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A review by littlebabyducks
This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life by David Foster Wallace
3.0
Maybe this wasn't the best thing to pick up for my very first David Foster Wallace experience.
Honestly, I didn't even mean to. But it was on my kitchen counter, and I opened it to read just a line or two and read the whole thing instead.
Do I agree with what he said? Well, yeah.
The really important kind of freedom involves attention, and awareness, and discipline, and effort, and being able truly to care about other people and to sacrifice for them, over and over, in myriad petty little unsexy ways, every day.
But I was also thinking that most of what was said should be pretty obvious. But maybe it's obvious because I'm no longer in my early twenties, an age of not quite understanding that darn "day in, day out" yet. I think what was said was pretty important for these little whippersnappers...er...young adults to hear.
I think I would have loved this more if I had already loved this author when I read it. And maybe someday that will happen after I crack open the other half dozen books I bought by him, and I'll come back and change my rating.
3.5 Stars
Honestly, I didn't even mean to. But it was on my kitchen counter, and I opened it to read just a line or two and read the whole thing instead.
Do I agree with what he said? Well, yeah.
The really important kind of freedom involves attention, and awareness, and discipline, and effort, and being able truly to care about other people and to sacrifice for them, over and over, in myriad petty little unsexy ways, every day.
But I was also thinking that most of what was said should be pretty obvious. But maybe it's obvious because I'm no longer in my early twenties, an age of not quite understanding that darn "day in, day out" yet. I think what was said was pretty important for these little whippersnappers...er...young adults to hear.
I think I would have loved this more if I had already loved this author when I read it. And maybe someday that will happen after I crack open the other half dozen books I bought by him, and I'll come back and change my rating.
3.5 Stars