Evan’s Reviews > The Tin Drum > Status Update

In the home stretch and this baby hasn't weakened at all. Going to be, I think, my favorite read of the year along with Burroughs' Naked Lunch.

Score one for me. The references to Klepp staying in bed for days took my mind straight to Oblomov, and I checked it out with the great AI brain, and it's true. I haven't even gotten to the part yet where Oblomov is expressly referenced in the book. Knowing lit helps in knowing other lit.

...smiled at Nature's efforts to play Spring and make buds burst like tiny firecrackers right on time."
No wonder this mothereffer won the Nobel Prize.

"...the most gifted of politicians...immediately reject whatever they have just created."
Sound familiar?

Oskar throws his drum, and himself, into his (presumptive) father's grave, and begins to grow. This hit me hard. What absolute mastery. What an imaginative story, crazily and ingenuously written. What is left for mad Oskar? Let's see.