I am currently reading the 42nd Parallel by John Dos Passos. Or trying to read anyways… This book is kind of boring, well at least the part about the glorification of the working man and the imminent uprising of the worker constantly on the author’s mind. I wouldn’t suggest reading this experiment of a book. I would go with something a bit more straightforward, like, In Dubious Battle by Steinbeck.
Don’t misinform yourself by my comments, Dos Passos knows how to tell a story, and tell it well. It is just that he chooses to throw in Stream of Consciousness and stuff like that, that bores the crap out of me while I am reading it, makes me want to buy Supermarket paperbacks, or write a detective story or something.
Anyways I give this book a d Minus on my Richter Scale. Read at your own peril and get those Christmas gifts before it’s too late. Bye-ya!
Tags: 20th Century American Literature, 20th Century Novels, John Dos Passos, Modernism, The Richter Scale
