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In this exuberantly praised book - a collection of seven pieces on subjects ranging from television to tennis, from the Illinois State Fair to the films of David Lynch, from postmodern literary theory to the supposed fun of traveling aboard a Caribbean luxury cruiseliner - David Foster Wallace brings to nonfiction the same curiosity, hilarity, and exhilarating verbal facility that has delighted readers of his fiction.
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- Duración: 2 h y 7 m
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Separated by 10 years, 3,000 miles, and the unrelenting stresses of adulthood, best friends Janet and Serena plan a 40th birthday girls’ trip to reconnect. But after a massive crash, they’re the only survivors to wash ashore on an uncharted Caribbean Island. Armed with only the clothes on their backs and zero survival skills, they fight to overcome hunger, thirst, deadly wildlife—and most terrifyingly—decades of accrued resentment. Can they find their way home, or will they kill each other first?
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5 out of 5 stars
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Get ready to Laugh
- De Lasheree McFarlane en 11-08-24
De: Chris Bruno, y otros
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Mel & Sue: Should Know By Now
- De: Mel Giedroyc, Sue Perkins
- Narrado por: Mel Giedroyc, Sue Perkins
- Duración: 3 h y 30 m
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We all have things in our life that we should know by now, but don’t. Absences in our knowledge and skillset that are frankly shameful in an adult. Things that would be too embarrassing to ask anyone to explain – except our very best friend. Listen in as Mel and Sue tackle their ignorance head on, asking each other to explain something that they still don’t know - but absolutely, as adults, should - from how to parallel park to fully understanding bread (why has it got all those holes in it? What, honestly, is yeast?).
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5 out of 5 stars
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I laughed so hard. They have a genuine relationship that shines through
- De bonnie sunderville en 03-18-25
De: Mel Giedroyc, y otros
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The Best Man's Ghostwriter
- De: Matthew Starr
- Narrado por: Glen Powell, Nicholas Braun, Ashley Park, y otros
- Duración: 4 h y 37 m
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A bad best man’s speech can ruin a wedding. Why do we plan every detail of a perfect day and then give the groom’s idiot best friend five minutes of total power? Enter Nate (Glen Powell), a speechwriter-for-hire who helps people write incredible best man speeches. To keep the best man from embarrassing himself (and the newlyweds), Nate uses his list of don’ts: Don’t mention the exes, don’t be rated R, and don’t bum everyone out. Nate’s system never fails. That is, until he meets Dan (Nicholas Braun).
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SO GOOD
- De Csutty en 09-23-24
De: Matthew Starr
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Consider the Lobster
- And Other Essays
- De: David Foster Wallace
- Narrado por: Robert Petkoff, David Foster Wallace
- Duración: 15 h y 8 m
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Do lobsters feel pain? Did Franz Kafka have a funny bone? What is John Updike's deal, anyway? And what happens when adult video starlets meet their fans in person? David Foster Wallace answers these questions and more in essays that are also enthralling narrative adventures.
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5 out of 5 stars
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How this differs from the other version
- De Jonathan Penley en 12-26-17
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The David Foster Wallace Reader
- De: David Foster Wallace
- Narrado por: Robert Petkoff, David Foster Wallace, Sally Foster Wallace, y otros
- Duración: 48 h y 44 m
- Versión completa
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Where do you begin with a writer as original and brilliant as David Foster Wallace? Here - with a carefully considered selection of his extraordinary body of work, chosen by a range of great writers, critics, and those who worked with him most closely. This volume presents his most dazzling, funniest, and most heartbreaking work.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Impossible to use without Chapter Names
- De Ethan Klitzke en 12-04-21
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The Pale King
- De: David Foster Wallace
- Narrado por: Robert Petkoff
- Duración: 19 h y 15 m
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The agents at the IRS Regional Examination Center in Peoria, Illinois, appear ordinary enough to newly arrived trainee David Foster Wallace. But as he immerses himself in a routine so tedious and repetitive that new employees receive boredom-survival training, he learns of the extraordinary variety of personalities drawn to this strange calling. And he has arrived at a moment when forces within the IRS are plotting to eliminate even what little humanity and dignity the work still has.
