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Consider the Lobster

And Other Essays

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Consider the Lobster

Yazan: David Foster Wallace
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A collection of David Foster Wallace’s witty and deeply observant essays exploring everything from lobster festivals and politics to the nature of human suffering, from the bestselling author of Infinite Jest. "brilliantly entertaining...Consider the Lobster proves once more why Wallace should be regarded as this generation's best comic writer" —Cleveland Plain Dealer

Do lobsters feel pain? Did Franz Kafka have a funny 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 enthralling narrative adventures. Whether covering the three-ring circus of John McCain's 2000 presidential race, plunging into the wars between dictionary 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.

"Wallace can do sad, funny, silly, heartbreaking, and absurd with equal ease; he can even do them all at once." —New York Times Essays Literary History & Criticism Philosophy Travel Writing & Commentary United States World Literature
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“There is no writer alive more incisive and hilarious, more ruthlessly tender, when it comes to documenting the perversities of modern American life.”—Los Angeles Times Book Review
“Wallace can do sad, funny, silly, heartbreaking, and absurd with equal ease; he can even do them all at once.”—New York Times
“brilliantly entertaining…Consider the Lobster proves once more why Wallace should be regarded as this generation’s best comic writer”—Cleveland Plain Dealer
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David foster Wallace is a very compelling writter and reader. my only problem with the audiobook is that it's incomplete. almost half stories from the original compilation missing

a very good reading by dfw

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If you like your essays well-researched, eloquently written and unflinching in factual content, this is for you. DFW's deadpan delivery on various topics ranging from the inhumanity of boiling lobsters to the porn industry's annual oscar-fest in Vegas is very engaging. Loved this!

Perfection!

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fantastic essays. read the book last year. listening to them is great. interesting how they handle the footnotes. spoilers... he really doesn't like sports memoirs. haha

DFW is a legend.

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Would you listen to Consider the Lobster and Other Essays (Selected Essays) again? Why?

Perhaps. I do not often listen twice to books, but with short essays the threshold is much lower.

What was one of the most memorable moments of Consider the Lobster and Other Essays (Selected Essays)?

it is the good writing and the sense of humour that make the book enjoyable.

Have you listened to any of David Foster Wallace’s other performances? How does this one compare?

no

If you made a film of this book, what would be the tag line be?

cannot be made into a film

Great writing, nice is you have little time

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Effortless and charming. An entertaining, incredibly intelligent stream of consciousness that never jars with the reader (listener) as pretentious in nature. Hilarious and insightful in equal measure. The only issue I have is that Wallace's vocal performance was so good I want him to personally read me all of his works now

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