false <![CDATA[Water Music ]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167543424m/24726.jpg 24726 21 T.C. Boyle's riotous first novel now in a new edition for its 25th anniversary. Twenty five years ago, T.C. Boyle published his first novel, Water Music, a funny, bawdy, extremely entertaining novel of imaginative and stylistic fancy that announced to the world Boyle's tremendous gifts as a storyteller. Set in the late eighteenth century, Water Music follows the wild adventures of Ned Rise, thief and whoremaster, and Mungo Park, a Scottish explorer, through London's seamy gutters and Scotland's scenic highlands to their grand meeting in the heart of darkest Africa. There they join forces and wend their hilarious way to the source of the Niger. "Ribald, hilarious, exotic, engrossing flight of the literary imagination." -- Los Angeles Times "Water Music does for fiction what Raiders of the Lost Ark did for film. . . . Boyle is an adept plotter, a crazed humorist, and a fierce describer. "--The Boston Globe "High comic fiction . . . Boyle is a writer of considerable talent. He pulls off his most implausible inventions with wit, a perfect sense of timing, and his considerable linguistic gifts." --The Washington Post 179188 1981 Water Music total:566|5:233|4:219|3:87|2:21|1:6| 566 2350 795 71 2 0 false false Mon Jun 08 11:28:15 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 08 11:32:21 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Thu Aug 30 07:34:04 -0700 2007 Sun Sep 02 13:37:53 -0700 2007 more...]]> 5 0 false false Mon Nov 24 18:50:44 -0800 2008 Mon Nov 24 18:53:57 -0800 2008 4 0 false false Tue May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Mon Oct 29 22:01:43 -0700 2007 Mon Oct 29 22:06:45 -0700 2007 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Tue Jun 12 08:25:21 -0700 2007 Fri Jul 20 20:44:27 -0700 2007 more...]]> 2 0 false false Sat Aug 29 12:53:31 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 29 12:54:57 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Tue Oct 13 18:49:44 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 13 18:51:04 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Thu Mar 19 12:38:39 -0700 2009 Thu Mar 19 12:40:18 -0700 2009
It's not an adolescent book, BTW.]]> 3 0 false false Tue Feb 17 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Feb 03 13:08:38 -0800 2009 Tue Feb 17 06:59:46 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Tue Nov 17 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Wed Nov 18 08:27:20 -0800 2009 Wed Nov 18 08:32:42 -0800 2009 4 0 false false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sun Jan 06 13:36:13 -0800 2008 Wed Jan 16 16:54:31 -0800 2008
"...all the while chattering away in some muddled troglodytic language that's like a barnyard flatul...more...]]> 3 0 false false Fri Jun 05 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Apr 13 04:34:14 -0700 2009 Fri Jun 05 23:15:06 -0700 2009 Finished at last!
If the Washington Post book reviewer had actually read this book, which I seriously doubt, he would have written a completely different comment. Rather than "...more...]]> 5 0 false false Tue Apr 28 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Apr 16 14:20:36 -0700 2009 Tue Apr 28 13:18:06 -0700 2009 Once 5 0 false false Mon Mar 09 08:30:22 -0700 2009 Mon Mar 09 08:31:00 -0700 2009 4 0 true false Sat Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Thu Feb 21 10:47:16 -0800 2008 Sat Mar 22 15:14:31 -0700 2008
Boyle's use of the language is phenomenal. No one can turn a phrase like him. I never know which words are mere...more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sun Feb 22 13:59:25 -0800 2009 Sun Feb 22 14:02:57 -0800 2009 4 0 false false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2002 Mon Sep 21 20:49:47 -0700 2009 Mon Sep 21 20:52:25 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Wed Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 30 12:48:45 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 30 12:51:05 -0700 2009 2 0 false false Wed Apr 05 00:00:00 -0700 2006 Fri Mar 20 06:35:22 -0700 2009 Fri Apr 10 02:14:36 -0700 2009 ...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Oct 14 07:27:21 -0700 2009 Wed Oct 14 07:29:02 -0700 2009 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=24726