antw. Re: w.a.s.t.e. recommendations

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Marcelo Ketelhuth schrieb:

> - David Foster Wallace's "Brief Interviews with Hideous Men"


  i like "girl with curious hair" better; BIwHM is, for my taste, partly   
  overdone ( - take the 'meta-meta-fiction' stuff in "octet"). but as a coherent 
  collection of prose pieces it's certainly a very complex composition and there 
  are, like in "infinite jest" (of which i have read now about 1/4 ), many gems 
  to find. i'm still not sure what to think of wallace ... kai 

  ps. "I kept flashing back to a weak joke during a freshman religion survey we 
  all had to take as an undergrad: the mystic approaches the hot-dog stand and 
  tells the vendor Make me one with everything." (p. 265, abacus edition)