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1.		Infinite Jest from Back Bay Books Price: $12.23 Customer Review: In any case, that's what I tell people who ask me which book is my favorite: this happens more often than you'd think, as I work in a bookstore. I first read Infinite Jest in the middle of high school: it was assigned reading for one of my classes [an optional class, but I'd thought the book... more info	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


2.		Consider the Lobster: And Other Essays from Back Bay Books Price: $10.19 Customer Review: I never received the book. Wrote to the guy and he said he'd re-send it. I think I'll see Santa Claus first.	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


3.		A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments from Back Bay Books Price: $10.19 Customer Review: For those new to DFW, perhaps aware of him due to the tragic news of his recent death, this is a great place to start. This book collects essays he wrote for Harper's, Premier Magazine, and others. After DFW made his fiction bones, some genius editor (Lewis Lapham maybe?) guessed that he would make... more info	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


4.		The Broom of the System from Penguin (Non-Classics) Price: $10.37 Customer Review: David's early book titles apparently have little to do with the subject matter, much like a song from REM, whose lyrics have nothing to do with anything at all, other than they sound good. Don't expect to learn what is 'The Broom of the System' by reading this book. What you should expect is a... more info	Customer Rating: 3.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


5.		Brief Interviews with Hideous Men: Stories from Little, Brown and Company Price: $19.20 Customer Review: I am still absorbing the news that David Foster Wallace apparently took his own life this weekend. He was 46. I vividly recall my experience reading "Brief Interviews with Hideous Men," because these short short stories are both insightful and laugh out loud funny. Wallace had a keen... more info	Customer Rating: 3.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


6.		Girl With Curious Hair from W. W. Norton & Company Price: $10.17 Customer Review: David Foster Wallace is one of those really bad writers who decided, long ago, that he would hide his lack of talent, acumen, and skill behind a blizzard of words, then laugh at anyone unwilling to engage them as not understanding his genius. This is a symptom of what is known as Postmodernism. The... more info	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


7.		Oblivion: Stories from Back Bay Books Price: $10.19 Customer Review: This is fiction of a style I would label A.D.D. prose: there is very little action yet we spend pages reading about dribbly insignificant details. It is easy to lose focus while reading this book. Wallace writes sublimely detailed sketches of the characters, but it is only a still life; there is no... more info	Customer Rating: 3.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


8.		The Best American Essays 2007 (Edition 001) from Houghton Mifflin Price: $10.68 Customer Review: I had to get this for an English class. I ordered it off Amazon because the University Book Store didn't have any. It is, however, pretty good considering it's required reading...	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


9.		Everything and More: A Compact History of Infinity (Great Discoveries) from W. W. Norton & Company Price: $10.17 Customer Review: Since DFW has committed suicide, we will not see an edition revised by him. In re-reading the reviews, it appears that style means a lot. I personally found the book witty. It was a little slow sometimes because of the convolutions he introduced in style, but mostly I kept plowing (and chuckling)... more info	Customer Rating: 3.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


10.		McCain's Promise: Aboard the Straight Talk Express with John McCain and a Whole Bunch of Actual Reporters, Thinking About Hope from Back Bay Books Price: $7.49 Customer Review: ...this essay, wonderful as it is, is a little outdated and, now, some of the things that DFW has written about mccain are patently false (eg: being locked in a box in the hanoi hilton for 4 years. yes, he was there, but he was not kept "in a box" every single day, as dfw says.) it's interesting,... more info	Customer Rating: 3.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


11.		Signifying Rappers: Rap and Race in the Urban Present from Ecco Pr Customer Review: Yes this book is outdated, and yes this book is wordy, but thats what makes it so great. This is an exploration of two nerdy white guys resting on the cusp of what we now know was an cultural explosion, and one which they seem to have known, though at the time it had nothing to do with them that it... more info	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


12.	[no image]	Infinite Jest from Little, Brown & Co.	Click here for more information


13.		Review of Contemporary Fiction (Spring 1996): The Future of Fiction, A Forum Edited by David Foster Wallace from Dalkey Archive Press	Click here for more information


14.		A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again from Abacus	Click here for more information


15.		Open City Number Five : Change or Die (Open City) from Open City Books Customer Review: How is it that the Final Opus of Leon Solomon is out of print in both hardcover and paperback? The book's author, Jerome Badanes, died halfway through the sequel to The Final Opus of Leon Solomon. What he had written, and revised himself, was a pretty amazing 100 page novella called Change or Die... more info	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


16.		Up, Simba! from Little, Brown and Company Price: $3.99 Customer Review: It's fun to read DFW on my computer because when I come across one of the excessively big words that his Disneyworld-sized vocabulary has littered on the page, I can click on the word and find out what it means. DFW is a super smart writer. This is Wallace on Politics, and never are his ideas... more info	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


17.		Thomas Demand: L'Esprit d'Escalier from Walther Konig Price: $45.98	Click here for more information


18.		Consider the Lobster from Abacus	Click here for more information


19.		Consider the Lobster: And Other Essays from Little, Brown and Company	Click here for more information


20.		HABLEMOS DE LANGOSTAS from DEBOLS LLO	Click here for more information

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