David Foster Wallace
Hardcover | Pages: 343 pages Rating: 4.23 | 37797 Users | 2845 Reviews
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| Title | : | Consider the Lobster and Other Essays |
| Author | : | David Foster Wallace |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 343 pages |
| Published | : | December 13th 2005 by Little, Brown and Company |
| Categories | : | Nonfiction. Writing. Essays. Philosophy. Humor. Short Stories. Literature. American |
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Do lobsters feel pain? Did Franz Kafka have a funny bone? What is John Updike's deal, anyway? And what happens when adult video starlets meet their fans in person? David Foster Wallace answers these questions and more in essays that are also enthralling narrative adventures. Whether covering the three-ring circus of a vicious presidential race, plunging into the wars between dictionary writers, or confronting the World's Largest Lobster Cooker at the annual Maine Lobster Festival, Wallace projects a quality of thought that is uniquely his and a voice as powerful and distinct as any in American letters.Contains: "Big Red Son," "Certainly the End of Something or Other, One Would Sort of Have to Think," "Some Remarks on Kafka's Funniness from Which Probably Not Enough Has Been Removed," "Authority and American Usage," "The View from Mrs. Thompson's," "How Tracy Austin Broke My Heart," "Up, Simba," "Consider the Lobster," "Joseph Frank's Dostoevsky" and "Host."
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| Original Title: | Consider the Lobster |
| ISBN: | 0316156116 (ISBN13: 9780316156110) |
| Edition Language: | English |
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Ratings: 4.23 From 37797 Users | 2845 ReviewsColumn Regarding Books Consider the Lobster and Other Essays
Wallace takes boring topic like reviewing a dictionary and turns it into an interesting piece of writing. I came in only for Dostoyevsky, but left with suffering lobsters.What can I say? Another brilliant set of essays.1. Big Red Son - at the AVN (Adult Video News) Awards. An insightful and amusing look at the porn industry. For a regular civilian male, hanging out in a hotel suite with porn starlets is a tense and emotionally convolved affair. There is, first, the matter of having seen the various intimate activities and anatomical parts of these starlets in videos heretofore and thus (weirdly) feeling shy about meeting them. But there is also a complex erotic
So let's get this out of the way: intellectually Wallace trounces Klosterman and Gladwell and still has more than enough left over to bounce David Brooks or any other pop-essayist du jour.This collection is actually better, more substantial, than the essays in "A Supposedly Fun Thing..." It's nothing I can exactly single out, except that this group of essays came across as more polished, professional, but no less amusing and illuminating. In the course of reading these, I've had the pleasure of
First a declaration of interest: anything by Wallace gets a 5 star review from me.David Foster Wallace was a truly a literary virtuoso talent on a stick - with a style indebted to Mark Twain, seen as a major influence on his work. I read the book a few years ago but have splashed out to get the Audible app so I could listen to this collection of essays narrated by the author himself a marvellous gift from beyond the grave made possible by modern technology, though a poignant experience too.
This is an interesting collection of unrelated essays by the late David Foster Wallace. The funniest one for me was the title essay. No one could match him for wit and manipulation of language as this book attests. There are some essays though which are nearly unreadable like the one about a dictionary. Once you have read Infinite Jest and Pale King and wish to read a bit of his non-fiction, this one or Something Supposedly Fun that I'll Never Try Again would be a nice place to start.
Having predictably traversed the 120 first pages of I J I turned to this highly enjoyable readable and fun lobster book. Something I like about DFW and something I find rather young and self-indulgent about him. So before getting back into IJ I have resorted to the Hideous Men book and I am not enjoying it at all. Harold Bloom says to be selective because you can't read all the books anymore... so I think I might go for the completist read of Delillo (apparently DFW's favorite author) and spare
Do you know that feeling of falling in love so hard and so fast that your head spins? That feeling that your sweetie is AMAZING, PERFECT, and you have no idea how you ever lived without them? The sun rises and sets with each breath they take?? No? Sorry about your luck.The first DFW book I read was A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again and I was instantly smitten. Totally in love.And then I read this.That AMAZING, PERFECT love? I feel like I have just busted him mid-nose pick. Knuckle deep
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