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The Pale King by David Foster Wallace
3.0

Well, it was interesting, for sure. I really appreciated the overarching theory and exploration of boredom--that if you can conquer boredom, you can do anything. However, it is painful to explore boredom by reading the detailed the boredom of the work lives of IRS workers. However, the back stories are amazing. Except that many of them involve bullying, which is difficult for me to read about. The writing is sometimes really remarkable. Wallace died while writing this long unfinished novel, but it doesn't seem incomplete. I had mixed feelings about it, obviously. The bookstore said they can't keep this or any of the stuff on the shelves.