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A review by mattstebbins
Although of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself: A Road Trip with David Foster Wallace by David Lipsky
2.0
Lipsky's had the opportunity to write about DFW with quiet skill in the past; Rolling Stone then killed the assignment. With this book, though, I can't help but wish Lipsky'd been edited as it might have, had RS chosen to run it. There are moments of great gravity, dense specifics scattered throughout - but most of the time, unedited reads as unedited.
(Save yourself time and frustration; you're better off just reading this: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/30/books/review/Kalfus-t.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all And yes, I realize the whole stream-of-consciousness transcription was supposed to be reflective of DFW's thought process, etc, etc, but I don't care. That's just like my opinion, man.)
[2.5 stars for the hope of what editing might have done.]
(Save yourself time and frustration; you're better off just reading this: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/30/books/review/Kalfus-t.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all And yes, I realize the whole stream-of-consciousness transcription was supposed to be reflective of DFW's thought process, etc, etc, but I don't care. That's just like my opinion, man.)
[2.5 stars for the hope of what editing might have done.]