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David Foster Wallace's sprawling epic chronicles drug use and abuse largely in two separate narrative arcs that wind around each other, like the strands of a DNA helix, that highlight the internal lives, from every possible angle, of his protagonists. Naturally the book is replete with Foster Wallace's use of inter-story addendums (in an extensive use of end-notes) that grant the format a slight documentary feel, as if Foster Wallace were a journalist who had managed to peer into the soul of his characters.
This adds to it's considerable heft, both in the weight of the subject material and actual physical weight. One gets the feeling that Foster Wallace so desperately wants you to understand his subject's reality that he includes everything, absolutely everything, that is remotely pertinent to the story. This makes the book a massive undertaking, for Foster Wallace and the reader both, and is not to be lightly taken up.
But if you have the time and mental tenacity to brave Foster Wallace's sea of words, in which every mot seems absolutely necessary, the journey is quite worthwhile.
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blake.peterson, April 6, 2007
David Foster Wallace's sprawling epic chronicles drug use and abuse largely in two separate narrative arcs that wind around each other, like the strands of a DNA helix, that highlight the internal lives, from every possible angle, of his protagonists. Naturally the book is replete with Foster Wallace's use of inter-story addendums (in an extensive use of end-notes) that grant the format a slight documentary feel, as if Foster Wallace were a journalist who had managed to peer into the soul of his characters.This adds to it's considerable heft, both in the weight of the subject material and actual physical weight. One gets the feeling that Foster Wallace so desperately wants you to understand his subject's reality that he includes everything, absolutely everything, that is remotely pertinent to the story. This makes the book a massive undertaking, for Foster Wallace and the reader both, and is not to be lightly taken up.
But if you have the time and mental tenacity to brave Foster Wallace's sea of words, in which every mot seems absolutely necessary, the journey is quite worthwhile.
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