What do You think about Ogni Storia D'amore è Una Storia Di Fantasmi. Vita Di David Foster Wallace (2013)?
Audio version. Although the definitive Wallace biography has yet to be written, this is an important book for shedding light on so many aspects of an extremely gifted but extremely troubled soul. The addictions, insecurities, detours, confusion, the compulsions, the frailties...if nothing else, this biography demonstrates "what it means to be human." I found this book compelling, especially on audio, and I looked forward to the long commute just to progress through the stages of Wallace's life. And then . . . The ending. I am astonished. No afterward, no analysis, no epilogue . . . At least not in the audio version, and I'm still reeling. Was this intentional, some strange mockery masquerading as irony...a "Lynching"? I don't know, but to my mind, this book, and its subject, deserve better, or at least more thoughtful, treatment.
—trish
To write a biography of a dead man is to use his corpse as a puppet. The thought of my own obituary terrifies me beyond anything, and the idea that someone would extend that to book-length seems like an almost inhuman punishment.I didn't learn much from Max's autobiography that I hadn't heard in some form already. It's all part of the cottage industry surrounding the legacy of Blessed David Foster Wallace, patron saint of sincerity, which, while I recognize it as disingenuous and crass, I still feel some need to hoover up every text it produces. I suppose that's on me.
—shazza85
Good, but the last sentence is a real piss-off.
—Valerie
