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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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When Joe Starling was ten years old, his father’s bank foreclosed on a fieldstone mansion which was by then a depressing ruin standing by itself in the middle of a fourteen-section cattle pasture.

Keep the Change by Thomas McGuane

"A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again" by David Foster Wallace

Night-Flight by Antoine St Exupery

Redhead by the Side of the Road by Anne Tyler

April 23, 2020 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

Keep The Change – 2/5 Stars This is a novel by Thomas McGuane, mostly known for Western and Southern novels that have an air of seriousness to them and a lot of ironic gesturing and clippy dialog. I’ve previous read one of his short story collections which was very strong, but he’s been around for awhile. This novel is ok, but I can’t say I connected much with it. Joe works as a teen on a farm that his father foreclosed on and the new […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: anne tyler, Antoine St Exupery, David Foster Wallace, keep the change, Thomas McGuane

vel veeter's CBR12 Review No:224 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: anne tyler, Antoine St Exupery, David Foster Wallace, keep the change, Thomas McGuane ·
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Happy Birthday. Your thirteenth is important. Maybe your first really public day.

Brief Interviews with Hideous Men by David Foster Wallace

December 6, 2019 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

A book that certainly delivers upon the promise of its title. I remember a few years ago when Adelle Waldman’s The Affairs of Nathaniel P. came out and we were meant to take it as a savage takedown of fuckboi culture, and then when I read it, not only did I not think that Nate was all that bad, I didn’t see the book as a takedown so much as reading the shift in the educated, white, Liberal masculinity in urban spaces. This book is most definitely […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Short Stories Tagged With: Brief interviews with hideous men, David Foster Wallace

vel veeter's CBR11 Review No:673 · Genres: Fiction, Short Stories · Tags: Brief interviews with hideous men, David Foster Wallace ·
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Not David Foster Wallace’s best, but that still means it’s better than most.

February 18, 2016 by Doctor Douche Leave a Comment

I’ll start with a preamble, I really like David Foster Wallace’s work, and Infinite Jest might just be my all-time favorite book. I love post-modern writing, not everyone’s preferred cup of tea I know, but give me a fragmented non-linear narrative and I will gleefully jump in. So this is almost hand crafted for me, and yet I am forced to admit that I didn’t care for it all that much. The structure of the book is a collection of non-related short stories, inter-cut by […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Brief interviews with hideous men, David Foster Wallace

Doctor Douche's CBR8 Review No:4 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Brief interviews with hideous men, David Foster Wallace ·
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A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments by David Foster Wallace

May 28, 2014 by badkittyuno 8 Comments

Cannonball, baby! I hate that I hit my 52 books on a book that I really really didn’t like. I know that David Foster Wallace was a genius. I really feel bad that I’ve never read anything else of his (yes, yes, I know I should Infinite Jest) but after dragging myself through the essays of A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again, it’s unlikely I will give him another shot. The first essay was about his tennis career; kind of math-y but fairly interesting. The second essay […]

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

badkittyuno's CBR6 Review No:52 · Genres: Non-Fiction · Tags: badkittyuno, David Foster Wallace ·
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