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"None of the cloudlessly sane and true things he had to say about life in 2005 are any less sane or true today...["This is Water]" reminds us of [Wallace's] strength and goodness and decency--the parts of him the terrible master [the mind] could never defeat, and never will."--New York Times Book Review "Tom Bissel "
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David Foster Wallace probes the challenges of daily living and offers advice that renews us with every reading.
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13 of 14 people found the following review helpful
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Anything which inspires us to direct our thoughts away from materialism, academic achievement and other socially programmed ideas about the way to find compassion and happiness in our lives has to be a good thing. This would make a wonderful gift to a young person who is just graduating, or has reached some other milestone. It awakens us to thinking outside the box -the preprogrammed self-centred thought patterns of which we are usually completely unaware. Short, precise, intelligent, amusing and thought provoking.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
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Okay, you can find this book entirely on the internet, but the feel of the paper, the (small) size of the book, the typeface... the whole way it's presented make it worth every £, $, euro or whatever currency you're using.
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This book is a transcription of a commencement speech David Foster Wallace gave at Kenyon College in 2005 and is freely available on the internet. Go to Youtube and type in "This is Water David Foster Wallace" and you can hear him give the speech, all 22 minutes 47 seconds of it and I urge you to do this as it is a wonderful speech. He talks of the real value of education, not in academic qualifications or material rewards but in teaching you awareness, that you have a choice in the way you see the everyday, that you have to fight against the default settings of your mind to see the beautiful in the everyday. In his words, "this is the freedom of education: you get to choose what has meaning and what doesn't". "This is Water" is a wonderful speech by a wonderful man; this book however seems to be shameless profiteering from his estate.
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