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4 out of 5 stars
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The King is dead, long live the King!
- De Darwin8u en 10-31-16
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David Foster Wallace: In His Own Words
- De: David Foster Wallace
- Narrado por: David Foster Wallace
- Duración: 8 h y 52 m
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Collected here for the first time are the stories and speeches of David Foster Wallace as read by the author himself. Over the course of his career, David Foster Wallace recorded a variety of his work in diverse circumstances - from studio recordings to live performances - that are finally compiled in this unique collection.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The best book on Audible!
- De Karen Chance en 04-07-16
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Brief Interviews with Hideous Men
- De: David Foster Wallace
- Narrado por: David Foster Wallace, Bobby Cannavale, Michael Cerveris, y otros
- Duración: 4 h y 17 m
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David Foster Wallace made an art of taking readers into places no other writer even gets near. In his exuberantly acclaimed collection, Brief Interviews with Hideous Men, he combines hilarity and an escalating disquiet in stories that astonish, entertain, and expand our ideas of the pleasures that fiction can afford.
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1 out of 5 stars
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This is ABRIDGED
- De Mark en 09-26-09
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Oblivion
- Stories
- De: David Foster Wallace
- Narrado por: Robert Petkoff
- Duración: 14 h y 16 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 306
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In the stories that make up Oblivion, David Foster Wallace joins the rawest, most naked humanity with the infinite involutions of self-consciousness--a combination that is dazzlingly, uniquely his. These are worlds undreamt-of by any other mind. Only David Foster Wallace could convey a father's desperate loneliness by way of his son's daydreaming through a teacher's homicidal breakdown ("The Soul Is Not a Smithy"). Or could explore the deepest and most hilarious aspects of creativity.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Just 2 Fast & Huge & ALL Interconnected 4 Words
- De Darwin8u en 08-22-12
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Consider the Lobster
- And Other Essays
- De: David Foster Wallace
- Narrado por: Robert Petkoff, David Foster Wallace
- Duración: 15 h y 8 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 592
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 495
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Do lobsters feel pain? Did Franz Kafka have a funny bone? What is John Updike's deal, anyway? And what happens when adult video starlets meet their fans in person? David Foster Wallace answers these questions and more in essays that are also enthralling narrative adventures.
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5 out of 5 stars
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How this differs from the other version
- De Jonathan Penley en 12-26-17
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The David Foster Wallace Reader
- De: David Foster Wallace
- Narrado por: Robert Petkoff, David Foster Wallace, Sally Foster Wallace, y otros
- Duración: 48 h y 44 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 218
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 188
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 182
Where do you begin with a writer as original and brilliant as David Foster Wallace? Here - with a carefully considered selection of his extraordinary body of work, chosen by a range of great writers, critics, and those who worked with him most closely. This volume presents his most dazzling, funniest, and most heartbreaking work.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Impossible to use without Chapter Names
- De Ethan Klitzke en 12-04-21
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The Pale King
- De: David Foster Wallace
- Narrado por: Robert Petkoff
- Duración: 19 h y 15 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 666
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 559
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 562
The agents at the IRS Regional Examination Center in Peoria, Illinois, appear ordinary enough to newly arrived trainee David Foster Wallace. But as he immerses himself in a routine so tedious and repetitive that new employees receive boredom-survival training, he learns of the extraordinary variety of personalities drawn to this strange calling. And he has arrived at a moment when forces within the IRS are plotting to eliminate even what little humanity and dignity the work still has.
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4 out of 5 stars
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The King is dead, long live the King!
- De Darwin8u en 10-31-16
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David Foster Wallace: In His Own Words
- De: David Foster Wallace
- Narrado por: David Foster Wallace
- Duración: 8 h y 52 m
- Grabación Original
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 305
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 263
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 260
Collected here for the first time are the stories and speeches of David Foster Wallace as read by the author himself. Over the course of his career, David Foster Wallace recorded a variety of his work in diverse circumstances - from studio recordings to live performances - that are finally compiled in this unique collection.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The best book on Audible!
