David Foster Wallace

[Hartamophone]

Have any of you read anything by him? I just picked up a book of his essays, and have been entirely blown away. Clearly he was one of those guys who was just crazy smart, as even the stuff in the book going back to his 20's shows a mastery of the English language and depth of obsvation that are rare in a writer of any age.

I think I need to check out some of his fiction. Anybody read Infinte Jest?

[shainhouse]

Infinite Jest is amazing. one of the best reads ever, albeit quite long.

[Hartamophone]

To be honest, the length is a big part of what has scared me off of it in the past.

[hamilton]

Infinite Jest is a horrible, horrible book. The only reason I finished it was because I refused to let myself be bested by such a pretentious piece of crap. It's well-written in the sense that he uses language really well, but the plot is really much more interesting in theory than in execution. Essentially, it's a classic case of style over substance. So it was groundbreaking, yes, but not all that enjoyable. Like Yoko Ono.

His essays are really good, though.

[Hartamophone]

Hamilton,

I laughed, I cried, I decided not to read it. Thank you.

xoxo,

Hartamophone