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In his startling and singular new short story collection, David Foster Wallace nudges at the boundaries of fiction with inimitable wit and seductive intelligence. Venturing inside minds and landscapes that are at once recognisable and utterly strange, these stories reaffirm Wallace's reputation as one of his generation's pre-eminent talents, expanding our ides and pleasures fiction can afford.Among the stories are 'The Depressed Person', a dazzling and blackly humorous portrayal of a woman's mental state; 'Adult World', which reveals a woman's agonised consideration of her confusing sexual relationship with her husband; and 'Brief Interviews with Hideous Men', a dark, hilarious series of portraits of men whose fear of women renders them grotesque. Wallace's stories present a world where the bizarre and the banal are interwoven and where hideous men appear in many different guises. Thought-provoking and playful, this collection confirms David Foster Wallace as one of the most imaginative young writers around. Wallace delights in leftfield observation, mining the ironic, the surprising and the illuminating from every situation. His new collection will delight his growing number of fans, and provide a perfect introduction for new readers.

A gargantuan, mind-altering comedy about the Pursuit of Happiness in America. Set in an addicts' halfway house and a tennis academy, and featuring the most endearingly screwed-up family to come along in recent fiction, Infinite Jest explores essential questions about what entertainment is and why it has come to so dominate our lives; about how our desire for entertainment affects our need to connect with other people; and about what the pleasures we choose say about who we are. Equal parts philosophical quest and screwball comedy, Infinite Jest bends every rule of fiction without sacrificing for a moment its own entertainment value. It is an exuberant, uniquely American exploration of the passions that make us human—and one of those rare books that renew the idea of what a novel can do.

Ok, so in a nutshell, this book is the reason that I know my current girlfriend, her daughter, several other good friends, and why I always have a particularly happy picture in my head when I get frustrated (at least once I remember to remember the picture :). That said, none of that had to do with reading the book, but it sure set the bar high. When I finally got to actually READ it, I found it to be a delightful and fun combination of ideas and activities that I still play with regularly, two years after first encountering it and its author (Rob Brezny). He's a hoot on his own, and that's a separate topic lol... I enjoy being able to pick this up, open it randomly, and find something that I can use to poke at my current experience. There is plenty of variety available throughout the book. To my surprise, I found a fount of writing and tidbits that encourage greater awareness and accountability, rather than the woowoo check-in-to-check-out fluff I'd been anticipating. The book is inviting and self-deprecating at the same time, encouraging me (and you...) to take it all with a grain of salt, believe none of it and still play with all of it anyway.If you enjoy a life that flows well and effortlessly, then this book is a fun complement to an already elegant experience. If the stick is so far up there that you can scratch your tonsils with it, then this book might be for you as well, because if it you don't find some fun in it to tickle your fancy, it is definitely big enough for your to knock yourself senseless with but a single well-placed swing. Either way, life's looking better all ready, eh?! :PGet it, try it, and have some fun... who cares if its because of the book?:) MarkPS - I must say, much to my delight, this IS NOT an academic treatise on the philosophical and pragmatic ramifications of introducing the physiology, psychology, biology or any other -ology of happiness, fun or beingness. Yes, there are plenty of opportunities to get blood flowing in the grey matter in the book. Ultimately, its about your experience, not your perceptual reference to the structural manifestation of the biological response evoked by the illusion of fun. *cough* ENJOY!

The Transmigration of Timothy Archer, the final novel in the trilogy that also includes Valis and The Divine Invasion, is an anguished, learned, and very moving investigation of the paradoxes of belief. It is the story of Timothy Archer, an urbane Episcopal bishop haunted by the suicides of his son and mistress - and driven by them into a bizarre quest for the identity of Christ.

VALIS is the first book in Philip K. Dick's incomparable final trio of novels (the others being The Divine Invasion and The Transmigration of Timothy Archer). This disorienting and bleakly funny work is about a schizophrenic hero named Horselover Fat; the hidden mysteries of Gnostic Christianity; and reality as revealed through a pink laser. VALIS is a theological detective story, in which God is both a missing person and the perpetrator of the ultimate crime.

A film that defies conventional logic and storytelling, fueled by its dark nightmarish atmosphere and compellingly disturbing visuals. Henry Spencer is a hapless factory worker on his vacation when he finds out he's the father of a hideously deformed baby. Now living with his unhappy, malcontent girlfriend, the child cries day and night, driving Henry and his girlfriend to near insanity.

A Christlike figure wanders through bizarre, grotesque scenarios filled with religious and sacrilegious imagery. He meets a mystical guide who introduces him to seven wealthy and powerful people, each representing a planet in the Solar system. These seven, along with the protagonist, the guide and the guide's assistant, divest themselves of their worldly goods and form a group of nine who will seek the Holy Mountain, in order to displace the gods who live there and become immortal.

Two very different brothers get together for a temporary stay in a Japanese Zen monastery. The trip from Germany to Japan brings up some unexpected quests they need to manage. Soon both really must leave their ordinary lives behind to embark on a voyage to themselves.

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