Humboldt''s Gift
Registered by top-tappser of Lake Tapps, Washington USA on 7/15/2008
This Book is Currently in the Wild!
2 journalers for this copy...
From my mom.
Journal Entry 2 by top-tappser at Air Mail Center 166th/Air Cargo Rd. in Seattle, Washington USA on Saturday, July 19, 2008
Released 15 yrs ago (7/19/2008 UTC) at Air Mail Center 166th/Air Cargo Rd. in Seattle, Washington USA
WILD RELEASE NOTES:
WILD RELEASE NOTES:
Employee book exchange
Employee book exchange
Claimed this back off the book exchange as there is a bookbox I am expecting and the person following me has it on their wishlist.
Journal Entry 4 by top-tappser at Wishlist Bookbox, A Bookbox -- Controlled Releases on Thursday, October 2, 2008
Released 15 yrs ago (10/2/2008 UTC) at Wishlist Bookbox, A Bookbox -- Controlled Releases
CONTROLLED RELEASE NOTES:
CONTROLLED RELEASE NOTES:
Not on any list except the one of the person following me. Since there was room I put it in as a bonus.
Not on any list except the one of the person following me. Since there was room I put it in as a bonus.
This came home in my Wish List Bookbox. I have never read Bellow, which I suspect is a hole in my reading background and I look forward to this.
Just wanted to let you know this is a 1001 library book. Bluestocking had it on her wishlist and didn't keep it. I don't know why!
This was a slog. Interesting characters and plot. Some good humor. But the main character, Charles Citrine goes on and on--whether in introspection or conversation. About art and sanity and "selling out" and boredom and fame and death, death, death! Sometimes in the middle of paragraphs and paragraphs there is a pithy revelation. Charley is a neurotic writer in mid-life crisis. I thought at one point that Bellow went overboard on the deep-thoughts as a way to poke fun at the Pulitzer since both Charley and his friend, Humboldt have won Pulitzers. And then irony of ironies Bellow gets one for this book. But reading a little about his works this is evidently his style.
WILD RELEASE NOTES:
In the west entrance after going through both doors to the immediate right is an IVV/AVA box for registering for Volkswalks. The book is in the top.
In the west entrance after going through both doors to the immediate right is an IVV/AVA box for registering for Volkswalks. The book is in the top.