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| AUTHOR: | Matthew Roberson, Ronald 98.6 Sukenick |
| CATEGORY: | Book |
| MANUFACTURER: | Fiction Collective Two |
| ISBN: | 1573661023 |
| TYPE: | American First Novelists, Bildungsromans, Fiction, Fiction - General, General, Graduate students, Group homes, Internet |
| MEDIA: | Paperback |
| # OF MEDIA: | 1 |
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Customer Reviews of 1998.6
A Challenging Read This book takes what most college students must believe is the most boring subject on earth--the lives of graduate students--and turns it into a brilliant and challenging satire. The novel forces the reader to deal with ever-shifting sands, even the names of characters are not consistent. Ultimately, this is a valuable experimental novel that sets a new standard for fiction.
Lame Navel-Gazing Self-Pity
This book is an homage to Sukenick's 98.6, but not in anything like the same sense that /Ulysses/ is an homage to /The Odyssey/. No. It lifts the form, structure, and not only the style but also the actual wording of sentences from 98.6. While I appreciate that this is meant to be a minimalist exploration of the minute differance, in this case that effort has not been pulled off successfully. I like Deleuze & Guattari, whom Roberson refers to (and quotes!) at length. I also at least didn't /dislike/ 98.6, but Roberson's book comes off as nothing but a depressive, purely mental exercise in the grad-student pastime of poaching old papers to flesh out "new" material. I think this becaues it takes Deleuze & Guattari's immanentist philosophy and Suckenik's immanentist writing and objectivizes them in ways that betray the spirit of this immanentism. There are no surficial and Stevens-esque flights of anti-rhetoric here, only an endless dithering about whether they would be worth having if the author managed to pull them off. And then Roberson's geeky looking photo on the back doesn't help. Save yourself the trouble of even so much as starting this novel.
Matt Roberson is awesome, people...
I have the man as a teacher at CMU. He is so down-to-earth and friendly. When we are in his class, it is like we are just friends hanging out. Yet, he is an excellent and informative teacher, he really expands your writing abilities. As for the book, since I really know nothing about Sukenick, I didn't get much out of it, but it seemed to be pretty well-written. Anyway, thanks for being such a great teacher, Matt. You are awesome! Thanks for reading, people-