A) It’s a grammar challenge.
B) The source material is from David Foster Wallace.

How am I supposed to pass this up?

Here are the questions.
Here are the answers.

Go.

(I got 3/10 on a quick run through, and might have gotten two more had I spent more time on it.)

h/t to HTMLGIANT, obviously, by way of kottke.org

Yeah, so that quote on voting that I never got around to attributing . . . it comes from this article, penned by one of my favorite authors. An author so famously verbose that I suspect many of his magazine articles could have been, left uncut, made into books.

David Foster Wallace, 1962-2008.

Rest in peace, sir. You are already missed.

I stumbled upon this list of “essential reading for men”, and it intrigued me enough to actually browse the entire list. I certainly haven’t read everything on the list, but I was surprised how many of the “classics” I’d read in school – I guess my education wasn’t half bad after all.

I picked up A Confederacy of Dunces a while back, and still need to get to that, but I thought I’d single out two books in particular which you may not have read. It’s getting more likely that many of you have read Into Thin Air, especially with the release of the film version of the Krakauer’s other well-known work, Into The Wild, but I need to single it out anyway. It really is that good, and unlike a lot of the other books on the list. I suppose I should also read Into The Wild someday, huh?

The other one that I have to recommend is White Noise, by Don DeLillo. It’s a pretty quick read, but very good, and interestingly relevant to today’s America, considering it was written in 1985. Yes, I’m leaving this intentionally vague – just go read it.

What about you all? Any books on this list that you’ve read and would recommend?