Brief Interviews with Hideous Men Audiobook

" At its worst, this book is like a wordy version of Taxicab Confessions. But at its best, this book is funny and smart, undercutting its pretentious intellectualizing by its awareness of its intellectualism and pompousness, pointing at them and sniggering. Oh, and some sections are unexpectedly moving. "

" Read this, and not Infinte Jest, and you'll be a DFW fan "

" I love this book and have now passed it along to my husband. We'll see if that attempt yields any success. My last attempt to share it with someone else yielded the assessment 'too wordy' or some variation thereon. "

" Most of the interviews were pretty hard to listen to. There were a few that have stuck with me for months. "

" Fantastic stuff. Some of the stories verged on the esoteric, but overall I loved the way Wallace is able to create such rich and interesting characters in very short amounts of space. "

" This book made me feel like I wasn't alone in the very specific way my thought process works when I'm unhappy. It made me want to force people to read the chapter 'Octet' and ask them if everyone's brain works like this. "

" Amazing writing, pithy, funny, very original style, a little sick, right up my alley. Brilliant, a touch on the psycho side, but that probably had a bit to do with the shame of his recent suicide. A major loss to the literary world. "

" Wallace fans will enjoy. I am and I did, though one of my least favorite DFW books. "

" "reading" this through an audio book. Read by David Foster Wallace, and others also. Gosh is it good so far. "

" Una grande scrittura, ma forse non era il momento giusto. Sospendo il giudizio. "

" When literary geniuses watch too much TV . . . "

" By no means a perfect collection of stories, but B.I. # 20 makes it all worth it. The book would be five stars if it was cut in half, leaving only the best stories like Forever Overhead, The Depressed Person, On His Deathbed and most of brief interviews. "

" The first and second to last story would get five stars. None of the others ones really stuck with me, I didn't find the exercises with technicality particularly interesting. "

" It's not a collection of stories ... this is a novel. Wallace the stylist returns with a vengeance. But where he failed with "Curious Girl," he succeeds here. The prose is sharp, witty, erudite. This time he exposes the male sex ... to themselves. "

" A great book full of psychotic men that reveals a truth that is terrorizing. "

" Hated it so much I put it down after 3 or 4 stories. I couldn't stand his self-conscious, verbose prose or his attitude which seemed rather mean, although maybe I was missing some super intellectual ironic point. Aahhhh, nope I could not be bothered. "

" Always Overhead is probably the best short story ever written. "

" Incredibly overblown, but still kind of captivating, and at times very moving. "

" one of my favorites - hands down, please. "

" Two questions: 1) How can someone actually enjoy reading sentences like these? 2) Can you name a crueler story than Adult World, which is cruel to its characters, all of its characters, cruel to its author, and cruel most especially to its reader? "

" Like most books with collections of stories, these are very uneven in terms of quality. The title stories are quite good, and I would also recommend the movie. "

" A strange collection of short stories about depression and unusual sexuality. Worth a read if you like the super strange. "

" I had a lot trouble understanding this book to be honest. "

" maybe it was over my head... but it didn't do it for me "

" I don't get it. I guess I don't feel that the short story form needs to be subverted this much. These "stories" seemed to be all cerebral play, no beauty, no emotion. "

" No doubt one of the greatest. You'll remember almost all of these stories for your entire life, but I just can't give it five stars because "Tri-Stan: I Sold Sissee Nar to Ecko," almost made me puke with embarrassment. "

" Very humorous. I love the ridiculously long footnotes. They are like short stories by themselves. "

" Shocking, delightful, and IMHO a great intro to DFW. Though other reviewers might disagree, I don't know how one could sit through his longer works if they can't handle this one. "

" David Foster Wallace is a magnificent writer and this particular collection of short stories was extremely well put together. "