Lee's review
A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments
by David Foster Wallace
Lee's review
A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments by David Foster Wallace
Lee's review
rating:
One of the reasons I write. Really turned me on the possibilities of a naturally rangy, engaging, humorous, insightful voice . . . I just read Tolstoy's definition of art as, in part, being necessarily able to *infect* the reader with an emotion or mental state, and this book totally fulfills that jawn. I always compare DFW to AI (Allen Iverson), in that after I watched every Sixers game in the winter of 1998, my game improved tremendously in the spring: I could suddenly dribble and move more effectively without the ball -- AI transmitted skills by example. DFW's non-fiction has a similar viral intelligence: it infected me, at least, and so I think it's pretty artful. You'll like these essays a lot if you like reading things that are funny and smart. I like DFW's non-fiction more than his fiction: he's got a lot to say and he says it an entertaining way that nevertheless respects (and most importantly *reveals*) the complexity of, well, everything . . . .