- De Karen Chance en 04-07-16
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Brief Interviews with Hideous Men
- De: David Foster Wallace
- Narrado por: David Foster Wallace, Bobby Cannavale, Michael Cerveris, y otros
- Duración: 4 h y 17 m
- Highlights
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 506
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 401
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 397
David Foster Wallace made an art of taking readers into places no other writer even gets near. In his exuberantly acclaimed collection, Brief Interviews with Hideous Men, he combines hilarity and an escalating disquiet in stories that astonish, entertain, and expand our ideas of the pleasures that fiction can afford.
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1 out of 5 stars
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This is ABRIDGED
- De Mark en 09-26-09
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Oblivion
- Stories
- De: David Foster Wallace
- Narrado por: Robert Petkoff
- Duración: 14 h y 16 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 306
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In the stories that make up Oblivion, David Foster Wallace joins the rawest, most naked humanity with the infinite involutions of self-consciousness--a combination that is dazzlingly, uniquely his. These are worlds undreamt-of by any other mind. Only David Foster Wallace could convey a father's desperate loneliness by way of his son's daydreaming through a teacher's homicidal breakdown ("The Soul Is Not a Smithy"). Or could explore the deepest and most hilarious aspects of creativity.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Just 2 Fast & Huge & ALL Interconnected 4 Words
- De Darwin8u en 08-22-12
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The Broom of the System
- A Novel
- De: David Foster Wallace
- Narrado por: Robert Petkoff
- Duración: 16 h y 30 m
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At the center of The Broom of the System is the betwitching (and also bewildered) heroine, Lenore Stonecipher Beadsman. The year is 1990 and the place is a slightly altered Cleveland, Ohio, which sits on the edge of a suburban wasteland-the Great Ohio Desert. Lenore works as a switchboard attendant at a publishing firm, and in addition to her mind-numbing job, she has a few other problems. Her great-grandmother, a one-time student of Wittgenstein, has disappeared with twenty-five other inmates of the Shaker Heights Nursing Home.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Evidence I WASTED my College years.
- De Darwin8u en 04-18-12
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On Tennis
- Five Essays
- De: David Foster Wallace
- Narrado por: Robert Petkoff
- Duración: 5 h y 59 m
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From the author of Infinite Jest and Consider the Lobster: A collection of five brilliant essays on tennis, from the author's own experience as a junior player to his celebrated profile of Roger Federer at the peak of his powers. A "long-time rabid fan of tennis," and a regionally ranked tennis player in his youth, David Foster Wallace wrote about the game like no one else. On Tennis presents David Foster Wallace's five essays on the sport, published between 1990 and 2006, and hailed as some of the greatest and most innovative sports writing of our time.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Inspiration, though, is contagious, and multiform
- De Darwin8u en 01-27-17
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Everything and More
- A Compact History of Infinity
- De: David Foster Wallace
- Narrado por: Robert Petkoff
- Duración: 12 h y 29 m
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Part history, part philosophy, part love letter to the study of mathematics, Everything and More is an illuminating tour of infinity. With his infectious curiosity and trademark verbal pyrotechnics, David Foster Wallace takes us from Aristotle to Newton, Leibniz, Karl Weierstrass, and finally Georg Cantor and his set theory. Through it all, Wallace proves to be an ideal guide - funny, wry, and unfailingly enthusiastic. Featuring an introduction by Neal Stephenson, this edition is a perfect introduction to the beauty of mathematics and the undeniable strangeness of the infinite.
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Equations via audio are tuff
- De Brian E. en 03-08-22
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Infinite Jest
- De: David Foster Wallace, Dave Eggers
- Narrado por: Sean Pratt
- Duración: 64 h y 11 m
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Set in an addicts' halfway house and a tennis academy, and featuring the most endearingly screwed-up family to come along in recent fiction, Infinite Jest explores essential questions about what entertainment is and why it has come to so dominate our lives; about how our desire for entertainment affects our need to connect with other people; and about what the pleasures we choose say about who we are.
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With footnotes!
