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Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up To Me (Paperback)

de Richard Farina (Author) "Young Gnossos Pappadopoulis, furry Pooh Bear, keeper of the flame, voyaged back from the asphalt seas of the great wasted land: oh highways U.S. 40..." En savoir plus
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This is the ultimate novel of college life during the first hallucinatory flowering of what has famously come to be known as The Sixties. Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me follows haunted ur-hippy Gnossos Pappadopoulis upon return to his old university town that's just tilting into a new era, and Gnossos' involvement in a swirl of sixties-style drug taking and the search for love and the meaning of it all. It is a hilarious and haunting book.


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Farina evokes the Sixties as precisely, wittily, and poignantly as F. Scott Fitzgerald captured the Jazz Age. The hero, Gnossus Pappadopoulis, weaves his way through the psychedelic landscape, encountering - among other things - mescaline, women, art, gluttony, falsehood, science, prayer, and, occasionally, truth.
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Young Gnossos Pappadopoulis, furry Pooh Bear, keeper of the flame, voyaged back from the asphalt seas of the great wasted land: oh highways U.S. 40 and unyielding 66, I am home to the glacier-gnawed gorges, the fingers of lakes, the golden girls of Westchester and Shaker Heights. Lire la première page
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1.0étoiles sur 5 Inconceivably overrated, Janv. 25 2004
I hate to be blunt, but if you think this is a masterpiece, you need to be introduced to some masterpieces. James Joyce's ULYSSES is a masterpiece. The novels of Faulkner are masterpieces. Even Jack Kerouac's ON THE ROAD is a minor masterpiece. This book is dreck.

It is poorly written, has uninteresting characters, and doesn't tell a story of any real significance. It all comes across as a bad imitation of Burroughs and Kerouac.

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1.0étoiles sur 5 I find all the high reviews incomprehensible, Janv. 1 2004
Par "johnmarshall64" (Anywhere but here) - Voir tous mes commentaires
What gives with all the 5 star reviews? Many of the reviewers look like they are good readers apart from this one, but I find the strong reviews incomprehensible. I love Dylan, the Beats, Joyce, Henry Miller, Lawrence Durrell, and a host of avant-garde and Bohemian writers, so I feel I have some cred on this kind of book. But I cannot find much of value in this particular book. I thought it was primarily boring and tedious, and couldn't find any of the humor others here write about. To me it came across as a piece of self-indulgent writing by an inexperienced author.

I'm quite sad that Farina died so young, and I wish he had lived long enough to develop his writing (and music), but I have to say that based on this, I can't find much to admire. I find him to be weak as a prose stylist and dreadful at characterization.

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5.0étoiles sur 5 One of the best books of the 20th century, Aoû 9 2002
Par Matthew T. Harrison (Chicago, IL USA) - Voir tous mes commentaires
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What can i say, the only people with anything bad to say about it are right wing nutjobs or fools who actually believe Joyce's Ulysses has a message.
This hilarious novel is about a campus legend, a legit student leader, who is used by politcal opportunists to gain power. All in all, a brilliant forshadowing of the later 60's student movement.
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5.0étoiles sur 5 Shows what might have been
Unrefined at times as it is, for a first novel this is far better than anything I could ever do. Say what you want about Farina, but this novel swaggers with the confidence that... Read more
Publié le Jui 9 2002 par Michael Battaglia

2.0étoiles sur 5 A severe disappointment - here are the reasons why
I was really was expecting to like this novel. I am a huge fan of Kerouac, John Clellon Holmes, Burroughs, Pynchon, and a slew of other similar and related writers, so I... Read more
Publié le Mars 15 2002 par Robert Moore

2.0étoiles sur 5 Looks Like Bad Writing To Me
I found this a badly written, sophmoric book, unrealistically hyped by the publisher's marketing department. Read more
Publié le Fév 21 2002

5.0étoiles sur 5 Immunity
While it contains innumerable wonderful scenes, this novel may go down in history as having literature's most vivid and hilarious episode centering on stool. Read more
Publié le Janv. 26 2002 par Edward A. Olson

5.0étoiles sur 5 amazing
Now im probably the only 16 year old that has read this book but its absolutley amazing and the way he wrote is breath taking a must read for anyone with an imagination
Publié le Juil 21 2001 par Hadley

5.0étoiles sur 5 Been Around So Long It's A Part Of Me
I read this book in one sitting the day that it hit the bookstores. Being a fan of Farina's music, I had anxiously awaited its publication, The first edition, which I have read... Read more
Publié le Juil 20 2001 par Charles Scott Payne

1.0étoiles sur 5 SORRY FOLKS, IT'S TRASH TO ME
I'm so sorry to disagree with many of these reviews. If in fact they indeed see life through the eyes of the degenerate protagonist the world is a lot worse, and my fellow humans... Read more
Publié le Oct. 9 2000 par N. Murphy

5.0étoiles sur 5 Should be required reading for all Ivy Leaguers
I read this book more than a year before I found myself attending grad school at Yale - and am I ever glad I did! Read more
Publié le Aoû 3 2000 par David A. Bede

5.0étoiles sur 5 Farina's Timeless Classic: A Reflection in a Crystal Dream
Richard Farina was a consummate songerwriter, poet and hopeful novelist, until his first and only novel burst onto the scene. Read more
Publié le Mai 26 2000 par Barron Laycock

5.0étoiles sur 5 An Accidental Act of Brilliance
Over several years now, this novel has remained one of my favorite books. Richard Farina is, of course, better known as part of the folk music duo he shared with his wife, Mimi... Read more
Publié le Mars 23 2000 par hannah1350n

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