https://readingtheend.com/2008/06/16/giles-goat-boy-john-barth/ before I read the middle Sat, 20 Mar 2010 11:05:10 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.2 https://readingtheend.com/2008/06/16/giles-goat-boy-john-barth/#comment-14792 Sat, 20 Mar 2010 11:05:10 +0000 http://readingtheend.com/?p=86#comment-14792 […] March 20, 2010 by Jenny Metafiction.  That’s another challenge I should invent, if there isn’t one already, a metafiction challenge.  I always expect to love metafiction passionately, and when it lets me down, I feel hurt and betrayed.  Like the book of The Princess Bride.  Why did you be so lame, book of The Princess Bride?  Atonement.  Wicked after they left school, but particularly after, um, a certain event?  That I don’t want to say because some of you maybe haven’t read the book yet?  Slaughterhouse Five.  Giles Goat-Boy. […]

]]> https://readingtheend.com/2008/06/16/giles-goat-boy-john-barth/#comment-14791 Fri, 26 Sep 2008 22:23:21 +0000 http://readingtheend.com/?p=86#comment-14791 Hm. I saw this once and wondered what it was, but the first chapter was just so strange I never continued it. Sounds like that was a good choice.

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