Jrobertus's review
End of the Road
by John Barth
Jrobertus's review
End of the Road by John Barth
Jrobertus's review
rating:
When I was a young man in the 70s, John Barth was all the rage and I read a couple of his books, and put down some others. Perhaps I was just too busy with grad school to give him the attention others felt he deserved. I enjoyed End of the Road, and it does contain one of my favorite lines from literature. (The protagonist college English teacher is parsing sentences on the board while the spring leaves and buds are ripening and the co-eds sem to also be ripening and thinks to himself: I'd like to throw down my chalk and shout "to hell with this men, let's take 'em). I read it a long time ago, however, and I don't recall much of the book or even my emotional response to it.
