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 […]
A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments by David Foster Wallace
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 […]