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The Pale King

An Unfinished Novel
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Jun 06, 2011finally_finally rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
Yes, it's unfinished (some of this surely would have been cut). No, it doesn't have an ending. Yes, it's sometimes tedious. But the tedium is sort of the point--the idea is that making it through the tedium and making it through work and making it through things you don't want to do is what life is about. This should obviously not be your first David Foster Wallace book (that is what Consider the Lobster or Brief Interviews with Hideous Men are for), but for devotees, there's a lot to adore.