tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2856547151523423474.post7439625215559632532..comments2024-03-12T12:38:23.542-04:00Comments on The Kind of Face You Hate: David Foster Wallace: Suicide as a Sort of Presentbill r.http://www.blogger.com/profile/17748572205731857892noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2856547151523423474.post-7844503471097045942008-09-17T18:41:00.000-04:002008-09-17T18:41:00.000-04:00All this book stuff is weird. Books and writers a...All this book stuff is weird. Books and writers and stuff. <I>WHERE IS THAT 12 MOVIE MEME, BILL!?!?</I>Foxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08067136509248849744noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2856547151523423474.post-9095591354835152422008-09-16T18:18:00.001-04:002008-09-16T18:18:00.001-04:00When I said his was genius was of a...etc.When <I>I</I> said his was genius was of a...etc.bill r.https://www.blogger.com/profile/17748572205731857892noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2856547151523423474.post-60241757958781930052008-09-16T18:18:00.000-04:002008-09-16T18:18:00.000-04:00Whew, sorry for the delay with this, Jonathan, but...Whew, sorry for the delay with this, Jonathan, but I've been out of town for work today.<BR/><BR/>I've made what I consider astonishing progress on <I>Brief Interviews...</I>. It's a fascinating book. It's not easy, or even necessarily entertaining, but you can really see Wallace struggling with communicating with the reader (this is easy to notice since, every so often, he comes right out and says so). I think this collection was his first stab at fiction following <I>Infinite Jest</I>, and I think finishing that book, and having it so widely praised, caused him to flounder about a bit, and he chose not to hide that. When he said his genius was of a particularly restless sort, I must say I was onto something (which means I, too, am a genius).bill r.https://www.blogger.com/profile/17748572205731857892noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2856547151523423474.post-45581173441238190612008-09-16T09:36:00.000-04:002008-09-16T09:36:00.000-04:00I had Infinite Jest for years. Years! But I neve...I had <I>Infinite Jest</I> for years. Years! But I never got through it. Despite it's length, it's an easy read, but I found the center too loose, the structure too unfocused. The little bit I read had many pointed and sharp moments but it didn't pull me in. Just happens sometimes I guess. Being of mammoth size and needing bookspace, I donated it to the second hand bookstore so I could load up on more things that might grab me more.Greghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05730146625671701859noreply@blogger.com