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ENGLISH (A supposedly fun thing I'll never do again) / ITALIANO«Right now it's Saturday 18 March, and I'm sitting in the extremely full coffee shop of the Fort Lauderdale Airport, killing the four hours between when I had to be off the cruise ship and when my flight to Chicago leaves by trying to summon up a kind of hypnotic sensuous collage of all the stuff I've seen and heard and done as a result of the journalistic assignment just ended»In the absence of a little courage to start the gigantic...
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LOVED this essay. The way DFW writes is just brilliant. The vocabulary (I kept a running list of words I did not know and reached about 75 - most of which I had never even seen or heard before) was just stunning and his descriptions so apt - especially if you've ever been on one of those luxury cruises before. This is a must read. If you were thinking of reading this author, this is a great entree. I thank Eli for turning me on to this.
Super great collection of essays. I'll never quite view tennis, cruises, or David Lynch the same way again. It was nice to read a relatively a-political book for once. I've been burnt out by all the hyper political stuff as of late.
Nice read, something to pass time: surely not something that made me laugh out loud by any stretch, though. I think I have a different conception of funny or maybe American comedy and Italian one don't get along(?)
Wallace's writing style is amusing but long winded. "A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again" has moments of sincere self reflection but generally feels aloof and pretentious, as if the people he encounters are animals in a zoo. I suppose that's the intent - to convey the feeling that he and the reader are nestled close together at a party, sharing significant glances and laughing at the absurdity of everything around them. Wallace stretches what should have been a ten page essay into half a
What you need to know about this review:I have read this before.I decided to read a bit at a time every time I was high.This review wad NOT written while I was high, but I tried to capture that sense. I still love this essay, and it makes me want to never read Wallace's fiction, honestly. Real life observations are way more fun. Many of the passages were very clear and vivid to imagine. One he started getting technical on me, like describing fun facts about the ship, my brain went into blah blah...
A love story between a man and his footnotes.
Interesting read for whoever is not aware of the cruise market, and eventually even to cruise-addicted people (but I guess it will never be made available in cruise ship libraries for obvious reasons). The content really confirms what can be read in trip report forum, usually by people who strongly appreciate this kind of vacation package.After reading this account I would say that, of course not regarding these kinds of experiences as traveling, I would do it once only, but just to station at t...
For me, this is an entrance to EVA's work.Finally, something he wrote that I understand. Probably, I'll have to start with his non-fiction and transition to fiction later. This is an essay on his experiences and observations on-board a cruise ship. Mixed in are ruminations on what it means to do nothing, and mortality. I liked it a lot.
Read here: https://harpers.org/wp-content/upload...Funny, if overlong. DFW gets a bit rambly, but alwasy purposeful. The comparatives are humurous and the man sure has a snide side to his writing. I don't know if I'd read much more from him but I can appreciate the misanthropy and general disdain he has for certain modes of life.... Or life in general considering the man's end.
