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I'll start by dumping most of my priority TBR list here:
1. Moby Dick
2. The Brother's Karamazov
3. The Broom of the System
4. A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
5. If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
6. Palm Sunday
7. Mason and Dixon
8. The Adventures ...
#46: Infinite Jest is definitely something to be proud of. I read The Broom of the System a couple of years ago and loved it. I hope to read Infinite Jest in 2010 (group read begins March '10 in Le Salon Litteraire). If I keep tackling long books, I'll never get through my TBR stacks, but then, ...
... Myth. I should write a review/essay for it within the next few days...
I am now reading 'Salem's Lot. I am still on The Broom of the System , which is quite good. I need to start a book I borrowed from a friend called A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail. O ...
... Beheading
The Human Factor
The Bonfire of the Vanities
Amazon giftcard went to
Gilead
The Guns of August
The Broom of the System
This whole "reduce the amount of books I own that I need to read" plan isn't working out.
Just started The Broom of the System . David Foster Wallace was brilliant. This isn't one of his best (so far), but it's still a stellar read.
Just finished The Wonder Spot last night. Now I'm about to start The Broom of the System --it's been on my TBR list for ages.
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I finished the King novel (for the second time) Needful Things. Now, I shall continue with the HIGHLY entertaining The Broom of the System .
... other book, Mason and Dixon!
How has no one listed Catch-22???
While Infinite Jest sho' is a funny book, The Broom of the System is way ahead of it, comedy-wise. You can tell he was a huge Pynchon junkie when he wrote it; their senses of humour are virtually identical.
I ...
The 10 funniest books I have read, in very rough order:
Straight Man - Richard Russo
The Broom of the System - David Foster Wallace
Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
Emma - Jane Austen
A Room With a View - E.M. Forster
the short stories of Saki--"The Stampeding of Lady Bastabl ...
... think we're going to let you off the hook and not hopefully coerce you into revealing those "deeply personal reasons" for The Broom of the System ?
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7. V by Pynchon, because it was the best experience of my first semester of college and so had a lasting impact.
7. The Broom of the System , for deeply personal reasons best not revealed
8. Swann's Way plus the Kafka thing about the bug - yes, there was a girl involved in this choice ...
... a very snarky book.
Nonetheless, I left the book in my downtown office and I am off site right now...
So, I started The Broom of the System since I was without Needful things. I must say, Wallace's fictional introduction is quite...well, it just seems like he did not like very many ...
... & Girl with Curious Hair by David Foster Wallace - first editions, both of them--for cheap. Now...if only I could find Broom of the System ...
-Nog by Rudolph Wurlitzer - just found this yesterday completely by accident.
... himself, nevertheless struggled mightily with drugs and booze in his mid-twenties after the success of his first novel, The Broom of the System left him feeling quite - I guess an accurate if cliched word would be - "empty." Infinite Jest could just as readily be titled "Infinite Emptiness," ...
Ohh, I like this first-time novelist idearrrr. :))))
-The Illuminatus! Trilogy (counted as 1)
-Catch-22
-V.
-The Broom of the System
-You Shall Know Our Velocity!
-Watership down
-Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up To Me
-One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
-A Confederacy of ...
I am reading The Broom of the System and still finishing This House of Brede.
... of the Dog I loved Three Men in a Boat and Three Men on a Bummel I will have to peek at it.
I am now reading The Broom of the System very quirky. I had not read David Foster Wallace's fiction before - only non-fiction.
... springs to mind is David Foster Wallace. If you don't have the time or energy for his 1100-page Infinite Jest, I suggest The Broom of the System . It's one of the funniest books I've ever read, and black as hell.
... to be both extremely funny and very touching--this is one of my favorite novels, and I recommend it to everyone I know)
The Broom of the System by David Foster Wallace (I read certain scenes out loud to my husband--parts of them I could barely make it through because I was wiping tears from ...
... Chronicles (to see if the three after Interview hold up to my memories of teenage adoration, some fifteen years ago)
The Broom of the System
White Noise
The Wind Up Bird Chronicle
The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana
Gravity's Rainbow, or at the very least, The Crying of Lot 49 ...
