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Oblivion
Oblivion: Stories | David Foster Wallace
In the stories that make up Oblivion, David Foster Wallace joins the rawest, most naked humanity with the infinite involutions of self-consciousness--a combination that is dazzlingly, uniquely his. These are worlds undreamt-of by any other mind. Only David Foster Wallace could convey a father's desperate loneliness by way of his son's daydreaming through a teacher's homicidal breakdown ("The Soul Is Not a Smithy"). Or could explore the deepest and most hilarious aspects of creativity by delineating the office politics surrounding a magazine profile of an artist who produces miniature sculptures in an anatomically inconceivable way ("The Suffering Channel"). Or capture the ache of love's breakdown in the painfully polite apologies of a man who believes his wife is hallucinating the sound of his snoring ("Oblivion"). Each of these stories is a complete world, as fully imagined as most entire novels, at once preposterously surreal and painfully immediate.
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Woozy-Shooz
Oblivion: Stories | David Foster Wallace
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These uniquely intense and disquieting stories left me feeling on the edge of a precipice looking out over an endless void...but in a good way.

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Eggs
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Wallace‘s third short story collection which I plan to read someday...I think it‘s hard to feel lukewarm about DFW-readers seem to love his writing or dislike it a lot. I tried his Infinite Jest but bailed. But I did enjoy some other short stories.
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OriginalCyn620 I‘ve never read him! 4y
Ruthiella Infinite Jest is like Ducks Newburyport...once it grabs you, it starts to alter your brain...but I did find it hard to start... 4y
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Mtroiano
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High of 79 today! 🙌🏼

Social distancing day 6

AmyK1 It‘s 82 here! Just got back from a walk 😁 4y
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Mtroiano
Oblivion: Stories | David Foster Wallace
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This has been on my bookshelf for over a decade. I‘m excited to finally start it! #mounttbr

HeathHof Gorgeous flower! 🤩 4y
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Mtroiano
Oblivion: Stories | David Foster Wallace
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We‘ve been taking lots of walks around the neighborhood to get out of the house and get some exercise #distractions #isolationinteractions

Butterfinger So precious!!! 4y
Centique Good idea! 4y
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mauveandrosysky
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Flaneurette I love this collection so much....but I can never read "Incarnations of Burned Children" again. Well maybe when my kids are older but it gives me nightmares now 7y
mauveandrosysky @Flaneurette I've actually been surprisingly hit or miss on this collection. There are a couple stories in it that I don't love. And yeah, Incarnations is so intense. That's one of my favorites, but I completely understand why you don't want to read it again! 7y
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Oblivion: Stories | David Foster Wallace
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Catch up posts! I will absolutely haul this out again for a #onewordtitle this is probably my favourite collection of short stories. Endless love! #riotgrams

saresmoore I'm convinced! 7y
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No offence to anyone's political persuasions but this morning has me feeling like this:

Krysta I live in Canada and have been laying here for hours trying to motivate myself to get up 7y
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smccallum
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Opted for a short story for #booktober always find this an intriguing #greatfirstline

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Broke.Bibliophile
Oblivion: Stories | David Foster Wallace
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Ouch. Thanks DFW. You really start my weekends on a positive note! 🙄

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I was torn with today's #augustphotochallenge and thought of Franzen on #underhypedbooks in which he place Infinite Jest so I decided to go in between. I feel DFW's short stories are overlooked waaay too much and this is my favourite collection. I added Nugent's 'You Don't Have To Like Me' as that definitely is overlooked! It's a fantastic collection of essays that are incredibly readable and accessible and yet so few have read them 😱 read away!

katedensen Agreed! One of my all-time favorites is "My Appearance," which I think was initially published in Playboy. 8y
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Possibly my favourite DFW short story collection (though I also love 'Brief Interviews With Hideous Men') 'The Soul Is Not A Smithy' and 'Good Old Neon' were favourites and a must for fans of short stories!

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