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But i was deeply grateful for the chance which wallace afforded me to spend time in their hearts.
A genius at portraying human frailty, beauty and nastiness with the lightest touch.
The non chronology and quirky satirical jab of subsidised time, have a disorientating effect on things, which like the footnote... Read More
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Wallace can draw you into an unputdownable thread of narrative that keeps you entranced, even breathless, for page after page.
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- This product had a total of 2,798 reviews as of our last analysis date on Sep 9 2021.
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Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Please give yourself a bit of time to get into it
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
This novel has an unusual structure and david foster wallace does not reveal everything at once so you have to spend the first part of it getting some snapshots of characters and situations before moving on just go with it
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Great condition book with new 20th anniversary edition cover full of mainly blue post it notes and a few red and white ones
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Gatelys struggle being accepting the no nonsense truths that are buried within cliche
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Something that didnt quite work for me was reading characters like the endearing gately who are written as distinctly non academic types yet tend to have an inner dialogue of an anxiety ridden intellectual but perhaps like joelle remarks in one conversation with him he was not as dumb as he pretends to be
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
The non chronology and quirky satirical jab of subsidised time have a disorientating effect on things which like the footnotes and slang once you get used to just seems normal but i am not sure with the exception of the first chapter it ever justifies itself
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
I have to admit i didnt understand every paragraph
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
In this book the title is first mentioned on the second page of a endnote which takes up pp985993
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