Who recommended String Theory?

4 people have recommended String Theory in the interviews, articles and reading lists we track, including Bill Gates and Ben Shapiro. Each name links to their full reading list.

Is String Theory worth reading?

4 people we track recommend it. It is best for: a sportswriter polishing long-form features who wants to study rich descriptive technique and sentence-level bravura to make technical play feel vivid; an avid tennis player or coach trying to find language for match dynamics and psychological texture when explaining pressure moments to students or friends; a creative-writing student drafting personal essays who needs examples of sustained voice, digression, and how to turn obsessive detail into thematic payoff. It may not suit: you'll likely put it down when long, multi-clause sentences and repeated tangents pile up—if you prefer concise prose, expect an early stop; annoying if you prefer straight reportage with minimal author presence; the writer’s opinions and asides are persistent and sometimes domineering; you'll lose interest if you don't care about tennis specifics—the technical jargon and match minutiae can feel like padding rather than insight.

What books are like String Theory?

Readers of String Theory also turn to The Inner Game of Tennis, Open and Men Explain Things to Me, based on the lists and recommenders these books share.

String Theory: Recommended by 4 People

Name: String Theory
Author: David Foster Wallace

An instant classic of American sportswriting?the tennis essays of David Foster Wallace, ?the best mind of his generation? (A. O. Scott) and ?the best tenniswriter of all time? (New York Times) Both a onetime "neargreat junior tennis player" and a lifelong connoisseur of the finer points of the game, David Foster Wallace wrote about tennis with th...