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Bezig met laden... You & Me: A Noveldoor Padgett Powell
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. Hilarious retelling of "Waiting for Godot." There are many stupendous one-liners throughout the book. ( ) What if this author, who used to be pretty good, you know, now could only write a book that is an inane conversation between two old geezers about pretty much nothing? You mean theoretically? No. Oh. That's sad. Yes, it is. But aren't there any good points? I'll bet there are some good blurbs, right? One blurb compares it to Nicholson Baker. Meaning a book about nothing, or where nothing really happens? The Mezzanine? Yes, except in The Mezzanine there is quite a lot of interesting stuff. Like? What the ends of shoelaces are called. What are they called? Aglets. Cool. That is interesting. No, really, you know what I mean. You read the damned thing. That wasn't Baker, that was Bierce. I was speaking figuratively. Huh? Never mind. I'm the one who just had to read 190 some-odd pages to turn up only a few memorable phrases. Other than that, it's mainly meaningless wordplay and moaning about growing old. I could moan about that. Not for 190 some-odd pages. Probably not. What about the few memorable phrases? Well, let me see. There was something about telling Charon, "Take me down to Funky Town, my man." I'm ROTFL. You're not. Next. "Failure is to success as water is to land." I'm on an island myself, surrounded by failure on all sides. Don't look at me like that. I'm not telling you the rest. Actually, as I look at them on my Kindle, they really aren't that profound. Do you feel like reading the book was largely a waste of time? Yep. So should I read it? Nope. Shall we have a drink now? More than one, my man.
The sound “You & Me” mostly makes is that of a writer not hitting a dead end, exactly, but of a writer not appearing to try very hard. This short book, with its short chapters each topped by an ampersand, is mostly winding filler, talk that doesn’t seem quite worthy of the name. Prijzen
"A scabrous, Southern send-up of WAITING FOR GODOT by the novelist Sam Lipsyte hails as "one of the few truly important American writers of our time.""-- Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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