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Bennett is Currently Reading

Bennett is currently reading

The Crying of Lot 49

by Thomas Pynchon

bookshelves: novella, postmodern, pynchon, on-my-real-shelf, california, currently-reading

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Oblivion

by David Foster Wallace

bookshelves: short-stories, on-my-real-shelf, david-foster-wallace, postmodern, depression, currently-reading

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Transforming the Irvine Ranch (American Real Estate Society Book Series)

by C. Michael Stockstill

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“You suck, surprising no one!!!! If bad was a boot, you'd fit it!!!! You're a stupid poo-poo head! I had sexual relations with your mother! Your mother was not that good in bed! You, sir, are a wretched soul! I am rubber, you are glue!”
― Bryan Lee O'Malley, Scott Pilgrim vs. The World

tags: humor

48 likes

“What goes on inside is just too fast and huge and all interconnected for words to do more than barely sketch the outlines of at most one tiny little part of it at any given instant.”
― David Foster Wallace, Oblivion

tags: beautiful-sadness, et-cetera-et-cetera, good-old-neon

376 likes

“Somehow the pantsless gay man is not bringing the romance, Scott.”
― Bryan Lee O'Malley, Scott Pilgrim Gets It Together

tags: humor

29 likes

“Mario, what do you get when you cross an insomniac, an unwilling agnostic and a dyslexic?"

"I give."

"You get someone who stays up all night torturing himself mentally over the question of whether or not there's a dog.”
― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

tags: agnosticism, dogs, dyslexia, god, humor, insomnia, pain

1379 likes

“The truth will set you free. But not until it is finished with you.”
― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

tags: freedom, truth

3053 likes

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