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I saw a couple interviews with the editor who finished the book. They were all making great comments about it. Since it is supposed to be funny on some level and all are calling the author brilliant, I thought I'd check out the preview on books.google.com.
(Loosing the fact that the author died before completion... and all related to that...)
I didn't expect Dave Barry ha, ha... type funny... But, I feel like I'm missing something. The preview on google has unnumbered pages of long, long, long paragraphs. There's little dialog... I've never read any of David Foster Wallace's work - everyone spoke so highly of his writing. I can usually read anything, even if only to study the technique, but not this.
Please help me, what am I missing here? I'm trying to understand the brilliance that everyone else is seeing. I feel thoroughly stupid that I can't tease out even a clue from the portions that I've read so far.
(Loosing the fact that the author died before completion... and all related to that...)
I didn't expect Dave Barry ha, ha... type funny... But, I feel like I'm missing something. The preview on google has unnumbered pages of long, long, long paragraphs. There's little dialog... I've never read any of David Foster Wallace's work - everyone spoke so highly of his writing. I can usually read anything, even if only to study the technique, but not this.
Please help me, what am I missing here? I'm trying to understand the brilliance that everyone else is seeing. I feel thoroughly stupid that I can't tease out even a clue from the portions that I've read so far.