- De George Saris en 04-25-24
De: David Foster Wallace, y otros
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Consider the Lobster (A Story from Consider the Lobster)
- De: David Foster Wallace
- Narrado por: David Foster Wallace
- Duración: 3 h y 48 m
- Versión resumida
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Long renowned as one of the smartest writers on the loose, David Foster Wallace reveals himself in Consider the Lobster to be also one of the funniest. In this program, he ranges far and farther in his search for the original, the curious, or the merely mystifying. He discovers the World's Largest Lobster Cooker at the Maine Lobster Festival and confronts the inevitable question just beyond the butter-or-cocktail-sauce quandary.
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David Foster Wallace...a good place to start
- De Rick en 11-25-08
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Both Flesh and Not
- Essays
- De: David Foster Wallace
- Narrado por: Robert Petkoff, Katherine Kellgren
- Duración: 9 h y 59 m
- Versión completa
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Beloved for his epic agony, brilliantly discerning eye, and hilarious and constantly self-questioning tone, David Foster Wallace was heralded by both critics and fans as the voice of a generation. Both Flesh and Not gathers 15 essays never published in book form, including "Federer Both Flesh and Not", considered by many to be his nonfiction masterpiece; "The (As it Were) Seminal Importance of Terminator 2", which deftly dissects James Cameron's blockbuster; and more.
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Both Perfect and Not
- De Darwin8u en 02-16-13
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This Is Water: The Original David Foster Wallace Recording
- De: David Foster Wallace
- Narrado por: David Foster Wallace
- Duración: 24 m
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Only once did David Foster Wallace give a public talk on his views on life, during a commencement address given in 2005 at Kenyon College. This is the audio recording of David Foster Wallace delivering that very address. How does one keep from going through their comfortable, prosperous adult life unconsciously? How do we get ourselves out of the foreground of our thoughts and achieve compassion? The speech captures Wallace's electric intellect as well as his grace in attention to others.
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The best 20 minutes of my life.
- De John Nosal en 10-09-12
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Signifying Rappers
- De: Mark Costello, David Foster Wallace
- Narrado por: Robert Petkoff
- Duración: 5 h y 42 m
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Finally back in print - David Foster Wallace and Mark Costello's exuberant exploration of rap music and culture. Living together in Cambridge in 1989, David Foster Wallace and longtime friend Mark Costello discovered that they shared "an uncomfortable, somewhat furtive, and distinctively white enthusiasm for a certain music called rap/hip-hop." The book they wrote together, set against the legendary Boston music scene, mapped the bipolarities of rap and pop, rebellion and acceptance, glitz and gangsterdom.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Signifying Roomates
- De Darwin8u en 08-08-13
De: Mark Costello, y otros
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Girl with Curious Hair
- Stories
- De: David Foster Wallace
- Narrado por: Robert Petkoff
- Duración: 14 h y 15 m
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From the eerily "real", almost holographic evocations of historical figures like Lyndon Johnson and over-televised game-show hosts and late-night comedians to the title story, in which terminal punk nihilism meets Young Republicanism, David Foster Wallace renders the incredible comprehensible, the bizarre normal, the absurd hilarious, and the familiar strange.
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4 out of 5 stars
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This book is not NOT a Datsun!
