Books by David Foster Wallace
A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again, Consider the Lobster, Everything and More
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2010
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This is nonfiction commentary. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again, Consider the Lobster, Everything and More. Source: Wikipedia. Free updates online. Not illustrated. Excerpt: A Supposedly Fun Thing Ill Never Do Again is the title of a 1997 collection of non-fiction writing by David Foster Wallace. In the title essay, originally published as "Shipping Out" in Harper's, Wallace describes what he sees as the middlebrow excesses exhibited during his one week trip aboard a cruise ship (MV Zenith, which he rechristens the Nadir) in the Caribbean. His ironic displeasure with the professional hospitality industry and the "fun" he should be having unveils how the indulgences of the cruise turn him into a spoiled brat, leading to overwhelming internal despair. Wallace uses footnotes extensively throughout the piece for various asides. Like much of Wallace's work, the essay is written in post-modern style. Another essay in the same volume takes on the vulgarities and excesses of the Illinois State Fair. This collection also includes Wallace's influential essay "E Unibus Pluram" regarding television's impact on contemporary literature and the use of irony within American culture. Essays collected in the book: The following excerpt from the title essay illustrates Wallace's style and use of footnotes: ..". advertisement that pretends to be art is, at absolute best, like somebody who smiles warmly at you only because he wants something from you. This is dishonest, but what's sinister is the cumulative effect that such dishonesty has on us: since it offers a perfect facsimile or simulacrum of goodwill without goodwill's real spirit, it messes with our heads and eventually starts upping our defenses even in cases of genuine smiles and real art and true goodwill. It makes us feel confus...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=133657
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