The Broom of the System : A Novel (CD-Audio)

from IonaS

A programme promising to indicate which famous writer you most write like, at any rate in a specific text, stated that my style resembled that of David Foster Wallace. I had previously never heard of this writer, but after reading this book I can tell you that the said statement was wildly inaccu...

from bardsfingertips

I feel like I know a little more, perhaps just an inkling, about this young man who took his own life. I feel as though he saw the world slightly different than most of us. I feel as though, from reading this book, he saw the details we choose to ignore. Somewhere, I saw that the word Broom somet...

from DRFP

Surprisingly good. Surprising because as fan of more sparse, minimal literature I've always been suspicious of DFW and that doorstopper of his, Infinite Jest. I've enjoyed his non-fiction and I know his short stories are just that but, none the less, I was hesitant about reading this. I needn't h...

from dugenstyle

I'll keep it simple: you can't tell its a first novel. All of the intellect, imagination, and humor that I love about DFW's writing was here in full force; however, the aspect of his writing I've found most powerful - his overwhelmingly urgent since of earnestness (i.e., "I-feel-this-way-and-some...

from tercat

This book had it's entertaining moments, but at the end I was left feeling kind of ho-hum about it. I'd never read anything by David Foster Wallace before. Early in the book I spotted "first novel" awkward bits, but those were relatively few and I noticed them less and less as the book continued....