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Brief Interviews with Hideous Men: Stories

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Brief Interviews with Hideous Men: Stories

by David Foster Wallace

Little, Brown And Company | April 1, 2000 | Trade Paperback

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David Foster Wallace made an art of taking readers into places no other writer even gets near. The series of stories from which this exuberantly acclaimed book takes its title is a sequence of imagined interviews with men on the subject of their relations with women. These portraits of men at their most self-justifying, loquacious, and benighted explore poignantly and hilariously the agonies of sexual connections.

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Found in: Short Stories

Appropriate for ages: 13 - 13

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Unfortunately, this book was a let down. For such a great title and some interesting content listings at the beginning of the book, I found most of the stories monotonous. The longer each one went on, the more difficult it was to sit and read. I didn’t care for his overall style of writing at all. There were a few stories that I did take a slight liking to. They were shorter pieces and didn’t drag on, such as Think, The Devil is a Busy Man and the Adult World Part 1. I do give credit to David Foster Wallace for his unusual imagination and elaborate use of vocabulary but it was a painfully long read of 321 pages.