Although of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself: A Road Trip with David Foster Wallace, (Paperback)

from HadriantheBlind

This books reads like one of the best conversations you've ever had. You know what I mean - the nightlong philosophical meandering lovely humorous discourses on life, the universe, and Meaning, and all of those Big Concepts. I admit freely that I adore DFW and would have been a stuttering mess ha...

from Mrs_McGreevy

This book consists of Lipsky's notes (and occasional commentary thereon) from the time he accompanied David Foster Wallace on the final leg of his book tour for Infinite Jest. It's a fascinating portrait of a young man struggling with fame, with genius, and with the depression that would eventual...

from ecataldi

I was surprised at how quickly I flew through this book. I think I was expecting it to be as heavy as Infinite Jest, but at a slim 300 pages this book a nice fast read. I had seen the movie, The End of The Tour, last year and loved it. Although of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself is the transc...

from stephkaye

This is not an easy read. Even for a die-hard David Foster Wallace fan like myself, it was frustrating. Lipsky has basically transcribed, word for word, "um" for "um," the conversations that he had with Wallace over the course of a few days that the journalist spent profiling Wallace toward the e...

from Neftzger

Reading this book is like having a conversation with David Foster Wallace. That's because it is a conversation - it's the transcript of taped conversations the author had with DFW while on the last portion of the Infinite Jest book tour. That (for me) was the most interesting part, because I was ...