![]() ![]() Among the good stuff, I was especially impressed by the underutilized Norman Bombardini, a grotesquely obese Mr. There are some good scenes throughout, but too many of them are too long, extending several pages past the limit of readerly patience. The first hundred pages of The Broom of the System are pretty good, the next two hundred somewhat less so, and the last 167 a major league yawnfest. Of course, it's September 11, 1990, in the near-future of the novel's few early readers. ![]() In a truly creepy coincidence that every reader today will be unable to ignore, David Foster Wallace's 1987 novel The Broom of the System is brought to its pseudo-apocalyptic climax on-of all the 365 days DFW might have chosen-the eleventh of September. ![]()
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