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Bezig met laden... Laat maar waaien (1974)door William Kotzwinkle
Bezig met laden...
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. The great thing about Kotzwinkle is that he tries a bunch of different stuff, making each novel completely different than the next in style and subject matter. Overall, this is a brilliant piece that makes you want to live your life more...spontaneously? It's hard to put down for more than a few minutes. And god forbid you should read it on dorky day. The great thing about Kotzwinkle is that he tries a bunch of different stuff, making each novel completely different than the next in style and subject matter. Overall, this is a brilliant piece that makes you want to live your life more...spontaneously? It's hard to put down for more than a few minutes. And god forbid you should read it on dorky day. This book is on the 1001 Books to Read before you Die list and I suppose I can see why it is there. It was written in 1974 but really I would say it dates back to the free love and drug hippy culture of the late 1960s. Horse Badorties, the central character, stands for all the stoned drop outs from mainstream society and he does it marvelously. I can't say I would have wanted to have anything to do with him but he would have been fun to observe from a distance. Horse lives in New York City and he intends to have a unique musical concert in Tompkins Square with a choir of 15 year old chicks (i.e. young girls), drums, a saxophone player and battery operated fans for everyone. He even talks someone at NBC into filming it. He has other ideas for the concert but some things, like a decrepit school bus, don't make it to the final chapter. T. C. Boyle calls Horse Badorties the Don Quixote of modern time albeit without Sancho Panza and that seems appropriate. Horse may not have windmills to tilt at but other things get in his way. You just have to laugh out loud at some of the scrapes Horse gets himself into. And other things make you shake your head. I'm glad I read this but I'm also glad that it wasn't any longer than 147 pages. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
Selected for a Pharos Editions' reissue by T.C. Boyle and featuring a foreword by Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Pharos Editions is proud to announce the long awaited revival of William Kotzwinkle's cult comic classic,The Fan Man. And just in time it is, too, man. If you haven't read it you are in for a rare and wondrous treat. If you have, isn't it about time you returned that copy you borrowed from your best pal Pete back in '74 and replace it with this stunning new edition, man? I am all alone in my pad, man, my piled-up-to-the-ceiling-with-junk pad. Piled with sheet music, with piles of garbage bags bursting with rubbish and encrusted frying pans piled on the floor, embedded with unnameable flecks of putrefied wretchedness in grease. My pad, man, my own little Lower East Side Horse Badorties pad. . . . . . .And so it begins Badorties' narration of his down-at-the-heels drug-fueled befuddlement in New York City circa 1970. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Google Books — Bezig met laden... GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)813.54Literature English (North America) American fiction 20th Century 1945-1999LC-classificatieWaarderingGemiddelde:
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Otherwise the novel is slapstick, occasionally funny but mostly juvenile. Others have dealt with drugs and squalor in a much more interesting and entertaining way. ( )