Brief Interviews with Hideous Men (Paperback)

29 May 2009 in Coffee maker

Brief Interviews with Hideous Men

Amazon.com Review
Amid the screams of adulation for bandanna-clad wunderkind David Foster Wallace, you might hear a small peep. It is the cry for some restraint. On occasion the reader is left in the dust wondering where the story went, as the author, literary turbochargers on full-blast, suddenly accelerates into the wild-blue-footnoted yonder in pursuit of some obscure metafictional fancy. Brief Interviews with Hideous Men, Wallace’s latest collection, is at least in part a (more…)


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29 May 2009 Coffee maker

10 Comments to Brief Interviews with Hideous Men (Paperback)

  1. 4.0 out of 5 stars
    Darker
    One ingredient I would add to the mix amid all of these mixed reviews is Darkness. Not the dystopian darkness of Infinite Jest but a more personal, involutional and really quite…

    2. Wilona on 29 May 2009

  2. 1.0 out of 5 stars
    Often unintelligible
    Much of this collection is in the form of soliloquies, one side of supposedly overheard conversations, meticulously observed and in excruciating detail.

    3. Vicente on 29 May 2009

  3. 4.0 out of 5 stars
    Talented writer will be missed
    I am still absorbing the news that David Foster Wallace apparently took his own life this weekend. He was 46.

    4. Hugh on 29 May 2009

  4. 4.0 out of 5 stars
    Brief review of a not-so-hideous book
    David Foster Wallace is one of those “love him or hate him” kind of guys. His fans love his quirky stories, textural experimentations, and insights on the human condition.

    5. Xander on 30 May 2009

  5. 2.0 out of 5 stars
    Fragments of modernism not as compelling as his essays
    I am a huge fan of DFW’s non fiction. His essays are amongst the choicest examples of the modern form. But his fiction I’m not so sure.

    6. Xanthe on 30 May 2009

  6. 4.0 out of 5 stars
    recommended for hideous men
    This collection is about two short stories shy of a perfect “10″. That said, for anyone that wants to cut their teeth on some DFW before taking the Infinite Jest plunge, I would…

    7. Cailyn on 30 May 2009

  7. 3.0 out of 5 stars
    victory for the forces of democratic freedom
    as with all DFW’s work, if you ripped almost exactly 50% of the pages out you could find yourself with a 5 star book.
    the first 84 pages are mostly a waste.

    8. Luqman on 30 May 2009

  8. 2.0 out of 5 stars
    Clever but Reader-Friendly?
    As a writer, I found the craft utilized by David Foster Wallace intriguing. He really breaks out of what a standard “story” can be and is quite successful in a few of the pieces…

    9. Rahima on 30 May 2009

  9. 5.0 out of 5 stars
    RIVETING PATTER OF CONSCIOUSNESS; NOT BRIEF, AND NOT ALWAYS HIDEOUS
    I am intrigued by reviewers who picked up a David Foster Wallace novel and expected to beat a crystal clear-cut confession out of it.

    10. Orde on 30 May 2009

  10. 5.0 out of 5 stars
    Hats off to an innovator
    The writer in me says: thank you.
    The reader in me says: you sonofa****.

    11. Yamha on 31 May 2009

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