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    <body><![CDATA[On July 4th, while hunting though boxes for a particular book, I rediscovered a whole series of volumes devoted to John Barth and have begun the process of re-reading them all -- starting from the beginning.<br/><br/>&quot;The Floating Opera&quot; is, on a second read, better than I remember it be...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2829479">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[No thanks.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[i was tempted to give this one 4 stars, but i think i tend to go crazy over-rating books so i'm trying to keep that under control. anyway, this was the final novel for my lawyers in fiction seminar. it wasn't the best book i've ever read, but i actually really enjoyed it. very fast reading. it cover...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/36758175">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was a throw-it-across-the-room book for me.  I associated the lecherous, self-satisfied, morally relativistic narrator with the 60s and Heinlein, in particular, but I guess I'll have to backdate that style to the mid-50s, now.  Yeech.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[My friend really hyped up this book for me and so I had somewhat high expectations for it.  I had trouble getting into this book at first and was quickly becoming disappointed with a book that I only marginally enjoyed.  There was a point in the book though where I quickly began to really like the n...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8366424">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[a very unique main character.  best book i'd never heard of that i received as a gift.  thanks laura.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[My copy is an even older paperback than the one pictured (which was clearly bought at a library sale or something--check it out: it has a price scrawled on the front cover) and contains the &quot;revised&quot; ending, which has since been replaced with the original, Barth-intended ending. I'll be of...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/30272956">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Todd Andrews, a flawed narrator, narrates the events of a day in 1937 when he changed his mind.  Very little happens in the town in which he lives (the big event that is happening on the day he is recalling in his narrative is the arrival of the Floating Opera, a riverboat that has entertainment rev...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/17513030">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Floating Opera by John Barth (1979)]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[read end of the road first]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read The Floating Opera as part of the two-volume collection with The End of the Road, and I only discovered later that the version I read differed from the one originally published. The later version restored a darker ending that seemed more appropriate to the black humor of the story. It also ma...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/26462582">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Well, I really liked this book, it wasn't like any other book I've read. The way the author thinks about life, people and different things was amazing. I wish I could live like that, He lives as if he could die today, it's not a very easy thing to do, his philosophy of life is so different with the ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/23832507">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Reads rather like a Vonnegut novel if Vonnegut was amoral.  Still a good read, though.  Contains many of my own responses to Camus' view of absurdism and suicide.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Just read Barth. I can't explain why, but it is worth it.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[i liked this more than the longer, later meta-fests]]></body>
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