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I've mostly enjoyed my time with this collection but I wouldn't recommend it as a place to start with Wallace. I have read a few pages of the final story/novella and I am optimistic regarding its quality but it is clearly doing some serious, referential metafiction for which I am unprepared. I will get back to it once I've read Barth's "Lost in the Funhouse". For now I rate this at 3 stars on the goodreads scale

I've mostly enjoyed my time with this collection but I wouldn't recommend it as a place to start with Wallace. I have read a few pages of the final story/novella and I am optimistic regarding its quality but it is clearly doing some serious, referential metafiction for which I am unprepared. I will get back to it once I've read Barth's "Lost in the Funhouse". For now I rate this at 3-4 stars on the goodreads scale.