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The f...more...]]> 81066924 94602 6751 0316156116 9780316156110 514 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1199405066m/6751.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1199405066s/6751.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6751.Consider_the_Lobster_And_Other_Essays 4.10 3320 2005 4 15 false Tue Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Dec 15 04:57:34 -0800 2009 Mon Dec 21 21:08:12 -0800 2009 more...]]> 77334582 26185 6751 0316156116 9780316156110 514 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1199405066m/6751.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1199405066s/6751.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6751.Consider_the_Lobster_And_Other_Essays 4.10 3320 2005 3 9 false Sun Nov 29 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Nov 10 11:06:56 -0800 2009 Tue Dec 01 16:16:03 -0800 2009 more...]]> 32835781 543625 6751 0316156116 9780316156110 514 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1199405066m/6751.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1199405066s/6751.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6751.Consider_the_Lobster_And_Other_Essays 4.10 3320 2005 4 9 false Wed Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun Sep 14 07:30:38 -0700 2008 Thu Oct 09 16:45:08 -0700 2008 Consider the Lobster by David Foster Wallace. What I'm left with is an absolute amazement at the immense amounts of knowledge related in the essays. It's like DFW had - or did enough research - to fill a set of encyclopedias on each topic, and then whittled it down to the pre...more...]]> 9085713 156533 6751 0316156116 9780316156110 514 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1199405066m/6751.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1199405066s/6751.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6751.Consider_the_Lobster_And_Other_Essays 4.10 3320 2005 4 6 false Sun Feb 24 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Tue Nov 13 20:34:35 -0800 2007 Sun Feb 24 15:58:55 -0800 2008 Consider the Lobster, that you consider it in the same light as David Foster Wallace's collection A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again. Use that book as your frame of reference for style and content and you can place this collection firmly i...more...]]> 14145569 220791 6751 0316156116 9780316156110 514 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1199405066m/6751.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1199405066s/6751.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6751.Consider_the_Lobster_And_Other_Essays 4.10 3320 2005 4 5 false Thu Jan 31 06:39:41 -0800 2008 Sun Jan 11 13:43:21 -0800 2009 more...]]> 9078027 282671 6751 0316156116 9780316156110 514 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1199405066m/6751.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1199405066s/6751.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6751.Consider_the_Lobster_And_Other_Essays 4.10 3320 2005 5 3 false Fri Apr 04 13:33:32 -0700 2008 Tue Nov 13 18:04:14 -0800 2007 Tue Nov 13 18:09:56 -0800 2007
I think that this work differs from his previous stuff in that it plays up the author's ow...more...]]> 1078055 45556 690051 0316013323 9780316013321 50 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1177263014m/690051.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1177263014s/690051.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/690051.Consider_the_Lobster_And_Other_Essays 4.04 323 2005 5 3 false Mon May 07 08:46:35 -0700 2007 Tue Mar 11 12:04:30 -0700 2008
Most interesting and perhaps most pertinent: Wallace spent time following John McCain on th...more...]]> 58852282 1127870 6751 0316156116 9780316156110 514 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1199405066m/6751.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1199405066s/6751.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6751.Consider_the_Lobster_And_Other_Essays 4.10 3320 2005 4 2 false Tue Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2006 Mon Jun 08 08:06:14 -0700 2009 Tue Aug 18 10:57:31 -0700 2009
Mr. Wallace approaches the issue from the stand point of our claw-y friends. Put yourself in the lob...more...]]> 17900047 457519 690051 0316013323 9780316013321 50 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1177263014m/690051.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1177263014s/690051.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/690051.Consider_the_Lobster_And_Other_Essays 4.10 3320 2005 3 2 false Sat Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sun Mar 16 19:07:38 -0700 2008 Mon Mar 24 10:23:11 -0700 2008
It's a book of essays, which if you know me is my favorite kind of book (they fit my habit of reading in 30 minute spurts). Some of the essays were excellent, and...more...]]> 10541153 632149 6751 0316156116 9780316156110 514 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1199405066m/6751.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1199405066s/6751.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6751.Consider_the_Lobster_And_Other_Essays 4.10 3320 2005 3 2 false Sun Dec 16 23:12:38 -0800 2007 Fri Dec 21 16:37:57 -0800 2007


"One reason it's tempting to follow the smart set -- that anxious clan of stylishly camouflaged, overeducated social maladapts that ...more...]]> 2025290 134752 478055 0349119511 9780349119519 5 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175099631m/478055.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175099631s/478055.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/478055.Consider_the_Lobster_And_Other_Essays 3.81 36 2005 3 2 false Sat Jun 16 08:04:19 -0700 2007 Sat Jun 16 08:04:19 -0700 2007 more...]]> 27155174 60698 6751 0316156116 9780316156110 514 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1199405066m/6751.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1199405066s/6751.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6751.Consider_the_Lobster_And_Other_Essays 4.10 3320 2005 5 2 false Sat Jan 17 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sun Jul 13 17:33:56 -0700 2008 Sun Jan 18 05:22:31 -0800 2009 Infinite Jest. Whereas Infinite Jest took me nearly half a year to properly ingest, Consider the Lobster concluded in roughly one early morning and three late evening sessions.
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His searing essay collections, though, are an easier read. Consider the Lobster, much like his earlier collection, A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again, is sharp but effortlessly...more...]]> 4026900 21571 690051 0316013323 9780316013321 50 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1177263014m/690051.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1177263014s/690051.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/690051.Consider_the_Lobster_And_Other_Essays 4.10 3320 2005 4 1 false Fri Aug 03 10:34:10 -0700 2007 Thu Dec 17 03:34:55 -0800 2009
Here's how Wallace's cab dr...more...]]> 8 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=478055