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David Foster Wallace on Commercial Literature and the Dread of Reading

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5 Comments to “David Foster Wallace on Commercial Literature and the Dread of Reading”

1. 
   Lou
   July 18, 2010 at 11:19 pm

   Thanks for this.

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   Double Darkness
   July 20, 2010 at 4:21 pm

   He says there maybe 1M readers that actually work to understand his effort.

   7 million Americans can’t read or write a thing, another 27 million cant fill out a job application, 30 million cant read a simple sentence. One third of Americans never read another book after graduating from high school, neither do 42 % of college graduates.

   Battling depression and a tsunami of media induced stupidity; it is a surprise that he lasted as long as he did.

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   Matthew Graybosch
   July 21, 2010 at 8:57 pm

   I don’t think Mr. Wallace realizes that the public schools are designed to encourage people to hate books and dread reading as a form of drudgery akin to cleaning toilets with a toothbrush.

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4. 
   Longlunch
   July 24, 2010 at 10:43 pm

   Double Darkness –> 1 dude who apparently aced Hyperbolic Stats 1101.

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5. 
   Double Darkness
   July 13, 2011 at 2:00 pm

   LongLunch —- Actually I audited the Hyperbolic class and aced Stochastic Signals & Analysis.

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