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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
ALL STEWED UP!,
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This review is from: Mulligan Stew (Paperback)
This is a book that includes parts of books and poems written by non-characters but discussed by an author who is a semi-main character writing a book about the main-main characters one of whom is writing part of the book he is a character in while also writing to us the readers of the overall book by Sorrentino. (I think I left out one level somewhere.)
This conglomeration of writers manage to break every literary rule and perhaps some Sorrentino invented just so he could violate them. Who SHOULD NOT read this book: ANYONE - 1. sensitive to strong language and/or sexual content. 2. who requires a book to have a beginning, middle and end. 3. who requires a plot. 4. who requires a reliable narrator. 5. who must know what the book is about (ever). 6. who doesn't have a sense of humor. and a whole bunch of the rest of the reading public. Who SHOULD read this book: 1. EVERYONE ELSE! Sorrentino did an amazing job of maintaining what he started throughout the book. You can't skim through portions because you will miss a lot of the zingers. I wonder how many parts he had to re-write because he slipped into "normal" writing mode - then had to go back and "write bad". This book will require some effort of you the reader - but the payoff is well worth it.
6 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
The mother of all parodies,
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Yes, it's a bit too long for my taste too (or reading speed?), but Sorrentino, at full gallop, as here, is amazing, constantly surprising, inexhaustibly imaginative and wild. Hard to imagine a more fiendish sendup of the excesses--the posturings, the vanities, the inanities--of writers, publishers, critics and academics . For me, out-loud laughs from front to back. I've so far read "The Sky Changes," "Little Casino," "Blue Pastoral" and now "Mulligan Stew," and this writer is a singularity, always fascinating. Maybe the brightest and most resourceful American writer alive, but a definite Modernist, Protean, and a man of many forms and styles.
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