Hooray for education. I guess.
School started again, and this semester, for the first time ever (including high school), I wont be carpooling with anyone to and from school. In order to ease the boredom of the half hour trip each way with no one to talk to I decided to start listening to audio books. I just finished up Consider the Lobster by David Foster Wallace, which was fantastic. Consider is a selection of essays which are collected in the book by the same name. The selections are read by the author, which in this case is a good thing.
Wallace’s books and short stories are not easy reads (although they are worth the trouble), but having it read to you is ideal. Wallace is brilliant and funny in a way that I don’t think many people are. Good stuff.
Next comes Don DeLillo’s Cosmopolis. I hope it’s half as good.
Oh and school is OK I suppose.
Those audio books are for blind people, you know.
You have to wear a handicap sign or otherwise it’s illegal.
You’re more of a man than I am. I got about 150 pages into another Foster Wallace book and gave up. Apparently, it doesn’t get good until after the 400th page. I figure, that’s a whole lot o’ Calvin and Hobbes I could be reading. You and Hal Sadick should bond over Wallace. Ugh.
I read Wallace’s “Oblivion,” but like you couldn’t get through “Infinite Jest,” although it is a a mountain I would like to climb some day. But yeah, that thing is massive.
Nothing wrong with some Calvin and Hobbes though. Watterson is a whole other type of genius. He is also a mysterious hermit.
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