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The piece is bylined with pseudonyms but bears the unmistakable mark of comic novelist David Foster Wallace: excessive footnotes, excessive and nontraditional abbreviations, excessive and occasionally cloying self-consciousness, gratuitous use of Latin phrases, and employment of 10 cent words such as "cathedra," "synecdoche," and "clerestories."
Praise goes to Georges Du Fresne, the child actor "who seems, in some prodigious way, to understand" his character (Stanley Kauffmann, the New Republic ). Dissenting, the Wall Street Journal 's Joe Morgenstern says the movie is cloying, "cheerful nonsense" and that its creators don't realize that "this kid is profoundly troubled."
[I]t may be the very irrelevance of royalty which has helped protect us from excesses of patriotic fervor," he wrote--comparing Australians favorably with Americans, who "have a cloying sentimentality about their history, their flag, their president and their system."
She says it lacks sourcing and attribution, "reverberates with the cloying sound of the talk-show confessional," and has a "propensity for Gothic melodrama and romance-novel prose."
My only complaints with High Fidelity were with a few cloying Growth Moments and the cute epilogue, a party at which Rob plays DJ and every character in the novel appears to issue a happy farewell.