okay, i have never before written a “book review pre-post”…i.e. i have not yet finished the book Consider The Lobster by David Foster Wallace…but i have to say something…

there is one problem with Consider The Lobster…i am just not smart enough to read it.  i am enjoying it immensely, and i’m actually learning (a lot actually), which is great, however i feel quite sure that if i finish it i will never write another word again (blog or otherwise).  Consider The Lobster is having the opposite effect on me that reading Soon I Will Be Invincible had.  after reading SIWBI, i felt almost invincible, i felt sure my book could be published, i felt sure that i was not a hack, because other bigger hacks were out there getting book deals (in bidding wars!) and movie deals and second book deals…oy.  however, when i read Wallace i am convinced that i am the greatest of hacks and that it would physcially hurt Mr. Wallace’s eyes to read just one of my horrible mistake ridden evil disgusting sentences. 

i guess this is what comes from aiming too high.  of wanting to be in the company of people you admire instead of people you revile.  to be the best most amazing fish in a barrel of crappy lame limpish fish or to be the crappiest lamest limpiest fish in the barrel of brilliant amazing fish.  oh me.  what to do, what to do?

suggestions?

fyi – in addition to making up words like “limpish” and my new favorite “limpiest” i also greatly overuse the word brilliant.  in some later post i’ll tally up how many times i’ve used it in this fairly new blog.  i think the number will likely be astounding…in an embarrasing way…