Consider the Lobster and Other Essays (Selected Essays)
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| Rating | : | 4.45 (775 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B000CRSF6C |
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| Number of Pages | : | 515 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-10-03 |
| Language | : | English |
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From Publishers Weekly This audiobook is like no other—not for the fabulous essays or deft narration, but for its inclusion of footnotes. His delivery is dead-on and fresh, the words often springing from his mouth as if conceived on the spot. His voice mostly hovers a notch or two above monotone, imbuing the material with equal parts wonder and skepticism. (Dec.)Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. When Wallace reads his plentiful footnotes, which as fans know are anecdotal asides rather than bibliographic references, his voice changes tone. But the novelty quickly fades and the parentheticals play as effective and amusing a role as in his print work, perhaps more so since here flow can be better maintained. At first, this audio wrinkle sounds odd. 10). Simultaneous release with the Little, Brown hardcover (Reviews, Oct. . All rights
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.
Often hilarious, usually insightful, and always original Goon Mandoo I'm sure that 99.999999% of people who asked DFW to review something knew what they were getting into -- ask him to review a lobster festival, get a miniature treatise on the ethical implications of causing pain to animals; ask him to review a grammar handbook, get a play-by-play of warring factions within the lexicographical community; ask him to review an adult-film trade show, get (in a footnote, no less) one of the most moving little soliloquies ever written about the connection between sex and truth -- . As always, IMPECCABLE! Paul Voorhies DFW has an unbelievable knack for making the most distasteful of subjects riveting. The topics of some of his essays, oh let's say, for instance, Big Red Son, are not something that I would necessarily, ordinarily seek to read on my own, but his thorough depiction and analysis of this, well, interesting subculture is so top notch and fascinating that I found it impossible to put down.Politics isn't my cup of tea either. Yet his essay on McCain's 2000 bid for the Republican nomination just sucks you right in.. "Things you may not want to think about" according to mark jabbour. David Foster Wallace, more so than any other person, makes me laugh and cry, in other words, feel deeply. Which is a good thing, I think--which is the other thing he makes me do--think. And all that is as he intended if I am interpreting his writing accurately--which is as he posits, not possible--to know how a reader will react to what it is you write; but writing, as Wallace says, is nothing but, " an act of communication between one human being and another " [From "Greatly Exaggerated" in the Harvard Bo