Reading List Completists discussion

General discussion of The Recognitions here

I will be re reading bits and pieces along with everyone. Looking forward to everyone's thoughts

TheLongWait wrote: "I will be re reading bits and pieces along with everyone. Looking forward to everyone's thoughts"

How did I know you would be the first to comment on this thread!? ;)

Indeed, lol. What do you think so far?

TheLongWait wrote: "Indeed, lol. What do you think so far?"

So far, I have read the intro. Lots of talk about Finnegan's Wake, which is a bit scary . . .

So, lack quotation marks - leading conversations with a hyphen. Rachel (who mentioned she will be joining this read later on) does not care for that. Why do you suppose the author did that for this book?

Damnit, I guess I'll have to catch up with you guys because I forgot to grab The Recognitions at the American Library in Paris today. Sounds like a slow start tho...

I believe Gaddis did so to make a natural flow, and also to make the reader pay attention. It continues throughout the novel so pay attention.
And I enjoyed the opening of the novel as Gaddis paints such a vivid back story.

There is plot here, but the structure and the prose are what grabbed me.

I do notice - but in looking back at Part I rather than while reading it - the motif of "Recognitions" but it is still painful reading.

Someone just sent me this link - could prove very useful!

http://www.williamgaddis.org/recognit...

Well, my checkout and renewals ran out at the library. So, they have to send it back to the library it came from and then that library has to send it back. Needless to say it will be a few weeks before I make more progress . . .

Back in business! Just got the book back from the library. No chance I will remember what was going on, so just gonna dive back in!

My review - this was not the book for me!

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