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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 813.54 EAN: 9780142002421 ISBN: 0142002429 Label: Penguin (Non-Classics) Manufacturer: Penguin (Non-Classics) Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 480 Publication Date: May 25, 2004 Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics) Release Date: May 25, 2004 Studio: Penguin (Non-Classics) Related Items:
Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display Editorial Review: Product Description: Published when Wallace was just twenty-four years old, The Broom of the System stunned critics and marked the emergence of an extraordinary new talent. At the center of this outlandishly funny, fiercely intelligent novel is the bewitching heroine, Lenore Stonecipher Beadsman. The year is 1990 and the place is a slightly altered Cleveland, Ohio. LenoreÂ’s great-grandmother has disappeared with twenty-five other inmates of the Shaker Heights Nursing Home. Her beau, and boss, Rick Vigorous, is insanely jealous, and her cockatiel, Vlad the Impaler, has suddenly started spouting a mixture of psycho- babble, Auden, and the King James Bible. Ingenious and entertaining, this debut from one of the most innovative writers of his generation brilliantly explores the paradoxes of language, storytelling, and reality. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - not great, not badthe stories within the story are more enjoyable than the main plot itself. most of the characters were interesting as was their interconnectedness, but some seemed unnecessary almost as if they were thrown in just as a distraction. just when something potentially exciting was on the verge of happening, the perspective would switch and by the time that particular dialog wrapped up, the impending thrill of the previous section was long gone. despite the attention-draining subplots, d.f.w.'s ... Read More Rating:  - This book was terrible enough for me to write a review on it.The Broom of the System left me sad, angry, and a little more than confused. Any book capable of drawing such strong emotions in me is worth more than one star, which is why I gave it two. Beautiful writing and language that leads from nothing to nowhere in a somewhat hefty 467 pages. They cheat and lie in too many ways and are all products of misunderstanding. This entire book is a big misunderstanding, I highly recommend against it. Rating:  - Manically and Explosively Funny!David's early book titles apparently have little to do with the subject matter, much like a song from REM, whose lyrics have nothing to do with anything at all, other than they sound good. Don't expect to learn what is 'The Broom of the System' by reading this book. What you should expect is a Douglas-Adams like treatment of the near future, full of quintessential midwestern humor (David is from Urbana, Illinois), which consists mainly of Satire, Irony, and Social Comment. These are ... Read More Rating: - I prefer his essaysDavid Foster Wallace is one of my favorite non-fiction authors, so I decided to read his first novel, The Broom of the System. I'd love to be able to explain the title, but I can't; I have no idea what it refers to. Ditto for most of the book's themes, characters, motifs, and its plot. It was beautifully written at times; Wallace has a real flair for dialogue as well as the same descriptive zing that makes me enjoy his essays, but since it was "Picaresque," according to the blurbs on the cover, ... Read More Rating: - Self indulgent twaddleI am a fan of DFW - Infinite Jest is one of my favorite books, and I've loved even some of his weirder forays into metafiction in his collections of short works. I was very surprised and disappointed by this novel, in fact forced to set it aside 120 pages in. It's largely incomprehensible, far too cute styllistically, and makes no effort to orient the reader in the webs of its plot. There's one entertaining character, Mr Bombadini, but the rest is just mastur**tory. I don't need stories spoon-fed to ... Read More 
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