matthew's review
How to Read and Why by Harold Bloom
matthew's review
bookshelves: couldnt-get-through, to-read
recommended for: nonagenarian bibliophiles and people who think shakespeare is the SHIT
status: Read in October, 2007
bookshelves: couldnt-get-through, to-read
recommended for: nonagenarian bibliophiles and people who think shakespeare is the SHIT
status: Read in October, 2007
i love harold bloom. i just read all his stuff. i had to stop reading this one, though, because, essentially, you have to've read everything that bloom's read to appreciate it, and i'm not quite yet that old. it really should be entitled "how to reread and why", 'cause the book is one ginormous spoiler. he really really really loves shakespeare, too, and he doesn't let ye forget it! i'll come back to it in some years. he's still a great writer.
If you want to know how to read, you can't very well read this book, can you???I hope it comes on tape!
don't be glib.
Hi Matt,I read in your review that Harold Bloom "loves Gene Wolfe". As it happens, I have been Googling for Harold Bloom's opinion of Wolfe, and your's is the only statement that I can find. I'm just wondering where you got that tidbit of information?
Thanks,
Jason Voegele
(a huge Gene Wolfe fan)
i believe you have caught me in a gaffe, sir (and my name is matthew, if you please): i could have sworn that bloom included wolfe in his list of contemporary authors, in "the western canon", but i can't find the citation, now... i may've been confusing him with john crowley. it's possible i'm just not looking hard enough (i'm a bit distracted, just now)... hm. the two names (bloom and wolfe, though crowley, also) do come up, not infrequently, in a joint google search. let me know if you find anything, and thanks for the heads-up.
