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Christie Malry's Own Double-Entry by B.S. Johnson
For some reason this is the only own of his novels I haven't read. A bit like ignoring the hit and concentrating on the deep cuts.
― Are Animated Dads Getting Hotter? (Tom D.), Friday, 4 June 2021 14:22 (five hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
i've had the (not worthless) movie on DVD for year and still haven't got round to reading it
― Lage Lage Lage Shooting (Noodle Vague), Friday, 4 June 2021 19:21 (two years ago) link
I'd love to vote for the Scliar, which I know I liked, but I remember nothing about it, so I'm going with The Great American Novel, the highlight of Roth's mostly ignored/forgotten boffo comedy period.
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Friday, 4 June 2021 21:15 (two years ago) link
The Great American Novel, the highlight of Roth's mostly ignored/forgotten boffo comedy period. Intriguing!
I love of some of GR, a few parts, and some of the rest works fairly well, but not enough for me to vote for it. Instead, will go for Great Jones Street: like Americana it's funny, eerie, thoughtful, mobile, and too talky, as the author seems to realize, considering the ending, which kinda works, and the monologues, individually, are pretty good, also conversations. The narrator is an Iggy Dylan, who likes to run around the atage naked, and writes pretty good lyrics. He has a British colleague who specializes in "bitckpicking": fussing with one sweater-pill of the song 'til the whole thing comes unraveled, in a gloriously maddening way. ID goes away, to ponder things, in a walk-up on early 70s Great Jones St. Meets some tawwwky bastards, also his girlfriend visits. Imperfect, but I'm going with it.
― dow, Monday, 7 June 2021 01:00 (two years ago) link
oh, how is The Rachel Papers?? Have read that MA's early novels actually don't suck.
― dow, Monday, 7 June 2021 01:02 (two years ago) link
In my early twenties I read Slaugherhouse Five, thought it was fine; read Cat's Cradle, thought it was ok; read Breakfast of Champions, thought it was a laugh riot. Of course I don't remember a thing about it now.