Consider the Lobster and Other Essays
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- ISBN13: 9780316013321
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- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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Do lobsters feel pain? Did Franz Kafka have a amusing bone? What is John Updike’s deal, anyway? And what happens when adult video starlets meet their fans in person? David Foster Wallace answers these questions and more in essays that are also enchanting narrative adventures. Whether covering the three-ring circus of a vicious presidential race, plunging into the wars between glossary writers, or confronting the World’s Largest Lobster Cooker at the annual Maine Lobster Festival, Wallace projects a quality of thought that is uniquely his and a voice as powerful and distinct as any in American letters.
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If your a Professor of English this book might be up your alley. Otherwise, stay away!
The first essay is about an adult film awards show. it’s lengthy and rather hilarious. But the rest of the book is a snoozer.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
I never received the book. Wrote to the guy and he said he’d re-send it. I reflect I’ll see Santa Claus first.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
absolute pap from the king of “witless” wit.
I find this highly offensive, humorless, derivative droll-These essays are obvious to the point of subtlety (if that’s possible?) But then again it all makes sense when one considers the current state of political/cultural/ stagnancy.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
I gave this one star, but I should update it to 2. The essay that attracted me first was on English usage, but it seemed daunting to tackle it. But once I got into it, that alone lifted my rating slightly.
The rest of my early review went like this and is to some extent the same (unless I revise it again!):
I had contemplated getting a Wallace book for a couple of years. I establish my way there in part because of Amazon cross-reference suggestions and such (“people who bought this also bought THIS, etc.) and then I checked into it … from what I read, his theme matter and writing style seemed up my alley.
Maybe this was the incorrect book to take the plunge, so I won’t paint all his work with the same brush. But I establish myself paging through this book, trying to find a excellent starting point. The Updike chapter was mildly appealing, but otherwise …. zzzzzz.
I’m not wasting any more time trying with this one.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
Though this reviewer rarely reads essay collections, this form of literature is both my favorite and my most detested format (corollary to the 50 page rule of why keep reading if it so terrible, for essays a 20 page rule). When satirically amusing and filled with irony on “postmodern” life, nothing beats an essay such as classics like the “postmodern” “How to Cook Heat Pig” or “A Modest Proposal”.
David Foster Wallace provides ten delightful articles on a variety of topics ranging from the relativity of pornography to generalizing the insipidness of sports autobiographies extracting from Tracy Austin’s perfect tennis adventure (Bill and Ted for a set anyone). In Mr. Wallace’s delightful way, if one wants to know whether a lobster feels pain while undergoing scalding water treatment, don’t question the cook, the lobsterman, or the zoologist; go to the source (not sauce): question the lobster who obviously is not dancing their life away. Same goes to McCain’s presidential bid lost during a failed debate with a fundamentalist demanding the senator turn no cheek insisting Christ condemned homosexuality. Though the asides can be hard to follow with abbrev, they are fun to follow up on with their deeper explanations and Americanization of the English language through ibid. Readers will appreciate the deep look at “postmodern” American life as a fabulous INFINITE JEST.
Harriet Klausner
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5