Dean Goranites bringing you a book review of
David Foster Wallace’s
“The Broom of the System.”  “The Broom of the System”
was released in 1988 
as part of the college project that David
Foster Wallace was working out as a thesis.
It's his first novel and it follows the
main character Lenore Beadsman.
Lenore finds herself in a bit of trouble
when her grandmother, 
who she goes to visit weekly
at her nursing home (her grandmother is 
also named Lenore), goes missing
and nobody who works at the nursing home
knows where she went.  And on top of it,
a good number of other people
who Lenore was known to be good friends
with, have also gone missing.
Lenore goes looking for her
grandmother and along the way she has to
reintroduce yourself to a sister that
she doesn't talk to a whole lot…
she goes to meet her stoner brother who
is really not doing much with his life and
she's lost contact with him too…
and even some crazier things are going on
Like her pet bird has started talking in full
sentences and she doesn't know why. 
This is all written in very similar 
David Foster Wallace
Style, if you've read his other stuff
Before.  It seems like a little bit of a
slimmed down version of “Infinite Jest,”
which is widely considered his best work.
It doesn't include the footnotes and 
endnotes and all that extensive stuff
that he became more well-known for as
he got older, but instead lends itself
well to a good intro book.  If you're
looking to get into the author but
you've been a little scared of his
biggest work, which was over a
thousand pages long,
try this one out.
I give it four out of five stars.  
I think David Foster Wallace 
is a great author and I think 
you might like him too.
Until next time.
