Posted by Joffre on 29/4/2009, 22:37:35, in reply to "Re: On the Road"
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I haven't read either of these.
Although, I enjoyed Cather in the Rye well enough, I don't feel any interest in Franny and Zooey, and I didn't find any particular interest in the lecture.
I haven't read any Barth, and I've wondered what to read. Barth is known as a postmodernist, and that to some degree suggests difficulty, and so the length of The Sot Weed Factor is more of an issue, and I don't normally read short stories, so I've not felt much interest in Lost in the Funhouse. I do feel somewhat more interested in Lost in the Funhouse after watching the lecture though. The talking sperm story sounded amusing, and the Menelaus story seemed interesting in style.
I'll read The Crying of Lot 49, but it will be a few weeks. I'm reading Emma right now, and I'll read The Glass Bead Game next.
I got the Novelists and Novels book but haven't read more than the introduction yet. The selection looks pretty interesting. There are some books I've not seen discussed elsewhere. I notice The Glass Bead Game is there under the title Magister Ludi. It was quite depressing to read that Bloom considers Clarissa, an enormous book by the author of the awful Pamela, second only to Don Quixote in aesthetic eminence. I'll try to take some comfort from having been told that Fielding detested Pamela but liked Clarissa. I'd like to get the Epic book too, but it's too expensive for now.
