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Sergio De La Pava

Författare till A Naked Singularity

4+ verk 715 medlemmar 33 recensioner 1 favoritmärkta

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Foto taget av: Photo by Genevieve McCarthy, found at Time Out Chicago.

Verk av Sergio De La Pava

A Naked Singularity (2008) 524 exemplar
Lost Empress: A Novel (2018) 104 exemplar
Personae (2011) 86 exemplar
Çıplak Tekillik (2019) 1 exemplar

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Födelsedag
1970
Kön
male
Nationalitet
USA

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I was hoping for another naked singularity, but alas, this isn’t one
 
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diveteamzissou | 2 andra recensioner | Dec 2, 2022 |
4.5 stars. Justice system, crime and boxing stuff great--Television and wacky neighbor stuff not so great. Should be a Coen brothers movie one day.
 
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AlexThurman | 22 andra recensioner | Dec 26, 2021 |
I'm giving up. A Naked Singularity is like a slightly more legible Infinite Jest, what with all the nasty digressions (which I actually appreciated in the beginning though they slowly became more and more overwhelming in their irrelevance and underwhelming in their literary merits) and infinite, somewhat-entertaining theorization and larger-than-life (and so fucking irritating) characters, all of whom speak like philosophy pHDs.

There's a point at which I clearly lost momentum, and the digressions had stopped doing it for me, and I started flipping past them to get to the next chunk of likable literature. That's when I knew I had to quit. Also, it's hard not to get annoyed at all the Wallacian ticks that de la Pava is so into, being all clever and ironic and shit. At some point past the 400th page, all of it got on my nerves, and I started being completely turned off even by the good parts.

I especially wanted to burn that weird boxing digression.

I can't give it one star, though, because I really liked the first two or so hundred pages, especially the legal dialogue, which rang true and punched right into my gut. Other than that... fuck man. Literature needs to get over DFW and start sounding authentic.
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Gadi_Cohen | 22 andra recensioner | Sep 22, 2021 |
actually really pretty good

did the third part remind anyone of that story in slow learner about entropy
 
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icedtati | 22 andra recensioner | Sep 7, 2021 |

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Medlemmar
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Betyg
3.8
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33
ISBN
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4
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