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Traveling Sprinkler Deluxe: A Novel (2013)

by Nicholson Baker(Favorite Author)

3.67 of 5 Votes: 2

languge

English

genre

Humor

publisher

Blue Rider Press

review 1: A pretty darned cute scrappy kind of novel, which allows Nicholson Baker to just write about about whatever occurs to him, like cigars, the CIA, Quaker meetings, protest songs, being in love with your ex-girlfriend, drones, but mostly Debussy's 'The Sunken Cathedral' - I learned a bunch of stuff. It is brimming with a real love of music, from dance music to the bassoon, and while there is an underlying sadness and rage at life and war and loneliness, it is a happy book. This is Baker at his warmest.
review 2: I'd been wanting to read Nicholson Baker for some time, and this was my introduction to his work. On the whole, I was a bit let down. It wasn't as heady or engaging as I was hoping and as I tend to prefer. It might have helped if I had read first the prequ... moreel to this one. Paul Chowder obviously had a history I wasn't aware of... It was a pretty funny read, though, and nice to have some lite fair. I got my copy through a Goodreads giveaway and it came with a cd of the songs from the book. That was a hoot! I may give another of his a try some day, but not sure I would particularly recommend this one. Not to a new Baker reader, anyway. less

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