Caleb Thrasher’s Reviews > The Pale King > Status Update

people online saying this book is boring and that’s bc a major theme is boredom but thats So Lame and when this book injects a boring moment or quote one of the characters always comments on it
not nearly as hard to follow as i thought
people make DFW out to be some impossible literary puzzle
i think reading james joyce would kill the average american

“look for us to elect someone who can cast himself as a rebel, maybe even a cowboy, but who deep down we’ll know is a bureaucratic creature who will operate inside the government mechanism instead of banging naively bang his head against it”