Comments for SansPoint http://www.sanspoint.com Separating signifier and signified Fri, 03 Jul 2009 00:56:33 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 Comment on The Epic Novel, Suggestions? by fancycwabs http://www.sanspoint.com/archives/2008/11/29/the-epic-novel-suggestions/#comment-88 fancycwabs Wed, 24 Dec 2008 14:54:25 +0000 http://www.sanspoint.com/?p=237#comment-88 <p>Well, there's always <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Baroque_Cycle" rel="nofollow">this</a>. (Not the personal appeal from Wikipedia Founder Jimmy Wales, although that's probably epic, too.)</p> Well, there’s always this. (Not the personal appeal from Wikipedia Founder Jimmy Wales, although that’s probably epic, too.)

]]> Comment on The Epic Novel, Suggestions? by Rev. Syung Myung Me http://www.sanspoint.com/archives/2008/11/29/the-epic-novel-suggestions/#comment-86 Rev. Syung Myung Me Sun, 30 Nov 2008 19:29:50 +0000 http://www.sanspoint.com/?p=237#comment-86 <p>While I can KINDA see ripping a book in twain for SOME books, it strikes me that IJ would be particularly impossible in that respect, just with the footnotes and all. Like, unless you, I don't know, went back and ripped out the first half of the footnotes too. And then photocopied the FIlmography footnote to store with the other half, since it's kinda essential. And also the footnote of the essay about the Wheelchair Assassins that's referenced by a later footnote and then sort of makes more sense when you read it again. And, of course, the first 24 or so pages from the Year Of Glad for when you finish the book and go back to the beginning. Basically, at that point, it's just easier to carry the entire damn thing.</p> <p>Although I can see other books being in volumes, sort of like they do in Japan. Although I kinda hope they come together, but I don't think they do. Since it'd be kind of annoying to, say, read Part 1 of Wind Up Bird, and then have to pick up Part 2, and the store's out.</p> <p>And Kafka is a great one. Ben sort of thinks of it as sort of a mirror of Hard Boiled Wonderland, and I agree to some point. They do have some similar themes.</p> While I can KINDA see ripping a book in twain for SOME books, it strikes me that IJ would be particularly impossible in that respect, just with the footnotes and all. Like, unless you, I don’t know, went back and ripped out the first half of the footnotes too. And then photocopied the FIlmography footnote to store with the other half, since it’s kinda essential. And also the footnote of the essay about the Wheelchair Assassins that’s referenced by a later footnote and then sort of makes more sense when you read it again. And, of course, the first 24 or so pages from the Year Of Glad for when you finish the book and go back to the beginning. Basically, at that point, it’s just easier to carry the entire damn thing.

Although I can see other books being in volumes, sort of like they do in Japan. Although I kinda hope they come together, but I don’t think they do. Since it’d be kind of annoying to, say, read Part 1 of Wind Up Bird, and then have to pick up Part 2, and the store’s out.

And Kafka is a great one. Ben sort of thinks of it as sort of a mirror of Hard Boiled Wonderland, and I agree to some point. They do have some similar themes.

]]> Comment on The Epic Novel, Suggestions? by mattbucher http://www.sanspoint.com/archives/2008/11/29/the-epic-novel-suggestions/#comment-85 mattbucher Sun, 30 Nov 2008 02:40:56 +0000 http://www.sanspoint.com/?p=237#comment-85 <p>And oh yeah, you can get a paperback edition of 2666 that comes in a three-volume boxed set: http://www.amazon.com/2666-3-Boxed-Set-Novel/dp/0374531552/ref=ed_oe_p</p> And oh yeah, you can get a paperback edition of 2666 that comes in a three-volume boxed set:
http://www.amazon.com/2666-3-Boxed-Set-Novel/dp/0374531552/ref=ed_oe_p

]]> Comment on The Epic Novel, Suggestions? by mattbucher http://www.sanspoint.com/archives/2008/11/29/the-epic-novel-suggestions/#comment-84 mattbucher Sun, 30 Nov 2008 02:38:08 +0000 http://www.sanspoint.com/?p=237#comment-84 <p>Dude, 2666. We are doing a group read of this gargantuan novel starting in January: http://groups.google.com/group/bolano-l?hl=en&pli=1</p> Dude, 2666. We are doing a group read of this gargantuan novel starting in January: http://groups.google.com/group/bolano-l?hl=en&pli=1

]]> Comment on The Epic Novel, Suggestions? by Richard J. Anderson http://www.sanspoint.com/archives/2008/11/29/the-epic-novel-suggestions/#comment-83 Richard J. Anderson Sat, 29 Nov 2008 23:08:48 +0000 http://www.sanspoint.com/?p=237#comment-83 <p>I did <a href="http://www.sanspoint.com/archives/2008/01/21/_house-of-leaves_-and-some-thoughts-about-multiple-points-of-view/" rel="nofollow">make a post about <em>House of Leaves</em></a>, but I don't think I said much after I finished it. I enjoyed it immensely, and would like to re-read it. I respectfully disagree about Johnny Truant's narrative. I'm not sure why, but I feel as though the work as a whole would suffer if that was removed. It doesn't seem essential, but it feels essential.</p> <p>Also, I can understand tearing IJ in half, to a point, because it is like a brick to lug around. So was the hardback of Gravity's Rainbow I checked out of the library. However, the librarian in me (blame my mother) gets just as skeeved and concerned. WHY! Well, I suppose she could use that clear duct tape to put it back together... and there's nothing to STOP her from re-reading it... just... in parts.</p> <p>Man, why don't books come out in multiple volumes anymore? It would make our lives so much easier. They do it that way in Japan! <em>The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle</em> was in two volumes, and you could carry one on the train and read it, then carry the other, and it would be okay! They should do that here!</p> <p>Also, I just finished <em>Kafka on the Shore</em> and man, that is a wild fucking book. I think I will cleanse my palate with <em>Consider the Lobster</em>, as I haven't read any good essays in a while.</p> I did make a post about House of Leaves, but I don’t think I said much after I finished it. I enjoyed it immensely, and would like to re-read it. I respectfully disagree about Johnny Truant’s narrative. I’m not sure why, but I feel as though the work as a whole would suffer if that was removed. It doesn’t seem essential, but it feels essential.

Also, I can understand tearing IJ in half, to a point, because it is like a brick to lug around. So was the hardback of Gravity’s Rainbow I checked out of the library. However, the librarian in me (blame my mother) gets just as skeeved and concerned. WHY! Well, I suppose she could use that clear duct tape to put it back together… and there’s nothing to STOP her from re-reading it… just… in parts.

Man, why don’t books come out in multiple volumes anymore? It would make our lives so much easier. They do it that way in Japan! The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle was in two volumes, and you could carry one on the train and read it, then carry the other, and it would be okay! They should do that here!

Also, I just finished Kafka on the Shore and man, that is a wild fucking book. I think I will cleanse my palate with Consider the Lobster, as I haven’t read any good essays in a while.

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