books online I mostly find lists of books about whales, which is disappointing. For me, this is one of the White Whales of White Whales for a lot of people. For one, it’s popular to talk about reading this book, and it’s equally popular to talk about avowedly NOT reading this book. I learned about this book for the first time in college when I was discovering such books. At the same time I also became seriously interested […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: David Foster Wallace, infinite jest

vel veeter's CBR12 Review No:247 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: David Foster Wallace, infinite jest ·
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