Dec 18, 2009

A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again | A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again

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Author: David Foster Wallace
First Published: 1997
Type of Work: Essays
Genres: Nonfiction, Essays
Subjects: Adolescence, Authors or writers, Alienation, Substance abuse, Food, Drug addiction or addicts, Tornadoes, Television or television broadcasting, Filmmaking or filmmakers, Old age or elderly people, Fairs, Mathematics or mathematicians, Commerce, Tennis

Reading David Foster Wallace is like riding a verbal roller coaster or being catapulted by some zany carnival ride that twists and turns one’s perspective, flips the world upside down, and creates a kaleidoscope of blurred colors and rapidly alternating images. His prose is a nonstop language experience, immersing the reader in varieties of slang, four-letter words, technical terminology, academic jargon, and outright linguistic inventions. Only Wallace, for example, would describe the overly solicitous and nervously busy crew of a cruise ship as “amphetaminic,” the same Wallace...

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A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again | A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again

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