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| Re: Why would anyone want to read anyone's undergrad thesis ever? by Hans Clastorp 12/22/2010, 4:50pm PST | ||||
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Vested Id wrote:Hans Clastorp wrote: It's just a sense I get when I read him that there's a major intellect at work, and I can't really describe what that means exactly. His stories are incredibly intricate; especially in his short stories there's a very fluid, almost organic quality that strikes me as really masterful. Personally I think he's best in the short-story format (and even Infinite Jest can almost be read as a long collection of interrelated short stories), so I'd recommend maybe checking out Oblivion or Girl with Curious Hair if you're not sure how high your tolerance is for his schtick. I'm working my way through Infinite Jest for the second time. It is huge, and it is pomo, but I don't find it tiresome or a drag mostly because he manages to strike a really good balance between challenging the reader and straight-up dramatic entertainment. And it is an entertaining novel, and funny as fuck, actually. It does expect some real work on the part of the reader though, he uses a lot of (fictional and nonfictional) technical jargon, structural acrobatics, etc., but like a lot of that stuff anyway, I could imagine someone finding it tedious or wanky though. |
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To understand the fiction of David Foster Wallace, it helps to have a little.... by 12/21/2010, 8:46pm PST  Why would anyone want to read anyone's undergrad thesis ever? by 12/22/2010, 11:11am PST Re: Why would anyone want to read anyone's undergrad thesis ever? by 12/22/2010, 1:39pm PST Come to Candy Mountain, Vested ID NT by 12/22/2010, 2:02pm PST Re: Why would anyone want to read anyone's undergrad thesis ever? by 12/22/2010, 4:50pm PST Re: To understand the fiction of David Foster Wallace, it helps to have a little by 12/22/2010, 2:30pm PST |
