Title: A Supposedly Fun Author I'll Never Read Again
Product review: While some essays were entertaining, on whole I found this book to be quite annoying. The author tries to combine stuffy academic writing with popular non-fiction, with decidedly mixed results. For example, Wallace seems obsessed with footnotes (several of his footnotes have footnotes!) which disrupts the narrative flow on nearly every page of some stories. He also comes across as a whiny outsider; his stories about the state fair and life aboard a cruise ship reveal more about the author than about the subject.
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