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  <title><![CDATA[Oblivion: Stories]]></title>
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  <default_description>'Stunning......Wallace is an astonishing storyteller whose fiction reminds us why we learned how to read in the first place.' -San Francisco Chronicle OBLIVION is an arresting, hilarious new creation from a writer universally regarded as one of the most prodigious and original talents in contemporary letters. In the stories that make up this exuberantly praised collection, David Foster Wallace joins the rawest, most naked humanity with the infinite involutions of self-consciousness-a combination that is dazzlingly, uniquely his.</default_description>
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  <original_publication_year type="integer">2004</original_publication_year>
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  <read_at>Fri Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Mi DFW favorito hasta la fecha. Antes de leer 'Extinción', David Foster Wallace me gustaba: escribía bien, era postmoderno, original y divertido, pero sus cuentos eran sólo anécdotas, algunas más incisivas que otras, pero anécdotas al fin y al cabo. En cambio 'Extinción' va mucho más allá. ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6530708">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Thu Apr 02 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Wed Apr 01 16:52:12 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sat Apr 04 18:31:36 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I've only got a few pages left of the last story in this collection and the whole thing has just been so excruciatingly beautiful I am almost palpably sad to see its end approach.  That the guy whose mind from whence this sprung had to want to die so bad is just the worst the worst the worst.<br/>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/51195950">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="8063317">
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  <read_at>Thu Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
  <date_added>Mon Oct 22 06:18:57 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sat Jan 19 17:20:48 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[No arranca Extinción de forma demasiado afortunada: Señor Blandito resulta, de entrada, un relato innecesariamente denso que cae de pleno en algunos de los tics más irritantes de la literatura contemporánea (distancia narrativa, descripción exhaustiva con ínfulas de objetivismo científico, de...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8063317">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="1122432">
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  <date_added>Wed May 09 09:59:53 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed Nov 07 12:34:53 -0800 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Oh, man.  Do you see how I couldn't really recommend this book to anybody, despite the fact that I voted it five stars?  That's because I genuinely felt haunted by some of the enclosed stories.  Now, let's think about that for a second:  &quot;haunted.&quot;  What that means, basically, is that I fe...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1122432">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="4124814">
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    <location><![CDATA[New York, NY]]></location>        
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  <read_at>Sun Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
  <date_added>Sun Aug 05 18:20:20 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Tue Sep 25 10:29:10 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I get a little depressed after reading DFW books because I realize how far my writing skills fall short. This book is insanely dense and show-offy in the best sense (like when a magician draws attention to himself to fool you...then leaves you breathless after the bangs and flashes). This is a book ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4124814">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="19695208">
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    <name><![CDATA[Wendy]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Oakland, CA]]></location>        
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  <read_at>Mon May 12 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Mon Apr 07 20:51:59 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon May 12 16:15:28 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Another one where I'd like give it 2.5 stars. Stories are hit ( the one about the spiders, the one about the kids in the classroom, the guy who's a fraud) and miss (the one about the kid in the village, incarnations of burned children) and in between (Mr. Squishy, the title story about the snoring)....<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/19695208">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="51142996">
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    <location><![CDATA[The United States]]></location>        
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  <read_at>Tue Mar 24 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Wed Apr 01 09:06:16 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed Apr 01 09:42:51 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This review is stewing and &quot;in process.&quot; <br/> <br/><u>Oblivion: Stories</u>: A soul-piercing look at the <br/>torture of having a schism between the inner and the outer life. An extremely successful man commits suicide because he can't stop manipulating other people to like him, but he also--...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/51142996">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="41515192">
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    <name><![CDATA[Enrique]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[The United States]]></location>        
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  <date_added>Thu Jan 01 13:21:54 -0800 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri Jan 02 10:56:51 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I picked this up after hearing an old interview of the author on NPR.  The show was aired in the recent aftermath of Foster Wallace's suicide.  His manic fast talk and wit reminded me of an old college buddy, a similarly gifted writer who perhaps fortunately never made it big.<br/><br/>I tried get...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41515192">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="71079519">
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    <name><![CDATA[Ricki]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[The United Kingdom]]></location>        
