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breadandmushrooms's review against another edition
challenging
emotional
reflective
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
5.0
patkohn's review against another edition
challenging
funny
hopeful
informative
inspiring
mysterious
reflective
sad
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
ponycanyon's review against another edition
5.0
Gaddis' final work, a deathbed monologue with very few sentence breaks about how technology ultimately destroys art, how commerce destroys everything (see J.R., any other Gaddis book ever), and how the artist ultimately destroys himself - in the context of a history of the player piano. You can read this in one sitting and still feel like your brain was just sodomized by that hadron particle collider in Switzerland. Totally amazing, sublimating of concepts and emotions in a way that poetry as a medium can only aspire to.
angelaonmars's review against another edition
challenging
emotional
informative
inspiring
reflective
tense
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
4.75
kingkong's review against another edition
4.0
100 pages of Gaddis rambling about things in Bernhards style is very cool
joaolino's review against another edition
2.0
Sem dúvida, tiro alguma coisa de proveitoso deste livro.
A escrita atabalhuada e confusa, ainda que faça sentido no contexto de um narrador prestes a morrer, implícito desde o início, acaba por tornar o livro numa experiência dificil.
A escrita atabalhuada e confusa, ainda que faça sentido no contexto de um narrador prestes a morrer, implícito desde o início, acaba por tornar o livro numa experiência dificil.
xvarenah's review against another edition
2.0
A complete mess. Really liked JR and The Recognitions, but this is just nonsense compiled by a bunch of editors with their heads so far up their own asses they just cared to publish something under the shamanic aura of the name 'William Gaddis'.
sentient_meat's review against another edition
4.0
The last novel of a great American writer. A great introduction to him. Once you have this one under your belt Carpenter's Gothic and The Recognitions are both phenomenal novels.