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Copy/paste the text below into your blog. <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12279.Molloy_Malone_Dies_The_Unnamable?utm_medium=api&amp;utm_source=blog_review" style="float: left; padding-right: 20px"><img alt="Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable (Everyman's Library)" border="0" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/photo.goodreads.com/books/1166494861m/12279.jpg" /></a> <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12279.Molloy_Malone_Dies_The_Unnamable?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review">Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/5239.Samuel_Beckett">Samuel Beckett</a><br/><br/> <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/9456468?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review"><h3>My review</h3></a> rating: 4 of 5 stars<br/>Five stars for Molloy, one of the most lovely, terrifying, and startling things I've ever read. Four for Malone Dies, which, despite having among the more beautiful prose passages ever written in the English language, suffers somewhat by its constrained surroundings. The Unnameable often comes awfully close to self-parody: bleak, rambling, incoherent, plotless minimalism for it's own sake, everything that people who hate Beckett hate about him, but it has enough moving passages to merit three stars. For the "trilogy", then, we average out to four. <br/><br/><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/list/636744?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review">View all my reviews.</a>