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| Original Title: | The Floating Opera and The End of the Road |
| ISBN: | 0385240899 (ISBN13: 9780385240895) |
| Edition Language: | English |
John Barth
Paperback | Pages: 442 pages Rating: 4.03 | 1960 Users | 117 Reviews
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| Title | : | The Floating Opera and The End of the Road |
| Author | : | John Barth |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 442 pages |
| Published | : | March 11th 1997 by Anchor Books (first published 1958) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Literature. American. Novels |
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The Floating Opera and The End Of The Road are John Barth's first two novels. Their relationship to each other is evident not only in their ribald subject matter but in the eccentric characters and bitterly humorous tone of the narratives. Both concern strange, consuming love triangles and the destructive effect of an overactive intellect on the emotions. Separately they give two very different views of a universal human drama.Rating Containing Books The Floating Opera and The End of the Road
Ratings: 4.03 From 1960 Users | 117 ReviewsEvaluation Containing Books The Floating Opera and The End of the Road
I read these two books in college and had the opportunity to meet John Barth at a book signing in the mid-eighties. He looked like a good author should: blazing eyes, etc. I told him I loved the two books so much. He said, "I wrote those when I was just about your age. It would be interesting to see if you liked them so much in twenty years." Then I told him I was going to read The Sot Weed Factor next. He said, "Don't waste your time on more of my books--there are too many good ones out thereMy first experience with John Barth was with his collection of short stories "Lost in the Fun House." I was magnified by his finesse with language and, although I didn't feel that all of those stories were successes (and what writer's ever are?), he left me spellbound as to the potential of future fiction. Having come across him through one of my favorite authors David Foster Wallace and his story "Westward the Course of Empire Takes it's Way," which was a response to Barth's short story from
One-minute review: The Floating Opera goooood! The End of the Road baaaaaaad!And yet, despite the disappointment of the second book, I still want to throw myself immediately into Giles Goat-Boy, which should tell you the power of John Barth.P.S. The Sot-Weed Factor also good.
I first heard about this book in one of my undergrad philosophy classes. I always thought of it as a philosophical treatise and felt a little intimidated by it. As I was looking back on the books I read in 2010, I realized I had read a lot of pulpy fiction and was feeling like I should add something with a little more mental nutrition to my night stand. With this goal in mind, I decided to go to the Floating Opera. While I feel like I did get the intellectual stimulation I felt I needed, I was
John Barth is the kind of writer who, if you are not a writer, makes you want to write or, if you are trying to be a writer, makes you want to stop completely, as you feel that you could not possibly explore things more thoroughly and eloquently as he can. In short, he is a joy to read.His characters are at once logical and absurd, universal and absolutely inhuman. They are at once everything that the reader wants to be and everything that he or she finds ridiculous. In this sense, though they
3.5 stars. I only read The Floating Opera but it was solid. Nice weavings of philosophy+story but also could not really escape that 1st novel amateurishness of it, esp. since it came out so long ago
I read these two books in college and had the opportunity to meet John Barth at a book signing in the mid-eighties. He looked like a good author should: blazing eyes, etc. I told him I loved the two books so much. He said, "I wrote those when I was just about your age. It would be interesting to see if you liked them so much in twenty years." Then I told him I was going to read The Sot Weed Factor next. He said, "Don't waste your time on more of my books--there are too many good ones out there
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