I saw it some years ago. I have to agree with the Author's assessment. It was no good. ... Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up...
... his reaction. Actually, no - I never got around to buying it. But I intend to do so some day. This link from Comrade Edelman's made me particularly...
"Adapted from John Barth's first [sic] novel, The End of The Road, published in 1958, the film is faithful to the book's distanced narrative. Jacob Horner...
. . .I see that *Coming Soon!!!* is now available in Mariner Books paperback. ________________________________________________ Don't E-Mail, ZipMail!...
... Down Here it's just become available as an Atlantic Books (London) paperback. I got my copy 6 days ago and am circling it with a view to a cautious early...
... than ... You could well strike it lucky, Martin. Twenty years ago when I heard the word on LETTERS I went looking in Adelaide's artiest bookstore. There...
My main reason for suspecting this might happen is that his last couple have ended up that way, and hardbacks often get remaindered once the paperback is out....
... Atlantic Books (London) paperback. I see the artwork is as disappointing as its American counterpart. (Is that supposed to be an osprey or what?) Don't...
... Well. Cheek-by-jowel with it was a rerelease of The Sot-Weed Factor from the same publishers, and with the VERY SAME cover illustration. I assume it's an...
... Indeed I did. But I'm still "wrapped around" by pleasant anticipation. Hello, big fire started out in the hills direction. And here come the choppers....
I have a copy of this book, and though it's a little too scholarly for my tastes, it provides interesting discussions and analyses. I like the excerpts from...
On Sun, 29 Dec 2002 05:37:14 -0000 ... This image actually appears in LETTERS itself in one of the early 'Author' pieces. (Is it 'Author to the Reader' or ...
... I stand with you on the Cook/Burlingame letters as well, tho LETTERS is my top Barth novel. My favorite moment is 6/7ths of the way in when (SPOILER ALERT...
... (NON PC JOKE ALERT) Reminds me of what Prince Charles said about a decade or two ago when he was asked what was his favorite place to go in the United...
I'd like to take a little poll. Which story in "Lost in the Funhouse" is your favorite? He said "Short fiction is not my long suit", but in future books that...
... Funhouse" ... (where's the rim shot?) A favorite--"Ambrose His Mark", with the indelible image of a swarm of honeybees flitting on the sleeping woman and...
... [Ba-bing!] [Note to self: experiment w/ a story about a taping of Letterman narrated from Anton Fig's p.o.v. Reconsult David Foster Wallace's *My...
... From: <Alan_Plessinger@...> ... I would have to say Night Sea Journey for sure. It was the first thing of Barth's I had ever read (besides...
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Mark, Did you ever see Barth do a public reading of "Menelaid";? It was a show-- with the man himself (30 years younger, to be sure) leaping about the stage,...
On Tue, 31 Dec 2002 15:27:16 EST ... No I hadn't yet heard of Barth yet back then. Then again, I was less than a year old. I do have this, though: [Barth,...
... BTW, he reads "Echo" and either "Title" or "Autobiography", I forget which. ________________________________________________ Don't E-Mail, ZipMail!...
I'm also a fan of Dickens, and I guess there's not two writers less alike than Barth and Dickens. For many reasons, not the least of which being that Dickens...
our current non-read certainly has earnest, emotional, poignant passages which remain self-conscious but imho no less affecting ... From: electraalan...
Hello and hope you all survive(d) the ruination of yet another new year party. I did, barely. Well, apropos the subject line, I think it's horses for courses....
... create a truly earnest, emotional, poignant ... I think many of his characters have individual moments--epiphanies, if you will--that stand out for...
