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Dean Goranites bringing you a book review of David Foster Wallace’s
“The Broom of the System.” “The Broom of the System” was released in 1988
as part of the college project that David Foster Wallace was working out as a thesis.
It's his first novel and it follows the main character Lenore Beadsman.
Lenore finds herself in a bit of trouble when her grandmother,
who she goes to visit weekly
at her nursing home (her grandmother is also named Lenore), goes missing
and nobody who works at the nursing home knows where she went. And on top of it,
a good number of other people
who Lenore was known to be good friends with, have also gone missing.
Lenore goes looking for her grandmother and along the way she has to
reintroduce yourself to a sister that she doesn't talk to a whole lot…
she goes to meet her stoner brother who
is really not doing much with his life and she's lost contact with him too…
and even some crazier things are going on
Like her pet bird has started talking in full
sentences and she doesn't know why.
This is all written in very similar David Foster Wallace
Style, if you've read his other stuff Before. It seems like a little bit of a
slimmed down version of “Infinite Jest,” which is widely considered his best work.
It doesn't include the footnotes and endnotes and all that extensive stuff
that he became more well-known for as he got older, but instead lends itself
well to a good intro book. If you're looking to get into the author but
you've been a little scared of his biggest work, which was over a
thousand pages long,
try this one out.
I give it four out of five stars. I think David Foster Wallace
is a great author and I think you might like him too.
Until next time.