Women and Men (NP)

[rich]

pbly should read Lookout Cartridge first or better yet Smuggler's Bible

when reading women and men think the connection between the individual, the
group, the nation, and the cosmos--it's all happening all at once, past
present future and it's much more readable than Finnegans Wake
(not that I finished the book either, natch)

i actually enjoy the lack of paranoid dread pace Cartridge in McElroy

and he's also from queens

someone I want to read again for sure

rich


On 5/24/06, jd <wescac at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> So I started reading Women and Men by Joseph McElroy a couple of days
> ago.  I'm about 60 or 70 pages in and pretty goddamn lost, and
> generally I'm pretty good at following stream of conscious styled
> writing.  Granted, I've been pretty damn tired the last few days, so
> maybe that's it.
>
> Anyways, I was wondering if anyone out there has read it, and maybe
> had the same problem, and might perhaps be able to tell me if it gets
> a little more coherent later on, and if they consider it worth the
> struggle.  I'm on the verge of shelving it for something else but I've
> gotten 40 pages in to this book three times in the past five years and
> shelved it each time.  I think that this time it's now or never.
>
> That said, I did like the first little bit about the birth.  It just
> seems to have gotten incoherent after that point.  Like the author
> knew what was going on at all times, perhaps, but didn't give enough
> info to the reader to let them know.
>
>
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