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First review of The Pale King

General spolier warning: As reviews appear I will make every attempt to avoid spoilers appearing on the front page of the Fantods. If you don't want to know anything, don't follow the links... 

Jonathan Segura has a review of The Pale King up over at Publishers Weekly (reasonably heavy spoilers).

In response to the review, Nina Shen Rastogi from Brow Beat over at Slate.com writes (including minor spoilers):

The verdict? The Pale King isn't "the era-defining monumental work we've all been waiting for since Infinite Jest altered the landscape of American fiction." But parts of it are "nothing short of sublime," others are "pants-pissingly hilarious," and the chapters that center on [spoilers] are "tiny masterpieces of that whole self-aware po-mo thing of his that's so heavily imitated." Even in its incomplete state, reviewer Jonathan Segura notes, "the book is unmistakably a David Foster Wallace affair."

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