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Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield
I liked A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again. This led me to buy Broom of the System, which I simply could not finish.
For some reason I have been gifted multiple copies of Consider the Lobster. I should probably read one of them one of these days.
Infinite Jest is just too much a commitment. And too many people whom I've later determined have poor taste in literature have insisted it's the greatest book of all time.
BTW, if you read the econ pundits, Tyler Cowen really shit the bed with his latest, Big Business. It reads like something written by Steve Forbes and group of novice conservative anthropologists.
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Infinite Jest is an early draft of his suicide note. It is incredibly sad. Consider the Lobster is a great airplane book, full of little bites you can snack on.
The central character in Broom, Lenore, is pretty recognizable to those of us who were there. The person the character is based on typed his thesis, which was the first draft of the book, so she gave him input on her own character.
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