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David Foster Wallace, Duke Riley: Broom of the System (2010, Penguin Publishing Group) 5 stars

Lenore Beadsman, a 24-year-old telephone switchboard operator who gets caught in the middle of a …

Review of 'Broom of the System' on 'Goodreads'

5 stars

Wanted to finish this, DFW's first published work, before reading [b:The Pale King|9443405|The Pale King|David Foster Wallace|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1301009847s/9443405.jpg|6498897], his last.

Broom is funny, multi-leveled, erudite without being unreadable. Overall a brilliant work. I understand that DFW refused to incorporate several edits and later regretted that decision. Would have been interesting to see how the book would have ended up, but as published, I am very impressed.

 And no footnotes.