The Pale King Lib/E (CD-Audio)

from JeffV

The Pale King is a work of fiction pieced together from notes discovered following the 2008 death of David Foster Wallace. Editor Michael Pietsch assembles these notes as best he can to make a cohesive work. The result is a story, or an associated collection of them, that have no plot. What we ha...

from alexrichman

Wonderful. Infinite Jest was an addictive book about addiction, and many have described this as an occasionally boring book about boredom ... but it never dragged for me. Disjointed, yes, but then if the author died a fraction of the way through, why wouldn't it be? A perfect paean to the office ...

from hereandthere

The Pale King is a novel of the Internal Revenue Service. It is a meditation on boredom, and bureaucracy. It's a language dance. It is often profound and seriously playful. It's about taxes and tax collection and life in the prison of a large organization, in this case the IRS, or, we might just ...

from gergacheck

The Impossible Purity of The Pale King The epigraph to The Pale King says it all: "We fill pre-existing forms and when we fill them we change them and are changed." This could be the argument for the cosmos, but alas we find it in and made by David Foster Wallace's final novel. It is performed by...

from HadriantheBlind

A sprawling, messy, incomplete masterpiece. You left us far too soon, David.Reread. The book has much to say - about the tragedy of boredom of modern lives, about how to survive the lack of interesting things that happen. Even in its incomplete form, I'm still very impressed with this book, and w...