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gardnerhere 's review for:
The Broom of the System
by David Foster Wallace
Probably not the place to start with DFW's fiction. He wrote it as a precocious and hella ambitious 24yr-old, and you can tell. Sprawling, scattered, often emotionally hollow, and still just amazing enough often enough to keep you slogging through the many didactic and thin dialogues about Self and Other and Membranes Between and Wittgenstein and blahdiblahdiblah. It's exactly the kind of plodding, over-written bildungsroman that gets branded as "promising". Somewhere, I feel sure, he cranked out fiction that is or is nearly the equal of his non-fiction. I'll find it.