The Broom Of The System
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Average rating3.6
Part of the Penguin Orange Collection, a limited-run series of twelve influential and beloved American classics in a bold series design offering a modern take on the iconic Penguin paperback Winner of the 2016 AIGA + Design Observer 50 Books | 50 Covers competition For the seventieth anniversary of Penguin Classics, the Penguin Orange Collection celebrates the heritage of Penguin’s iconic book design with twelve influential American literary classics representing the breadth and diversity of the Penguin Classics library. These collectible editions are dressed in the iconic orange and white tri-band cover design, first created in 1935, while french flaps, high-quality paper, and striking cover illustrations provide the cutting-edge design treatment that is the signature of Penguin Classics Deluxe Editions today. The Broom of the System The “dazzling, exhilarating” (San Francisco Chronicle) debut novel from one of the most groundbreaking writers of his generation, The Broom of the System is an outlandishly funny and fiercely intelligent exploration of the paradoxes of language, storytelling, and reality.
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highly recommend this as a starting point for DFW
lacks the scale and mastery of IJ (what doesn't?), but nonetheless an obscenely brilliant and clever book. insane that he wrote this at 24 - what a talent
lots of building blocks for IJ to be found here - you can tell IJ was the culmination and logical conclusion of what he was trying to do throughout his early work
This book was... difficult? I don't think I entirely understood it, although I enjoyed the journey. Apparently it was written as a senior project about modal logic, and I don't really know what modal logic is, so... that's a problem.
