Cain: Book Question.

[LMNO]

Would you happen to have a pdf of Tristram Shandy?

Just wondering.

[Cramulus]

is this it?

http://www.gasl.org/refbib/Sterne__Shandy_Journey.pdf

[LMNO]

Looks like it.

Thanks!

Just heard about it on NPR - something about a comedy whose theme is that life is too complicated to be contained in a normal story. A piece of postmodernism, before there was even modernism - it was written in 1760.

[e]

Tristram Shandy is awesome.  Somebody made a movie out of it in recent years, BTW.   

The book was adapted on film in 2006 as A Cock and Bull Story, directed by Michael Winterbottom, written by Frank Cottrell Boyce (credited as Martin Hardy, in a complicated metafictional twist), and starring Steve Coogan, Rob Brydon, Keeley Hawes, Kelly Macdonald, Naomie Harris, and Gillian Anderson. The movie plays with metatextual levels, being a movie pretending to be a documentary about a movie adaptation of the book, with various actors playing fictionalized versions of themselves.

I'm pretty certain it's also on gutenberg.org (your one-stop shop for old books) http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/1079

You may also enjoy "The Female Quixote", which is a silly little novel:

http://site.girlebooks.com/xs.php?page=ebooks_detail&siteid=223&lang=en&table=user_girlebooks&idx=0&iddetail=281  (for download in PDF, TXT, and LIT)

[Cain]

I've heard of it, but actually have not read it so far.

Of course, I have over 7000 books on my laptop currently, so this should not be too surprising.  I have reading material for the next decade.

[e]

Packrat syndrome is a dangerous thing.  Which I also have.

[Cramulus]

I've heard of it, but actually have not read it so far.

Of course, I have over 7000 books on my laptop currently, so this should not be too surprising.  I have reading material for the next decade.

only a decade??

if you read 1.9 books per day it would last a decade

at the rate that I finish books, I'd be reading that collection until 2100, easy. 

[Cain]

I'm a quick reader.

I've also read about 6-800 of those.

[Dido]

Just heard about it on NPR - something about a comedy whose theme is that life is too complicated to be contained in a normal story. A piece of postmodernism, before there was even modernism - it was written in 1760.

sounds like the comments that made me read it. Reading it was one of the few things in my life that made me wonder if I shouldn't repent something or, more likely, everything.

[Cain]

If I recall right, the story follows a day in the life of the central character, but documents absolutely everything happening around him, in maddening detail.

Right?

[Dido]

If I recall right, the story follows a day in the life of the central character, but documents absolutely everything happening around him, in maddening detail.

Right?

No.

[Cain]

Oops.  Must've been another book then.

[e]

If I recall right, the story follows a day in the life of the central character, but documents absolutely everything happening around him, in maddening detail.

Right?

Sounds like something out of Borges.

[Cain]

If I recall right, the story follows a day in the life of the central character, but documents absolutely everything happening around him, in maddening detail.

Right?

Sounds like something out of Borges.

It does, and maybe it is, but I'm sure a book along that line was written much earlier.

[LMNO]

Ulysses, perhaps?