Pre-book-report non sequiturs can be fun: Darcy Krasne. We now return you to today's Book Report, already in progress.
...ever get published? Though this book is by Sarah Vowell, I blame its widespread existence on David Foster Wallace. Wallace has written some good essays and many bad ones. He pokes fun at himself for being such a geek. He does it a lot. He does it until it stops being funny and then keeps going. In this book Assassination Vacation by Sarah Vowell, she pokes fun at herself for obsessing over presidential assassination trivia. She travels to different places and thinks about things that happened there.
I didn't finish the book. Is it funny that she studied a lot about something? Not that funny, it's not. I just wanted to say, "Get over yourself. Get over David Foster Wallace's book sales, too. Just calm down and report. He'll be first against the wall when the revolution comes; you don't need to follow him." But there's no point in saying that to a book, so I didn't.
Labels: book, sturgeon's law, unfinished
someone bought me the audio cd version as read by ms. vowell herself; though i believe the person to have been generally well meaning, i also found that ms. vowell has a voice that makes me want to deafen myself.