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A review by maddie_reads_stuff
Brief Interviews with Hideous Men by David Foster Wallace
3.0
A collection of short stories interspersed with (fictional, I hope) “brief interviews.”
The “hideous men” are at the very least hideous in personality if not also in looks. You don’t escape this book without having many skeptical or disgusted thoughts that, as soon as you have thought them, are explicitly acknowledged and expanded upon by the character/narrator. Every tiny possibility of an aside is thought through and dragged out…
Warning: DFW is not afraid of describing body functions in intimate detail, so squeamish people be warned. Really. So gross.
Also: There are many words not included in the Kindle dictionary. Was DFW trying to outdo Shakespeare for number of words added to the English language? Perhaps so.
The “hideous men” are at the very least hideous in personality if not also in looks. You don’t escape this book without having many skeptical or disgusted thoughts that, as soon as you have thought them, are explicitly acknowledged and expanded upon by the character/narrator. Every tiny possibility of an aside is thought through and dragged out…
Warning: DFW is not afraid of describing body functions in intimate detail, so squeamish people be warned. Really. So gross.
Also: There are many words not included in the Kindle dictionary. Was DFW trying to outdo Shakespeare for number of words added to the English language? Perhaps so.