A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again
David Foster Wallace
7 people recommended it in 2 threads, 2019–2024.
What people on Hacker News said
This is just an amazing book and became one of my all time favorites
because it's a book about entertainment and how some forms of entertainment addictively destructive to our well-being, and that's why it's relevant today.
The idea that entertainment could be all engrossing and some forms of entertainment addictively destructive to our well-being? That we could have cameras in video conferences but would want them effectively off? It was delightfully/scarily prescient in some ways.
DFW is so insightful and hilarious that I think some of his skepticism seeped into my own thinking.
A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again (the essay collection) was amazing. I think about it often.
Where it comes up
- Ask HN: What's the "best" book you've ever read? 2024 · 5 recommendations
- Ask HN: Favorite Nonfiction Books of 2019? 2019 · 2 recommendations