Monday, August 3, 2009

Best Commencement Speech EVER:

If you haven't yet gotten a chance to discover this amazing speech for yourself, go look for it now before it's forever written off of the internet and you'll have to pay $14.99 to get a chance to read it again:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2008/sep/20/fiction

The book is so silly, I mean it basically breaks down the speech by printing a sentence per page, slapping a pretty solid book binding over it and then selling it for a huge profit of about $12 per book.

Anyways, I find David Foster Wallace is one of the best authors in terms of just his energetic style of writing and his way of presenting things up front without unnecessary details.

I read this speech first when I was in my junior year of high school and it really convinced me to see life differently. It puts the golden rule into a modern perspective and shaped my outlook on life. Really deep stuff.


1 comment:

  1. I read the speech.
    I had a good impression.
    I could discuss my personal thoughts, but I think I'll wait until you're back here and we can talk about it :)

    ReplyDelete