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    <body><![CDATA[Giles Goat Boy, as with most of Barth's writing, cannot be summated by anything short of a novel in itself. It is a farce on heroic tales, riddled with metaphors and allusions as thick as the diction therein, with enough mass to leave a reader spending hours picking apart each sentence. This is not ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1115460">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Ack. Aghh. Though winning a fair measure of benefit-of-the-doubt on sheer absurdity, <em>Giles Goat-Boy</em> seems ultimately to have been a rather pointless shaggy-goat story: a seeming philosophic survey-course that, after oscillating between improbable extreme positions, leaves the reader right back at th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/20815628">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[what.  the.  fuck.<br/><br/>normally i don't get pissy about books i don't completely understand.  but seriously.  this is too much.  plus it was way way way way too long.  and too much gratuitous sex/weird words used to describe gratuitous sex (which i don't normally mind either, but this was so ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/12987876">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Dude...you think with all the raping in this book you wouldnt need a dictionary to look up every 5th word but alas it aint so.  so besides learning a shit-ton of new words, this book is kind of a play off of the world slightly futuristic slightly medieval except countries are universities and Giles ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/16235612">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I read Giles Goat Boy in about 2000. I was 37 and I'd spent a lot of my life reading books. So you can imagine how infrequently I had the thought &quot;this is the strangest book I've ever read&quot;. That's what came into my head several times during GGB.<br/><br/>It's also a masterpiece. An exte...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41868376">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[&quot;Self-knowledge is always bad news.&quot; Ain't that the truth- one of the most useful quotes I've read all year. Otherwise, the allegorical set-up of this book is at first entertaining, then onerous, and finally obstructive. I'm still reading it, but I expect I will lose interest for once and ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/10919705">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I read about 3/4 of this about 10 years ago, but was left a bit cold by what struck me as, essentially, a one-note conceit (however thoroughly sounded). <br/><br/>Now, though, I work in an academic setting and am a bit more familiar with the politics, so I'm checking back to see if it's any more rew...]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[An exercise in literary onanism.<br/><br/>Just like this site.]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[Giles Goat Boy]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[Barth is a revoltingly stupid author.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[One minute you want to burn this book and the next you think it is genius.  I don't recommend it to anyone.  This is a mythological comedy chock-full of rape and hubris.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[The most fun I have ever had reading a book. (do you see that? that's a period)]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Giles Goat Boy (The Anchor Literary Library) by John Barth (1987)]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[Giles Goat Boy]]>
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  <read_at>Mon Dec 15 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[<br/>I tried, I really did. So much potential but the book is ultimately just too long and driving home a very heavy-handed point OVER and OVER again. And this barely half-way into the book. I thought about skipping to the last chapter, but worried I'd be spending precious reading time on something...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/35209553">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[Giles Goat Boy]]>
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  <read_at>Tue Nov 01 00:00:00 -0800 2005</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I wanted to like this more than I did, since the premise (bizarro sex-romp &quot;hero's journey&quot;/Cold War allegory via arms race between two college campuses) is so clever. The first hundred pages are great and hilarious, but later on it gets a little tiresome. Worth checking out though if you ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4265731">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[Giles Goat Boy]]>
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  <read_at>Sat Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Didn't make it through this one.  I pretty much got the basic idea about 150 pages in.  Interesting and inventive idea, but hamfisted and vaguely misogynistic.  This novel reminds me why, when looking for a &quot;literary read,&quot; I usually turn to Hardy or Austen rather than anything written pos...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/14406514">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Back when I was in college, John Barth was sort of the Jonathan Franzen of his day. A literary lion for the 60s. All I remember of this fat tome was that Giles was a goat and a boy, in fact.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Kind of collapses into incoherence in the second half, and Barth's sexual/racial politics remain HIGHLY dubious, but still a good time.  Certainly better than The Sot-Weed Factor.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Though this book has its flaws and it is definitely a difficult read,but I have to say that this is one of my favorite books of all time.]]></body>
    
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