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Girl With Curious Hair

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Remarkable, hilarious and unsettling re-imaginations of reality by "a dynamic writer of extraordinary talent " (Jennifer Levin, New York Times Book Review).

David Foster Wallace was one of the most prodigiously talented and original young writers in America today, and Girl with Curious Hair displays the full range of his gifts. From the eerily "real," almost holographic evocations of historical figures like Lyndon Johnson and overtelevised game-show hosts and late-night comedians to the title story, where terminal punk nihilism meets Young Republicanism, Wallace renders the incredible comprehensible, the bizarre normal, the absurd hilarious, the familiar strange.
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Excellent, moving collection of stories full of honesty wisdom.

Audible, please revise the chapter list for this audiobook so that the stories, which are broken into several parts each, are labeled such that each "chapter" is labeled. This will make it significantly easier to navigate through the stories when I (and others, surely) wish to revisit these short pieces of genius.

so good it hurts

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Most of the stories are unique and engrossing. The last story is the longest and , in my opinion, was boring and convoluted.

Mixture of banal and substantial

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This book is not not a Datsun. A couple uneven stories, but all in all a nice early collection of DFW stories.

This book is not NOT a Datsun!

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Would you try another book from David Foster Wallace and/or Robert Petkoff?

Yes,p. I would like to listen to many of these stories again but I can't because the chapters on the audible file don't match up to the beginning of the individual stories

What was one of the most memorable moments of Girl with Curious Hair?

When all of the chapter markers do not correspond to the stories in the book

Do you think Girl with Curious Hair needs a follow-up book? Why or why not?

You idiots, this is a short story collection, this question makes it clear that you don't give a damn about the listener experience and that all of the editorial work is done by poorly made algorithims

Any additional comments?

Fix the damn chapters

Great stories, Chapters don't match up to stories

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I finally broke down and bought this David Foster Wallace collection because I had read "Lyndon" before and thought it was written by a genius. I still love "Lyndon," and "Little Expressionless Animals," but the title story "Girl With Curious Hair" was awful--and doubly awful because of the way it was performed. So, it's an uneven collection, but worth it for the good pieces.

But please, Audible, improve your bookmarking. I made a number of bookmarks in one of the stories for a class, but then they suddenly disappeared.

Some great, Some awful, but bookmark problems

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