... part of his life. I highly recommend Infinite Jest and look forward to reading your thoughts when you have finished. The Broom of the System , which I read a couple of months ago, is very good too.
> 29 mrspenny, I've been planning on reading Joe Cinque's Consolation for about a year ...
... (And I know, I know what's coming. I'm prepared. *sob*) Also David Foster Wallace's Lenore Stonecipher Beadsman, from The Broom of the System . She is practically a carbon copy of a longtime real-life friend of mine. To borrow from the Bombardini restaurant scene, she has "spunk."
... it won't be easy. :) Wittgenstein stuff makes a good companion to David Foster Wallace, methinks--at least it would with Broom of the System . Not sure about Infinite Jest.
I have about 30 pages to go in The Broom of the System by David Foster Wallace. The beginning was great, the middle was so-so, but I've been flying through the last 100 pages or so because it's gotten very interesting. Can't wait for the train ride home to finish it!
I am also about half-way ...
... a novel to short stories but find that you don't have the stamina at the moment for Infinite Jest, I highly recommend The Broom of the System . It's one of my favorite novels. I've heard lots of folks describe it as "Infinite Jest-Lite." (I haven't read IJ yet. Probably next year--right ...
... I liked it again. Overall, I liked it for more pages than I was "eh" about, so it was a good read.
I'm going to start The Broom of the System by David Foster Wallace this afternoon. Hooray!
... in a funk and they cheered me up, so it was well worth it.
From The Book Depository (nicely packaged this time too):
The Broom of the System
Girl with Curious Hair
A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again
Consider the Lobster: And Other Essays
Brief Interviews with Hideous ...
#86 & 94 - The Broom of the System reads very much like Infinite Jest-lite. It's good, but it's a 5k as opposed to IJ's marathon. Interesting note that I didn't know until this past week: Wallace wrote two undergrad thesises - one on philosophy and the other was Broom.
The Wallace ...
>86, I read Infinite Jest earlier this year and loved it. I've heard good things about The Broom of the System and your recommendation was so enthusiastic that I'll definitely be reading it next.
>87, glad it's not just me that feels that way. Perhaps my main problem is that I'm reading it ...
... Foster Wallace's books winging their way to me from the UK at the moment, and when they arrive I think I'll start on The Broom of the System .
I meant some time ago to put in my two cents for David Foster Wallace's The Broom of the System on this thread. I got my reminder, I guess. It's one of the funniest books I've ever read--every time I read it my face hurts from smiling and laughing so much. I hear Infinite Jest is funny as ...
... Foster Wallace on the brain, and it occurred to me that I didn't think I'd ever seen him on the "funny books" threads. The Broom of the System is one of the funniest books I've ever read. I pulled it off the shelf recently to read the Norman Bombardini restaurant scene to my husband, and ...
I just saw a tiny article about this in the newspaper and am stunned. He could be a maddening writer (the ending of The Broom of the System being a case in point), but he was an amazingly gifted one with a voice like no other. I am so sad about this.
... Jest, as I haven't tackled it myself yet. BUT, if you do end up abandoning it, I encourage you to give his first novel, The Broom of the System , a try. I hear that it's something like Infinite Jest Lite, and I really enjoyed it. It's one of the funniest books I've ever read.
10. The Broom of the System by david foster wallace
Great little read while waiting for his new book to come out. Kinda like Infinite Jest lite.
11. Blood meridian by Cormac McCarthy
I would hate to view what Cormac McCarthy sees when he closes his eyes at night. This book's ...
... Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash and The Diamond Age, Connie Willis' To Say Nothing of the Dog, David Foster Wallace's The Broom of the System , Kobo Abe's Friends: a Play, and Peter Hoeg's The Quiet Girl.
I will probably read another book or two before the year ends. I'll probably ...
The Broom of the System was the first David Foster Wallace book I ever read. He ended it in the middle of a sentence. I was enjoying the book up until then, but I felt completely ripped off by the ending.
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