Consider the Lobster

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• David Foster Wallace - Consider the Lobster

  Would you like to read an in-depth analysis of an adult-video awards ceremony? Have you ever pondered the lobsters’ plight during Maine’s largest food festival? Do you want to ride along the campaign trail with a presidential candidate, or learn abou ... (read full critics)

  thebookhaven published on Sat, 2 Oct 2010

• The Postmodern Moralist

  Reading David Foster Wallace's new collection of magazine articles, you could be forgiven for thinking that the author of such defiantly experimental fictions as "Infinite Jest" (1996) and "Oblivion" (2004) has been an old-fashioned moralist in postm ... (read full critics)

  nytimes published on Fri, 17 Sep 2010

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  As an ace in tennis

  He could write of everything, with an insight nobody had.

  The article about John Ziegler is sheer joy; similarly interesting is the reportage of McCaine's 2000 run for the Republican primaries.

  Probably the article that is not so good as the others is the one in which Foster Wallace reports his pu ... (continue)

  He could write of everything, with an insight nobody had.

  The article about John Ziegler is sheer joy; similarly interesting is the reportage of McCaine's 2000 run for the Republican primaries.

  Probably the article that is not so good as the others is the one in which Foster Wallace reports his punctual disappointment with sport celebrities' biographies. He writes he always wanted to know what made their game different from ours, but could never find it.

  He was probably just looking for the thing that made his mind so different from ours. The factor that transformed his words into enlightened sentences. Simple as it seemed, out of a supernova: just an explosion of unexplainable energy to justify it, and unbeatable. As an ace in tennis.

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  RickyMos said on Mar 8, 2010 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

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  ci spezza il cuore dirlo, ma non tutto quello che wallace ha scritto va necessariamente pubblicato e letto.

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  Jim Troeltsch said on Jan 19, 2012 about the Paperback edition | 1 feedback

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  David Foster Wallace is an astounding writer. So clever and with so much humanity. The piece on 9/11 is incredibly moving in a refreshing way. Also an hilarious/disturbing piece on the annual porno awards night in las vegas and a revealing article about the psychology of a professional tennis player ... (continue)

  David Foster Wallace is an astounding writer. So clever and with so much humanity. The piece on 9/11 is incredibly moving in a refreshing way. Also an hilarious/disturbing piece on the annual porno awards night in las vegas and a revealing article about the psychology of a professional tennis player.

  Some of the essays were a bit dense for my tastes, but the above 3 are some of the most amazing non-fiction I have ever read. The title piece Consider the Lobster is a good companion essay to Eating Animals by Jontathon Safran Foer

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  Yetanotherband said on Jul 27, 2010 | Add your feedback

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  Some of the essays included in this book give you an idea on the reason David Foster Wallace is a genius (i.e. the one on John McCain and the one on the Lobster), some other are pretty boring (i.e. the one on the radio station).

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  Matteo Bianchini said on May 24, 2010 | Add your feedback

• An interesting book, enjoyed reading all the wildly different scenarios..

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  Simon Newstead said on Jul 6, 2008 | Add your feedback

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• English Books
• Hardcover 352 Pages
• ISBN-10: 0316156116
• ISBN-13: 9780316156110
• Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
• Pub date: Dec 13, 2005
• Dimensions: 1548 mm x 1032 mm x 194 mm Just how big is that?
• Also available as: Paperback, Audio CD and Others

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