aldokelrast 's review for:

Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne

1.0

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The sheer agony of an 18th Century twit smelling his own farts and giggling about them for 800 interminable pages. No better example of a book that people "like" because forcing themselves to be interested in one joke in 10,000 permutations makes them feel smart. It doesn't take any great brain to understand it, though--just endurance. Tristram Shandy is a boring bloody exercise and not a novel.