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If you've never read anything by David Foster Wallace, this is an excellent place to start. It has all of his tricks — the footnotes, the hyperliterate sentence
by tel 17y ago
If you've never read anything by David Foster Wallace, this is an excellent place to start. It has all of his tricks — the footnotes, the hyperliterate sentences, the disregard for periods, total maximalism — and not a few examples of his descriptive virtuosity.
It'll also, no matter how much you may already be awed, keep you from ever watching another of Federer's match without seeing the effervescent white light surrounding him or looking to see if his feet every really do touch the ground.
- RyanMcGreal 17y agoHeh. I've been crawling through Everything and More and it's definitely not an excellent place to start, unless you've already got the transfinite math chops and are reading it for sheer enjoyment. (Note: I don't already have the transfinite math chops, and while I'm reading the book for enjoyment, it's "sheer" mainly in the sense that the unforgiving cliff face to which a novice climber clings is sheer.) If you enjoyed this essay on Federer, the logical next place to go with DFW is his essay collection A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again.
- kbob 17y agoI loved A Supposedly Fun Thing, but my wife hated it. Maybe that was my fault for suggesting she read it on the cruise ship. (-: