Girl with Curious Hair Lib/E (Audiobook)

from Neftzger

David Foster Wallace delivers some beautiful commentary on modern culture through fiction. While some readers may find these stories difficult to get through, it's worth the effort to follow the satire on both American culture (fast food, television, musical, political .. he covers them all in di...

from SaintBrevity

It's David Foster Wallace; you either get him or you don't, I think. This is a collection of short stories, all in the inimitable DFW style, which just drips with the knowledge that this is Literature with an L so big that it makes godzilla slink away in shame. The stories are self indulgent, ver...

from HadriantheBlind

A collection of stories, which I regret finishing, as that leaves less of DFW's work unread, with only the brick-sized Infinite Jest looming at me. That will be It. But I will revisit these stories, and chat with him a little bit longer.The stories are a bit hit-and-miss by DFW standards, which t...

from alexrichman

Always good, and occasionally great. The titular story was my favourite - A Confederacy of Dunces on crack - but there are plenty of other highlights, like the imagined-but-all-too-real Lyndon, or the gruffly heartfelt John Billy. The final section, a novella, gives glimpses of what was to come w...

from la.grisette

I don't know what it was about the general tone/emotional impact of this book that I enjoyed so much less than Brief Interviews or Oblivion. I was left cold by the titular story, as well as "Everything's Green." "Say Never" seemed left over from Brief Interviews, and it was better. Especially enj...