Current reading

[Bekah]

At 11:46 PM +0100 1/29/05, Francois Monti wrote:
>Sot-weed Factor by John Barth. Very funny but I'm in the last 150 pages
>and am kinda thinking it's getting a little too long...


I could appreciate very, very few parts of Sot-weed Factor .  It was 
too dense, too long and too convoluted; the language was too 
obviously fabricated. In fact, the book kind of repelled me in the 
reverse way that some language draws me in.  The language in The 
Sot-Weed Factor made me want to push away.   I liked the original 
poem better. (Now that's not saying much for the book!) (lol)

There were a few parts scattered around the Pocahantas scenes which 
were kind of funny if I'm pressured for some kind of positive remark.

I mentioned this to a friend who knows my passion for Mason & Dixon 
and he could not figure out why I would like (looorve) Pynchon and 
detest Barth; they were the same thing to him.  Not so, sayeth I, but 
could not fathom the difference.  Pynchon is not so dark, or heavy 
handed or something.  Mason & Dixon is magical.   :)

Bekah