15 Random, Belated Thoughts on The Pale King by David Foster Wallace

I.David Foster Wallace's posthumous novel The Pale King is boring.


II.The Pale King is funny, inventive, brilliant, engrossing.


III.The Pale King is both I. and II.  But not at the same time.


IV.I started writing this "review" two years ago shortly after I finished reading The Pale King.  Why I never followed through and put all my initial thoughts down on paper at that time, I don't know.  Distraction, I guess.  Maybe I was on sweaty, bowel-cramping deadline to finish filing...