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Brief Interviews with Hideous Men
Brief Interviews with Hideous Men
David Foster Wallace has made an art of taking readers into places no other writer ever gets near. In the pages of his novels INFINITE JEST and THE BROOM OF THE SYSTEM and the collections GIRL WITH CURIOUS HAIR and A SUPPOSEDLY FUN THING I'LL NEVER DO AGAIN, he had created as unique a voice and vies as any writer at work today, rendering a dazz...  more »
ISBN-13: 9781570427763
ISBN-10: 1570427763
Publication Date: 6/1/1999
Edition: Abridged
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  • Currently 3.5/5 Stars.
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3.5 stars, based on 2 ratings
Publisher: Warner Adult
Book Type: Audio Cassette
Members Wishing: 0
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duplica123 avatar reviewed Brief Interviews with Hideous Men on + 150 more book reviews
I don't like books that make me feel bad or horribly bored. The stories in here are all obnoxious humans, none with names, just "the mother, the depressed person, the father" etc, so you don't even have characters to dislike.
Despite the title, these stories are anything but brief. Most...no, all the stories, were tedious to read. They are just pages and pages and pages, sometimes saying almost the same thing and not furthering the story, or are long and rambling going off in different directions and hard to follow.
Why not one star, then? I don't really know. My best answer to why I gave this 2 stars is because I think the author did what he set out to do, which is point out horrible humanity. Since he seemed to have his own point and agenda, I can't give it 1 star for not even being a book. I'll give it 2 stars, but grudgingly.


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