One Big Damn Puzzler (P.S.)
by John Harding | Literature & Fiction | This book has not been rated.
ISBN: 9780061132186 Global Overview for this book
ISBN: 9780061132186 Global Overview for this book
Registered by princess-peapod of San Luis Obispo, California USA on 11/17/2008
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Journal Entry 1 by princess-peapod from San Luis Obispo, California USA on Monday, November 17, 2008
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"No two persons ever read the same book."
Edmund Wilson, critic
William Hardt, an American human rights lawyer with acute obsessive-compulsive disorder, travels to a South Pacific island where the inhabitants have lost limbs to land mines left behind by American troops. There he meets the wise islander Managua, who loves Shakespeare and is struggling to translate Hamlet into pidgin English (Hamlet's most famous line translates to "Is be or is be not, is be one big damn puzzler"). As Hardt proceeds to document his case for the U.S. to make reparations to the natives, he is drawn into many of the customs of the tropical paradise, including communing with the dead after smoking plant leaves. Harding easily moves from comic one-liners to poignant scenes of the tragic downside of do-gooders and their best intentions. He also incorporates numerous witty subplots echoing Shakespeare's favorite themes and motifs, with very funny forays into cross-dressing and unrequited love. If he is sometimes too shameless in his quest to get laughs--he has a wide and deep scatological streak--he still manages to pull off one big damn fine book.
"Second hand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come together in vast flocks of variegated feather, and have a charm which the domesticated volumes of the library lack." --Virginia Woolf
~Walter Sickers
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"No two persons ever read the same book."
Edmund Wilson, critic
William Hardt, an American human rights lawyer with acute obsessive-compulsive disorder, travels to a South Pacific island where the inhabitants have lost limbs to land mines left behind by American troops. There he meets the wise islander Managua, who loves Shakespeare and is struggling to translate Hamlet into pidgin English (Hamlet's most famous line translates to "Is be or is be not, is be one big damn puzzler"). As Hardt proceeds to document his case for the U.S. to make reparations to the natives, he is drawn into many of the customs of the tropical paradise, including communing with the dead after smoking plant leaves. Harding easily moves from comic one-liners to poignant scenes of the tragic downside of do-gooders and their best intentions. He also incorporates numerous witty subplots echoing Shakespeare's favorite themes and motifs, with very funny forays into cross-dressing and unrequited love. If he is sometimes too shameless in his quest to get laughs--he has a wide and deep scatological streak--he still manages to pull off one big damn fine book.
"Second hand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come together in vast flocks of variegated feather, and have a charm which the domesticated volumes of the library lack." --Virginia Woolf
Journal Entry 2 by princess-peapod at San Luis Obispo, California USA on Saturday, November 11, 2017
If you found this book while in the area of San Luis Obispo, CA. feel free to come by and check out Joe Mommas which houses our bookshelf! We also hold our local meetups on the first Tuesday of each month at 5pm there, please come join the fun! The books on the shelf are free to for you to read, enjoy and pass along to another!
Sending off to a fellow bookcrosser in a effort to clean shelves & send books into the world!!!
"A book is a mysterious object, I said, and once it floats out into the world, anything can happen. All kinds of mischief can be caused, and there's not a damned thing you can do about it. For better or worse, it's completely out of your control."
Paul Auster
Sending off to a fellow bookcrosser in a effort to clean shelves & send books into the world!!!
"A book is a mysterious object, I said, and once it floats out into the world, anything can happen. All kinds of mischief can be caused, and there's not a damned thing you can do about it. For better or worse, it's completely out of your control."
Paul Auster
