Not sure it would be possible to give a book a title more viscerally repellant to me than Giles Goat-Boy or The Sot-Weed Factor. There is no way I could ever read either.
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Replying to @levistahl
You'd like The Sot-Weed Factor, I think. It's kind of amazing as a stylistic achievement.
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Ha! You and
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But your suspicion of Barth has some merit. Some of the books -- Letters, say -- test the patience.
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It was the Heaven's Gate of the 1970s experimental novel. It killed the genre.
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So does that mean it's due for a revival, a reconsideration, and a marquee republication?
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Alas, I think only the hardest of hard core Barth fans will rediscover this book. For most readers, other books will suffice.
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