- De Darwin8u en 04-15-12
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Every Love Story Is a Ghost Story
- A Life of David Foster Wallace
- De: D. T. Max
- Narrado por: Malcolm Hillgartner
- Duración: 12 h y 25 m
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David Foster Wallace was the leading literary light of his generation, a man who not only captivated readers with his prose but also mesmerized them with his brilliant mind. In this, the first biography of the writer, D. T. Max sets out to chart Wallace’s tormented, anguished, and often triumphant battle to succeed as a novelist as he fights off depression and addiction to emerge with his masterpiece, Infinite Jest.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Max avoids hagiography or a sycophant's biography
- De Darwin8u en 06-11-13
De: D. T. Max
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White Noise
- De: Don DeLillo
- Narrado por: Michael Prichard
- Duración: 12 h y 48 m
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When an industrial accident unleashes an "airborne toxic event", a lethal black chemical cloud floats over the Gladneys' lives. The menacing cloud is a more urgent and visible version of the "white noise" engulfing the Gladneys - radio transmissions, sirens, microwaves, ultrasonic appliances, and TV murmurings - pulsing with life yet suggesting something ominous.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Designed to be analyzed by an English class
- De RI in Canada en 10-15-16
De: Don DeLillo
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David Lynch
- The Man from Another Place (Icons)
- De: Dennis Lim
- Narrado por: Jeff Cummings
- Duración: 6 h y 45 m
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At once a pop culture icon, cult figure, and film industry outsider, master filmmaker David Lynch and his work defy easy definition. Dredged from his subconscious mind, Lynch's work is primed to act on our own subconscious, combining heightened, contradictory emotions into something familiar but inscrutable. No less than his art, Lynch's life also evades simple categorization, encompassing pursuits as a musician, painter, photographer, carpenter, entrepreneur, and vocal proponent of Transcendental Meditation.
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Essential listening for Lunch fans
- De Michael P. Mesaros en 08-14-18
De: Dennis Lim
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again
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- Amazon Customer
- 04-16-16
The title reflects expectations
Wallace's prose toes the line between measured and verbose. Garcia makes the humor absolutely pop.
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- D. Ofallon
- 11-06-13
Brilliant writer/pitch perfect narration
This is a excellent book of essays, narrated beautifully, bringing out all of David Foster Wallace's remarkable humor and irony. I am looking forward to more books narrated by Paul Garcia.
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- Amazon Customer
- 10-29-22
Terrible Reader
The guy reading this doesn’t understand what he’s reading and so can’t modulate his voice in a way that makes sense. Totally off-putting. Basically unlistenable.
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- MTH
- 03-02-17
Yes. Good listen.
Good audiobook. Reader was expressive and seemed to get DFW's sense of humor.
Good essays.
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- Bill at Torg Stories
- 03-01-13
Life Through David Foster Wallace's Eyes
I waited a little too long to write this review, but here we go: I'm from Indiana and grew up playing basketball, and I enjoyed Wallace describing his years travelling the Midwest and the dodgy style of gritty tennis he played. He relished the heat, the bugs, and the surprise gusts of wind while others complained of their foul luck. Memorable pieces on the IL state fair and a trip on a luxury cruise liner. Listened to this as I read Michael Martone's The Flatness and Other Landscapes. A good pair.
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- eabbel
- 11-21-18
brilliant but dated material
this sounded like the narrator's first read; he did not know how to pronounce several words and proper names, and mis-read the emphasis in long sentences. as ever, Hachette is too lazy to align "chapters" with any meaningful divisions within the book, even in this, a collection of essays with titled sub-sections! so the chapter segments are typically meaningless and unhelpful.
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- Jeremy
- 09-08-12
A Collection of Clever Observations
Would you listen to A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again again? Why?
Yes. I would like to experience a few of the essay's topics then listen to these essays again.
What was the most compelling aspect of this narrative?
The author's attention to details. He has a way of writing a mundane occurrence in a way that makes you feel like you too should be getting more out of how you view life.
Did you have an extreme reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?
I really appreciated a theme mentioned in at two of the essays of how millions of people are being sold the concept of individualism.
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- Lori Borchers
- 06-24-24
Great variety
I love the eclectic nature of this collection, and DFW’s writing is so logical, yet poetic and creative. I’m very excited to read Infinite Jest (although the size scares me) and to listen to more of his collections. The performance threw me off at first, as it’s not quite how I imagined DFW’s vibe to be represented, but I got used to it quickly. Also, starting off the book with two tennis essays was rough for pacing.
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- Ben
- 01-07-20
Started 2020 Right
A fantastic collection! Audible needs to organize the files by essay/story though, not randomly by chunks of 30-50 minutes.
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- William F.
- 03-16-24
Great Book
Wildly entertaining at best and kind of boring at worst. David Lynch Keeps His Head, the excerpt from E Unibus Pluram and Shipping Out are the highlights for me. What is to be said that has not been said already?
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