' About halfway through after starting this on the plane. ' Never found any redeeming value to this convoluted piece of nothing.

i haven't read anything else by Wallace, there is something about him that is annoying, a little bit. Overall Performance: Narration Rating: Story Rating:.“A prodigiously inventive, hugely funny writer whose best work challenges and reinvents the art of fiction.” - Atlanta Journal Constitution Offbeat and inventive, it’s filled with some of the most deadly accurate contemporary dialogue ever captured in print…You’re in for a good time.” - Cleveland Plain Dealer “Wonderful…outlandish…The Broom of the System stands apart from the. Wallace has something to say about society, something heedful.” - Philadelphia Inquirer “Gut splitting laughs…runs the gamut from sex to TV preachers, from Gilligan’s Island to Wittgensteinian philosophy…Beneath poetry, beneath the bubbling humor, something sinister is cooking.

“Wonderful…a cathartic experience with lots of laughs and lots of deeper meanings.” - Washington Post Book World “Remarkable…hip but true…emerging from the tradition of Thomas Pynchon’s V and John Irving’s The World According to Garp.” - New York Times Book Review Wallace possesses a wealth of talents-a finely tuned ear for contemporary idioms an old-fashioned storytelling gift a seemingly endless capacity for invention and an energetic refusal to compromise.” - New York Times It's not the best of his works, but a great read and on I'd recommend.'

Confusing at times as all DFW is, raucously funny in others, and awe-inspiring in its use of language. Her great-grandmother, a one-time student of Wittgenstein, has disappeared with twenty-five other inmates of the Shaker Heights Nursing Home her beau (and boss), editor-in-chief Rick Vigorous, is insanely jealous and her cockatiel, Vlad the Impaler, has suddenly started spouting a mixture of psychobabble, Auden, and the King James Bible, which may propel him to stardom on a Christian fundamentalist television program.įiercely intelligent and entertaining, this debut novel from one of the most innovative writers of our generation explores the paradoxes of language, storytelling, and reality. Lenore works as a switchboard attendant at a publishing firm, and in addition to her mind-numbing job, she has a few other problems. The year is 1990, and the place is a slightly altered Cleveland, Ohio, which sits on the edge of a suburban wasteland-the Great Ohio Desert. The 'dazzling, exhilarating' ( San Francisco Chronicle) debut novel from the bestselling author of Infinite Jest is finally available as an audiobook!Īt the center of The Broom of the System is the bewitching-and bewildered-heroine, Lenore Stonecipher Beadsman.

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