Barth and The Sot-Weed Factor

Thought's on TSWF? How does it compare to the rest of his work? Is Giles Goat Boy as good, better, worse?

And am I a pleb/pseud for TSWF being my favourite book?

bump for John Borth

if it's your favorite book why are you asking how it compares to his other work?

Why is it your fave user?

Virtuosity of language, the ambitious (to put it lightly) interweaving off the characters and events, how well rounded/developed the protagonist is character-wise, and how funny the novel is.

Have you read it?

I'm 300 pages into this thing and I'm just exhausted. Why is everyone he meets fucking Burlingame?
Oh guess what? Betrand fucked up again and Eben almost tripped and landed in a girl.

Should I continue?

Barth was pretty much shit until he wrote Chimera, and then he was shit again. But I haven't read Giles Goat Boy or Floating Opera so I can't say for sure.

Floating Opera/End of the road was a fun read.

i hated his first two books loved sotweed enjoyed chimera and hated (could not finish) giles goat boy

I thought Veeky Forums would like this guy. His books are published through Dalkey Archive and I believe they are all pomo in the vein of Gaddis or Gass.

What's this guys problem?