Giles Goat-Boy General - GTFIH

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>>9101931
I got like 200ish pages before putting it on the shelf

I liked it for the most part, and the premise was funny and interesting, but it moved at an agonizingly slow pace.

I also felt it was really hammering in that "university is the universe" idea to a point of annoyance.

By page 150 I felt like I already got the point, and wasn't happy with the 600 pages left.

Luckily so few events happened in those 200 pages that I feel I can pick up at any time and start from that point again without a problem

https://www.goodreads.com/read_statuses/1156327848#comment_145737065 I also felt this was incredibly helpful in powering through those first few reels

>>9102028
Thanks Anon, for some reason I've found it difficult to find resources online for this novel so I appreciate the link.

Out of curiosity did you like the rest of Barth's work, and this was a lone dud? Or did you dislike all you've read/this is the only one you've read?

>>9102028
Wait so how did someone figure all this out?
Is it from context? (I haven't read it, but how would they get the jocasta?)

>>9102062
I'm only 75 pages in but a good fifth of those have already come up, and they are semi-clear via context.

>>9102038
i've only read the floating opera which i was pretty indifferent about

I love Barth's ideas, but his executions, at least from what I've read, are pretty forgettable

there are some pretty funny moments and puns and goos like that with regard to his prose, which i admire

>>9102070
Oh i see, that's good then.
I might give this book a chance, but i want to read the sot factory first

>>9102084
Did you get the edition that has The End of the Road as well? If so give it a try, it's much better.

>>9102086
The Sot-Weed Factor is a more sure thing, definitely read it, it's wonderful. Also one of the funniest books I've ever read

>>9102084
Oh and I forgot to add, obviously give TSWF a chance, it's his opus. I feel you may have gotten a bad sample, as TFO was the book he wrote while he was very young, for his masters I believe