treal said:

“A strange, but satisfying book. Tristram Shandy is the ultimate 'progressive digression' book that fills its universe with fake legal documents, sermons, tales within tales, and the "ultimate curse word"( stolen from a Vatican library). The book contains not so much of a plot, but a series of non-sequitors from a fictional writer more concerned with substance over style.

Not the easiest book to read( due to Mr. Laurence playacting as a Mr. Tristram playacting as a literary memoir writer), but hilarous in a unique metafictional fashion. As much as it reflects the literary fashion of its times, "Tristram Shandy" seems all the more relevant in this strange postmodern age of hypertext, Information Overload, , and the difficulties of saying what needs to be said in a time when all that has been said has been said.

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posted Sunday, October 28 2007