Consider the Lobster

Book cover of Consider the Lobster: And Other Essays

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This celebrated collection of essays from the author of Infinite Jest is "brilliantly entertaining...Consider the Lobster proves once more why Wallace should be regarded as this generation's best comic writer" (Cleveland Plain Dealer).

Do lobsters feel pain? Did Franz Kafka have a funny bone? What is John Updike's deal, anyway?…

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1 author picked Consider the Lobster as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

Sam Carr

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I cried on behalf of all lobsters when I’d finished listening to the main essay, "Consider the Lobster," in this collection.

For me, it was a profound educational and emotional experience that jolted me into a deep sense of empathy for a creature I’d never really considered all that much up to now.

From Sam's list on the psychological challenges of being human.