Finally got these beauties in my collection
❤️🧡🖤 #bookhaul #homelibrary
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The Recognitions | 
Finally got these beauties in my collection
❤️🧡🖤 #bookhaul #homelibrary
2/4 This describes me. 😂👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 #LitsyHumor
pickOne of the most tremendous books ever written. I read it over a couple weeks sitting in a turret for a training exercise. Gaddis‘s complete mastery of prose in multiple languages, and themes running as far back as Mithraism in the search for authenticity make it an impressive read. He captures the lives of everyone contained in the book in beautiful detail depicting their various attempts at recognizing authenticity in each other. 10/10.
Birthday of William Gaddis (1922-1998) 956 pages , he worked on it 7 years, & most of the reviews were negative .JR is published, wins National Book Award.Now ,The Recognitions is on the Time list of 100 Best Books 1923 -2005.It sits like a brick, unread.Gaddis influenced Pynchon,DeLillo,& David Foster Wallace.A friend of mine wrote his Masters thesis on it , almost lost his mind. Will 2018 be the year I read it?Any Littens out there read it?
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