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A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments:
"I used to think I was pretty smart. I did the "gifted" program in elementary school, took advanced classes in high school, went to college, graduated with honors. Watched critically acclaimed films, read critically acclaimed novels, even took in the "
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"A piece which critically engages with DFW's essay, "E Unibus Pluram: Television and U.S. Fiction," an essay which I think is central to understanding DFW and yet each time I've read it, most recently in its Both Flesh And Not incarnation, leaves me w"
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A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments:
"Goodness gracious. As much as I revere Wallace’s fiction—his attempt to rescue American culture from the despairing morass of self-aware ironical knowingness—his nonfiction is in another league. The sheer cinematic exuberance, the “floating eye” qual"
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Geoff's review
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A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments:
"This, my first experience reading David Foster Wallace, disabused me of a few prejudices that in retrospect seem shamefully naive, one of which being that objects of the American Media Hype Machine are necessarily mediocre. I believed that there had "
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Since this book of 80 years ago, much literature has been written on the topic of "outsider" (e.g., The Collector), so I rate it 4 instead of 5 stars. Still a good read for its simplicity, which more long-winded writers would obfuscate. In Kafka's The ...more |
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“I would define the poetic effect as the capacity that a text displays for continuing to generate different readings, without ever being completely consumed.”
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“Our reading was subversive, and we knew it...
I was now believing books more than I believed what I saw and heard...
What I sought in books was imagination. It was depth, depth of thought and feeling...
What I sought in books was a world (that)... actually matched the exaltation of the interior life.”
― An American Childhood
I was now believing books more than I believed what I saw and heard...
What I sought in books was imagination. It was depth, depth of thought and feeling...
What I sought in books was a world (that)... actually matched the exaltation of the interior life.”
― An American Childhood
“The race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, but to those who can see it coming and jump aside.”
― The Rum Diary
― The Rum Diary
“Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don't need.”
― Fight Club
― Fight Club
“It has always seemed strange to me...The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second.”
― Cannery Row
― Cannery Row