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almondcrush

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shit. 1104 pages? i think i'll read the brother's K first...that book seems daunting enough haha. 

 

IJ is very good, although i'd recommend the short story collection Oblivion as a better starting-off point for wallace (that's where i started, at least); it's sort of a taster for his writing style, but at 300 pages as opposed to a gargantuan 1100 (and IJ's really more like 1200, because the text on the pages of the endnotes is so purposefully tiny).

 

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personally i liked oblivion a bit more than jest. i feel like his style's more suited to short stories/novellas than monstrous every-conceivable-topic-spanning works (but thats just me).

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Yeah it keeps getting harder to read as it gets more in-depth, especially with all the historical architecture references that I don't get.  But I'd still recommend a re-read.  

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