false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1199405066m/6751.jpg 6751 9 Do lobsters feel pain? Did Franz Kafka have a sick sense of humor? What is John Updikes deal anyway? And who won the Adult Video News Female Performer of the Year Award the same year Gwyneth Paltrow won her Oscar? David Foster Wallace answers these questions and more in his new book of hilarious nonfiction. For this collection, David Foster Wallace immerses himself in the three-ring circus that is the presidential race in order to document one of the most vicious campaigns in recent history. Later he strolls from booth to booth at a lobster festival in Maine and risks life and limb to get to the bottom of the lobster question. Then he wheedles his way into an L.A. radio studio, armed with tubs of chicken, to get the behind-the-scenes view of a conservative talk show featuring a host with an unnatural penchant for clothing that looks good only on the radio. 2207382 13 12 2005 Consider the Lobster: And Other Essays total:3202|5:1147|4:1390|3:525|2:104|1:36| 3202 13114 5145 554 5 22 false false Thu Jan 31 05:56:47 -0800 2008 Thu Jan 31 05:59:27 -0800 2008 more...]]> 4 8 false 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...]]> 4 6 false 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...]]> 4 3 false false Thu Jan 31 06:39:41 -0800 2008 Sun Jan 11 13:43:21 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5 3 false 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...]]> 5 3 false 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...]]> 4 2 false 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...]]> 3 2 false 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...]]> 3 2 false 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...]]> 3 2 false false Sat Jun 16 08:04:19 -0700 2007 Sat Jun 16 08:04:19 -0700 2007 more...]]> 5 1 false 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...]]> 4 1 false false Fri Aug 03 10:34:10 -0700 2007 Sun Aug 05 09:14:10 -0700 2007
Here's how Wallace's cab dr...more...]]> 5 1 false false Wed Jul 25 19:27:26 -0700 2007 Wed Jul 25 19:27:26 -0700 2007 more...]]> 4 1 false false Sat Jan 17 12:40:49 -0800 2009 Sat Jan 17 14:21:01 -0800 2009 4 0 false false Sun Nov 30 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sun Nov 30 14:30:34 -0800 2008 Sun Nov 30 15:18:57 -0800 2008 more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=6751