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ninthcircle80

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Sep 15, 2008 20:04

David foster Wallace Dead at 46

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talbeans September 16 2008, 02:01:02 UTC

We're reading a short story by him in my class this week. It's kinda weird.

ninthcircle80 September 16 2008, 02:38:55 UTC

The story's weird, or it's weird that he died?

talbeans September 16 2008, 05:27:11 UTC

Both.

maltlick September 16 2008, 05:13:09 UTC

WORD! I saw that on the CNN ticker yesterday and actually let out an audible "WHUT?!" at work. No one noticed or cared as to who he was.

I have A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again on my shelf and enjoy it now and then. I have Consider the Lobster but haven't cracked it open yet.

ninthcircle80 September 16 2008, 17:22:02 UTC

Most of the time I think he's a little /too/ brilliant. Prose is definitely less than accessible to your run of the mill paperback reader. Often, I'm afraid of liking him simply because it makes me feel like an esoteric literary fanboy/poseur: "Oh, Yeah - DFW... totally. I read him when I'm taking a break from Nabokov and Pynchon *harrumph*"

Or that could just be me.

maltlick September 16 2008, 18:31:12 UTC

He's definitely a heavy-cream of lit, something I sip on occasion, but nothing I'd sick back and chug in rapid frat-boy succession.