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  <read_at>Sun Sep 13 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Sun Sep 13 12:39:59 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun Sep 13 12:41:40 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I really enjoyed the title story from this book and at least parts of the others. This may sound horrid but from his writing in this book I could understand why he committed suicide: his mind must have been constantly working, looking, dissecting and analysing - living with a mind like that must hav...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/71079519">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="64012918">
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    <name><![CDATA[Chris]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Huntsville, TX]]></location>        
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    <body><![CDATA[I read a review recently of DFW's dealing with a book I've not read by David Markson called Wittgenstein's Mistress.  (This is how much I love DFW -- I'll read reviews he's written on books about which I am clueless)  In the review he mentions the narrator's explicitly revealing stream-of-consciousn...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/64012918">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="53168563">
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    <name><![CDATA[Britt]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Beloit, WI]]></location>        
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      <rating>4</rating>
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  <read_at>Wed Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Sat Apr 18 17:36:24 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sat Apr 18 17:51:28 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I've read in various places about his biography and his struggles with depression, and I agree deeply the observation that Wallace was exquisitely attuned to the suffering in the world around him.  He's like an antenna focused on the excruciating struggle of humanity—of individuals and the whole, ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/53168563">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="46915307">
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    <name><![CDATA[Marjorie]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Silver Spring, MD]]></location>        
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  <date_added>Thu Feb 19 18:49:30 -0800 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Feb 19 18:55:45 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I am putting this book on the &quot;read&quot; shelf, despite the fact I could not get through it.  I started the first essay and finally realized, after having not been able to get my head around a point in the book, that the &quot;sentence&quot; I was reading was, ohhh, about a page and a half lon...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/46915307">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="45459485">
    <user id="1008236">
    <name><![CDATA[Bookmarks Magazine]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[The United States]]></location>        
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    <body><![CDATA[<p>Some critics scream self-indulgence, while others lash back with claims of genius. No one denies the verbal wizardry of the MacArthur Grant-winning author of Infinite Jest. And yet Wallace's prose style lies at the epicenter of the debate. Does his wordiness obscure a lack of substance, or is the ke...</p><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/45459485">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="38799001">
    <user id="167500">
    <name><![CDATA[David]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Cleveland, TN]]></location>        
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      <rating>4</rating>
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  <read_at>Tue Dec 23 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Fri Nov 28 07:00:22 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Tue Dec 23 06:57:44 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a tough one for me to rate.  Part of the trouble is the nagging feeling that four stars is my default rating--like giving every paper one grades a B.  In style and content, these stories can be a bit of a challenge, and a few of them I admit, at the risk of sounding like I should be reading ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38799001">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="37782496">
    <user id="895199">
    <name><![CDATA[Patrick]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[The United States]]></location>        
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      <rating>4</rating>
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  <read_at>Mon Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Sat Nov 15 06:20:13 -0800 2008</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[What struck me most about this book, having slogged through his early collection THE GIRL WITH CURIOUS HAIR and mostly enjoyed the substantive pieces in BRIEF INTERVIEWS WITH HIDEOUS MEN (much of the book is slog, but the jems &quot;The Depressed Person&quot; and &quot;Signifying Nothing&quot;, as w...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/37782496">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="71204315">
    <user id="8742">
    <name><![CDATA[Alisa]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Bellingham, WA]]></location>        
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  <read_at>Tue Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Mon Sep 14 13:27:45 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[David Foster Wallace is one of those authors that I think everyone should read. My only complaint is an occasional gimmick-y feeling. Not from the style--I actually think that his page-long sentences are a natural style for him. The gimmick for me is where all the characters have such dark and usual...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/71204315">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="65672716">
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    <name><![CDATA[Mderrick]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[The United States]]></location>        
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    <body><![CDATA[DFW is so brilliant and he seems like he was a great guy.  His family's love for him is so heartbreaking.  One of the articles that I read in memoriam said that his family was happy to spend as much time with him as they could and they felt blessed to have him in their lives and survive as long as h...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/42552557">more...</a>]]></body>
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