Brief Interviews With Hideous Men

Book: Brief Interviews With Hideous Men
Author: David Foster Wallace
Where I read it: In the car on the way home from the bookstore after purchasing, and then well into the evening at home, wrapped up in bed, trying to digest it all in one sitting

What I thought:
Hmm...as DFW has often occupied a place in my intellectual fantasies as the sexiest man alive, it came as a shock to me that he could have written such a completely disjointed, incomprehensible collection of stories. Most of them were difficult to get through, not what you'd call easy listening, more like the Throbbing Gristle of literature.

I personally still find his long, rambling footnotes quite funny, at least most of the time, although sometimes his twisting, parenthetical references can just go on and on to the point of grammatical incorrectness.

There were a few stories, the title piece, and Forever Overhead, that were less irritating and just plain funny, which is what I'm looking for in a sexy intellectual. I don't like it when he goes over everyone's head just because he can. Nobody likes a show off, and frankly, why show off if like, 2 people on the planet are going to get your joke?

But as a disciple of his magnum opus, Infinite Jest, I will continue to try to crack the code he writes, even if it means getting a headache.