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The Pale King

David Foster Wallace · read 27 April 2011 to 3 May 2011

GradeC

Literary

538 pages.

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Who

One reader, one log, no committee. Every book I have finished since 2010 is here, graded the week I finished it and never revised to be nice. No sponsored placements, no affiliate links, no advance copies traded for kindness.

How a grade works

One grade per book, given the week I finish it. The scale runs A+ to D. The A list is the recommendation; everything else is in the log because the log is honest.

When two books tie for the best of a year, the one I read fastest wins, because pages a day is the closest thing I have to a measure of a book I could not put down.

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