David Foster Wallace - Brief Interviews With Hideous Men

Pros: For all his literary cleverness, a distinctive voice with a heart.
Cons: If you want to hate Wallace, it's not hard to do.

Few readers have indifferent opinions about David Foster Wallace. He charms or infuriates so readily that many readers are quick to take sides. If you read with a little more patience, you may find that he charms and infuriates you at the same time....

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David Foster Wallace’s creativity is stunning, and his verbal precocity is daunting and awe-inspiring, but both are overshadowed by the sheer and utter depravity of his protagonists in the collection of short stories, “Brief Interviews With Hideous Men.”...

Pros: Some incredible psyche-piercing writing
Cons: The occasional creepy, odd or obtuse road-block passage

Two books into his work, I'm still somewhat intimidated by David Foster Wallace's ever-changing style. His prose is impossibly complicated yet conversational, at times easy to read and at others mired in incomprehensible vocabulary, technical and...

Pros: I think it doubled my vocabulary
Cons: There are a few stories that I will probably never understand

From the man who gave us the 10 pound, 1000 page book, Infinite Jest comes an extremely clever 321 pages of short stories that at times challenge the readers and at other times completely alienate them. What do you expect when you read a book by...

Pros: Interesting ideas.
Cons: Not fully realized.

After completing "Brief Interviews with Hideous Men", I could not escape the conclusion that this collection of short stories was written with the sole purpose of financing David Foster Wallace's next novel. Until now, Wallace's creative...