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Chrishayden
"Cyniquian" Level Poster
Username: Chrishayden
Post Number: 6315
Registered: 03-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, February 19, 2008 - 10:10 am: | 
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Just got this one--taken me a few days just to get through a third of it--but that is Wideman--his deep, poetic stream of consciousness Black Joycean thang makes you WORK!
But it's GOOD for you.
Anybody else reading it? |
Mike_e
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Username: Mike_e
Post Number: 23
Registered: 01-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, February 19, 2008 - 01:13 pm: |
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Just started it . I agree wholeheartedly with your opinion. Its been awhile since Wideman has written any long form fiction I find myself enjoying it very much. Except I don't think the Joycean angle is entirely appropriate in describing his work. |
Chrishayden
"Cyniquian" Level Poster
Username: Chrishayden
Post Number: 6321
Registered: 03-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, February 20, 2008 - 01:04 pm: |
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I don't think the Joycean angle is entirely appropriate in describing his work.
(Why not? He earlier admitted himself that Joyce was one of his big influences--read, especially his first novel
His work tends to be autobiographical like Joyces, also very naturalistic and scatalogical) |
Mike_e
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Username: Mike_e
Post Number: 24
Registered: 01-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, February 20, 2008 - 02:38 pm: |
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I guess I will have to read some more James Joyce. I see where Joyce is an influence but he also cites Faulkner & others. When I think of Joyce I think of Finnegans Wake & Willam Mevin Kelley's riff Dunsfords Travels Everywheres. Thanks for setting me straight. |
Chrishayden
"Cyniquian" Level Poster
Username: Chrishayden
Post Number: 6323
Registered: 03-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, February 20, 2008 - 02:44 pm: |
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Read Ulysees or Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Ulysees especially) |
Cynique
"Cyniquian" Level Poster
Username: Cynique
Post Number: 11579
Registered: 01-2004
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Votes: 1 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, February 20, 2008 - 03:48 pm: |
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Well, I'm certainly more motivated to read this book than - "Succulent Chocolate Flava 2".  |
Chrishayden
"Cyniquian" Level Poster
Username: Chrishayden
Post Number: 6327
Registered: 03-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, February 21, 2008 - 01:13 pm: |
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Well, I'm certainly more motivated to read this book than - "Succulent Chocolate Flava 2".
(I know, Cynique.
Like me you read for escape. Reading about twosomes, threesomes, foursomes, orgies, mad scandalous oral sex, creeping, cheating, getting your freak on--that realistic, everday slice of life stuff don't do it for you.
Ahh, everybody can't be a supersex machine like us--too bad.
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Cynique
"Cyniquian" Level Poster
Username: Cynique
Post Number: 11614
Registered: 01-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, February 21, 2008 - 01:20 pm: |
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Sorry. I prefer my passion in the flesh, not verbalized in book form, or embodied in street walking crack heads trolling the sidewalks of St. Louis. |
Chrishayden
"Cyniquian" Level Poster
Username: Chrishayden
Post Number: 6328
Registered: 03-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, February 21, 2008 - 01:29 pm: |
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Sorry. I prefer my passion in the flesh, not verbalized in book form, or embodied in street walking crack heads trolling the sidewalks of St. Louis
(Nasty as you WANNABE! Ungh! Get it. Double up on it! 'Scuze me while I do the bougaloo!) |
Cynique
"Cyniquian" Level Poster
Username: Cynique
Post Number: 11619
Registered: 01-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, February 21, 2008 - 02:43 pm: |
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Anybody who has to explain their "jokes", hasn't told one. 
Now stop pouting because you couldn't snare a hooker, and go back to giving yourself a hand job. |
Chrishayden
"Cyniquian" Level Poster
Username: Chrishayden
Post Number: 6336
Registered: 03-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, February 21, 2008 - 02:46 pm: |
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I'll hand YOUR job, you pathetic loser!
What do you think about Omar getting whacked |
Cynique
"Cyniquian" Level Poster
Username: Cynique
Post Number: 11621
Registered: 01-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, February 21, 2008 - 02:52 pm: |
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