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More than 50% nonfiction in august, and it felt so good! And yes I did read 2 books titled “Down the Rabbit Hole.” 🐰🕳 Completely unintentional. 😂

5⭐️: Brief Interviews with Hideous Men, Crying in H Mart, and Down the Rabbit Hole (Villalobos not Madison)

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⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Such a clever and effective way to present a collection. These short stories (interviews) are dark, intimate, grotesque, and perhaps most disturbingly, realistic. DFW evokes a level of human depravity that makes you question yourself and those around you. Utterly uncomfortable yet breathtaking. One of my top reads of the year!

Content warning: rape

I am obsessed with this book. I feel like I‘m reflecting on a short on-and-off fling with someone who probably wasn‘t great for me in the first place but who I seriously enjoyed seeing for their insane comedic timing and spontaneity. I‘m more glad it happened than happy it‘s over.

While not his best work necessarily, the book is a collection of short stories, with four "interviews" with hideous men marking sections of the book. A strong book, even if a couple of the stories drag a bit om terms of pacing. 3.75/5

Here I am; I have stacks of books I have yet to read, but I just end up picking books I‘ve already read...twice. Why am I like this? 🤦🏻‍♀️

When they were introduced, he made a witticism, hoping to be liked. She laughed extremely hard, hoping to be liked. Then each drove home alone, staring straight ahead, with the very same twist to their faces.

The man who'd introduced them didn't much like either of them, though he acted as if he did, anxious as he was to preserve good relations at all times. One never knew, after all, now did one now did one now did one.

David Foster Wallace is a deconstructionist at heart. His stories have a skeleton narrative but most of his prose focuses on meta-commentary on writing itself and the supposed therapeutic values of modern society.

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Can't recommend this enough.
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On a re-read of this so that I can read it alongside a friend who is reading it for the first time and need to hit our agreed story deadline for tomorrow!

When they were introduced, he made a witicism, hoping to be liked. She laughed extremely hard, hoping to be liked. Then each drove home alone, staring straight ahead, with the very same twist to their faces.

Due libri più diversi non potrebbero esserci ma mi hanno "chiamata" entrambi con la stessa inesorabile forza. Con quale iniziare?

Still on the catchup for #somethingforsept and I went with this for made into a movie. It received that notorious euphemism known as 'mixed reviews' and whilst it's not a perfect film I admire its ambition and do really enjoy (questionable choice of words given the material) some scenes

Possibly my favourite collection of his (other contender being Oblivion). I loved so many of these stories 'The Depressed Person' is obviously a very famous one for good reason and the title arc is fantastic but the way he plays with form in some of the others blew me away! Highly recommend.