Brief Interviews with Hideous Men

I love David Foster Wallaces' work and was looking forward to a remake of this audible with so many great actors stepping in and performing some of the interviews. They leave out large sections of this book. I already heard the abridged edition of this that DFW did back when the book came out. I don't understand why this is labeled UNABRIDGED when it should be labeled ABRIDGED. That has been happening with all of his works. Why can't fans of DGW have all of his works available UNABRIDGED. I know the arguments regarding the footnotes, but DFW was able to employ them effectively with his reading of the Lobster essay.
With the talent that is available for these recordings, it would be fantastic to have Infinite Jest unabridged. That would resurrect that classic.

David Foster Wallace is an amazing writer, and this team of narrators does justice to his characters. I highly recommend reading or listening to this.

Middle of the pack. For DFW fans it's a must have. Unfortunately it isn't the entire book, but selected portions, and there doesn't seem to be any rhyme or reason as to why those particular selections were made.

DFW's unique perspective on what makes men "hideous" and the way in which the characters are blind to their own grotesque behavior.

I thought this was going to be a comedy, or at least humous. Yes I did laugh in parts but mainly this book is confronting and done well to do so. I don't like this book, not because of anything technical like bad writing, but because it was a little raw in parts that made me feel, and perhaps things I didn't want to confront.

No. I have done a little with market research and found that it is next to useless where books like this can actually give you insight into the human psyche. I may not like being shown the ugly side of life, but I do feel better for being shown it, if that makes sense.

This is a good book, don't think that just because I didn't like it that you won't. I have explained my reasons for not liking the book and finding it useful. I think this is a book of interviews that you will have to make your own mind up on. David Foster Wallace is good, so I will be reading other works by him.

I've enjoyed many of these stories, but have found some of them unlistenable due to repeated utterings by the readers -- usually "cue" and sometimes "return to text." If I had the paper version in front of me, I might get a clue as to why, but right now it's annoying as hell.

Gem of Note: Interview 71 (the one referencing Bewitched)... hilarious.

After the first two stories (dull sketches, read stiltedly) I almost gave up but there were enough plums in what was left that I was glad i stuck it out. He has a great ear for dialogue and for the little self-deceptions and manipulations that pepper his protagonists' dialogues. There are numerous readers and most of them are really good. This is the tragedy though: I read the review on amazon and some of the stories that didn't make the cut sound really interesting, so why did they get dropped in favour of what sounded like padding? Ach, I'll have to buy the papery version and read it myself I think.

Truly dreadful in every sense. The author abuses his ability for deft description by using it only to describe horrible men. Even worse, he feels he can do and say any hurtful thing yet honestly believes an apology and a whine that it hurts him too will make up for his Catskills humour excuse for sociopathy.
The only amusing thing is that the narrators *say* the word 'cue' in between paragraphs.
I bought this because I enjoy the work of some of the narrators: sucker! Anyone watching my expression as I listened to this on a commute would have thought I was in pain: and they'd be right.

Awfully long and pretentious "story" between the interviews. And the interviews themselves are just stupid. Are they supposed to be real? They sound made up.