January 22, 2010 in 5 Minute Book Review
Infinite Jest, written by David Foster Wallace in 1996, is 1,079 pages long. The book measures about 4½ x 6 inches and weighs close to two pounds. The softcover costs $18 in the US. There is cloud imagery on the cover and the title appears to be on a slant.
Someone once told me that sex sells, so please see the picture to left and then buy this book from me.
Thank you.
by Vaquero
September 23, 2009 in Wordsmoker Book Club
Holy shit, book fight club meets next week. I’m on page 89. I know! I’m so fucked. What have I been doing with the time I could be reading? Playing Pet Society on Facebook. You get this little pet that you create yourself and you play with it for coins and you run in the trees for coins and race for coins and visit friends for coins and fish for paw points and touch your pet’s poop for money, grow vegetables that take nine freaking days to grow into mucho deniro and then you buy shit. But this world is freaking expensive. So let’s say you make money by playing ball with your pet. You get one coin for every five successful tosses. But a cute dress costs 600 coins. That’s a lot of ball tossing. See where my time goes? Read the rest of this entry →
July 12, 2009 in 5 Minute Book Review
Wraith
Well, VirusWithShoes will enjoy the discussion of the wraith. According to my uncle Wikipedia and OED, the word’s origin is a Scottish dialectical word for ghost or apparition. Occurring in the hospital room, where Don Gately, intubated, unable to speak and writhing in so much pain that he’s really unable to use any pantomiming to communicate, the wraith appears and disappears so often that Gately himself isn’t sure if it’s real or not.
July 11, 2009 in 5 Minute Book Review
Time
Occurring in the future, but based on approximations, not off from our current place on the good old Gregorian, the years have given way to being numbered. Rather they are subsidized and purchased by corporations. Thus naming rights are afforded to these corporations.
This concept cements the reality that corporations can purchase (and name) just about anything; sports arenas, sporting events.
July 8, 2009 in 5 Minute Book Review
Addiction
The main character at Ennet House is counselor Don Gately, former Demerol addict (Percocet in long-term use aggravated the backs of his eyes too much. The evolution of addiction described by Gately is not one uncommon to many. Beginning at a young and impressionable age, marijuana, pills.
July 7, 2009 in 5 Minute Book Review
Suicide
A number of characters in the novel commit suicide; that is to say, in, DFW lingo, “eliminate their own maps.” The methods employed by these characters displays quite the creativity by the author.
July 6, 2009 in 5 Minute Book Review
For anyone who hasn’t read it, stop reading this ridiculous review and go buy it. I’ll wait.
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Ok. Everyone else, gather round, let me tell you my story about DFW and IJ.
(There will be spoilers, so if you haven’t read it, please know that.)
First off. This is quite the book. At 1,078 pages, including voluminous footnotes, it’s an undertaking. I have been eyeing this book for more years than I care to count, but have always been intimidated, too busy, reading something else; essentially, I’ve always come up with a reasonable excuse to not read it.
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