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3.45 AVERAGE
3.45 AVERAGE
cool in an experimental way but respectfully wtf was actually happening
Worst book ever written and I'm unsure why it's even in print.
adventurous
challenging
funny
inspiring
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
challenging
funny
hopeful
inspiring
reflective
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
If Laurence Sterne has a million fans, then I am one of them.
If Laurence Sterne has ten fans, then I am one of them.
If Laurence Sterne has only one fan then that is me.
If Laurence Sterne has no fans, then that means I am no longer on earth.
If the world is against Laurence Sterne, then I am against the world.
If Laurence Sterne has ten fans, then I am one of them.
If Laurence Sterne has only one fan then that is me.
If Laurence Sterne has no fans, then that means I am no longer on earth.
If the world is against Laurence Sterne, then I am against the world.
Excellent Audio book recording by Naxos. Excellent narrator.
It's a comedy for people who, in 2024, still find this to be genuinely funny probably have a bad sense of humor.
That said, it's wildly inventive, frequently amusing, curiously unfinished (?), and at times largely indecipherable.
That said, it's wildly inventive, frequently amusing, curiously unfinished (?), and at times largely indecipherable.
challenging
dark
funny
I found this book to not be very polite! I think a book about life in Britain should be more respectful.
Since my name in part derives from this book (in the book, our hero is christened Tristram because the maid couldn't remember the name Trismegistus as she ran from one room to the next), I of course had to read it. It's quite a tome and from a different time, but still completely odd and hilarious. If you can really commit, it's worth reading.
terribilmente pesante, manca di storia e se anche fu innovazione stilistica ai suoi tempi, attualmente è una grossa rottura
“And therefore I beg, Madam, when you come here, that you read on as fast as you can, and never stop to make any inquiry about it[…]”
“But this is neither here nor there — why do I mention it? — Ask my pen, — it governs me, — I govern not it.”
A true work of art. The brilliant musings of a genius who is incapable of being serious for a single moment. Digressions upon digressions, visual representations of events, promised chapters that never arrive and so much more. This is so free spirited and joyously silly that it feels 200 years ahead of its contemporaries at all times. The book is submerged in crafty portmanteaus and double entendres, homages to Cervantes, Rabelais and Swift, and veers off in a 40 page “translation” of a made up German folk tale about noses. The book is also exceptionally bawdy, almost every footnote here saying “Sterne is being bawdy here”. His clever misdirections and complex arrivals at simple cock and fart jokes are hilarious.
It’s hard to fault Sterne here. Ofc it’s a little dated, it’s written by a guy in the 1760s, but it has a warmth and good hearted nature to its silliness that is unparalleled.
‘The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman’ is hard work. Sterne uses a lot of thoughts and arguments and direct text of contemporaries and legendary thinkers in almost every relevant field of knowledge in his time (mostly to make fun of them), but if you can get past the overwhelmingly encyclopaedic nature of his jests, you’ll find yourself smiling throughout this work. Sterne is mostly just trying to have a little joke with you, trying to tease you a bit while he still had time on this earth, and he’s possibly achieved this in the most unique way of all time.
“But this is neither here nor there — why do I mention it? — Ask my pen, — it governs me, — I govern not it.”
A true work of art. The brilliant musings of a genius who is incapable of being serious for a single moment. Digressions upon digressions, visual representations of events, promised chapters that never arrive and so much more. This is so free spirited and joyously silly that it feels 200 years ahead of its contemporaries at all times. The book is submerged in crafty portmanteaus and double entendres, homages to Cervantes, Rabelais and Swift, and veers off in a 40 page “translation” of a made up German folk tale about noses. The book is also exceptionally bawdy, almost every footnote here saying “Sterne is being bawdy here”. His clever misdirections and complex arrivals at simple cock and fart jokes are hilarious.
It’s hard to fault Sterne here. Ofc it’s a little dated, it’s written by a guy in the 1760s, but it has a warmth and good hearted nature to its silliness that is unparalleled.
‘The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman’ is hard work. Sterne uses a lot of thoughts and arguments and direct text of contemporaries and legendary thinkers in almost every relevant field of knowledge in his time (mostly to make fun of them), but if you can get past the overwhelmingly encyclopaedic nature of his jests, you’ll find yourself smiling throughout this work. Sterne is mostly just trying to have a little joke with you, trying to tease you a bit while he still had time on this earth, and he’s possibly achieved this in the most unique way of all time.