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The Sot-Weed Factor

De: John Barth
Narrado por: Kevin Pariseau
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Considered by critics to be Barth's most distinguished novel, The Sot-Weed Factor has acquired the status of a modern classic. Set in the late 1600s, it recounts the chaotic odyssey of the hapless, ungainly Ebeneezer Cooke. Cooke is sent to the New World to oversee his father's tobacco business and to record the struggles of the Maryland colony in an epic poem. On his mission, he is captured by pirates and Indians; loses his father's estate to roguish impostors; falls in love with a former prostitute; is nearly robbed of his virginity, which he is (almost) determined to protect; and meets a gallery of treacherous characters who continually switch identities.

The Sot-Weed Factor is a hilarious, bawdy tribute to all the most insidious human vices with lasting relevance for listeners of all times.

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I didn't really read the description of this book before I downloaded it. I missed the word parody. Or farce. Or spoof. I saw it was historical fiction and it was a long book. And it was all of those - parody, history and long. If it had not been for the narrator, Pariseau, I would have given up and added it to the short pile of 2 other books in my lifetime that I simply could not complete reading. But Pariseau made it worth the time - what a phenomenal range that man has!! The story itself is convoluted and has so many short stories within its bounds that I wonder if the book's whole purpose wasn't to supply a connect the dots effect to all those stories. Colorful characters, all. The main character, an English poet, is a fool in the realm of life, but he does get under your skin. I found myself rhyming a lot during the time I was listening to this book! But would I recommend the book -
nay, I say.

If you're a lit major, you'll love it

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"Life is a shameless playwright," the protagonist Ebenezer Cooke is fond of saying in reference to the bewildering array of miraculous coincidences and mistaken identities that hold the plot of The Sot-Weed Factor together. But the winking irony in this – that it is in fact not life at all, but John Barth who is the "shameless" creator here – is perhaps not enough to excuse the novel's over-reliance on such contrivances. And though, in a shorter work, the fact that these devices are intended to parody the 18th century picaresque novel may make them more amusing than infuriating, in a work of such staggering proportions they simply become tedious. The joke, in short, gets old.

Fans of Sterne or Fielding may find Barth's pastiche of such writers compelling, but I came to this book as a fan of postmodern fiction, and came away disappointed. The narrative is almost relentlessly linear and chronological, always follows Ebenezer, and relies on characters telling stories to fill in past events. No postmodern puzzle-box fragmentation here. And yet it doesn't possess the greatest strengths of a traditional narrative, either: it fails to create any really sympathetic characters, or to evoke an emotional response in the reader – at least not this reader. (It is fun, for a while, to watch the buffoonish protagonist get himself into trouble, but even this pleasure wanes in a 40+ hour work.)

Nevertheless, this version of the book does possess one great merit, without which I probably wouldn't have finished it (though I love long novels). That is, the voice of Kevin Pariseau, who does a fantastic job giving unique voices and appropriate accents to an expansive cast of characters.

Perhaps less Postmodern than merely Contrived

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Erudite, witty, literary, and long. But most definitely worth the time if these words don't scare you away.

Weighty but worthy read

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While it starts a little slow, and has a tendency to run on a bit (rather like Don Quixote), there is more than enough plot and humor to make the whole thing undeniably worthwhile.

Witty and surprising.

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Very entertaining high-brow adventure yarn. Imagine a mash-up of Barry Lyndon, Black Adder, The 40 Year-old Virgin, and Pirates of the Caribbean, delivered in erudite 17th Century English by audiobook narrator Kevin Pariseau.

Entertaining high-brow adventure yarn

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The story line was decent but there was way too much philosophizing or attempts at clever language use by the author. I found myself fast forwarding again and again to get past these parts.

too much blathering

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I was first exposed to The Sot Weed Factor in my first year English Lit class at university in 1972. I read this book at least once a year for many years until I lost my copy and found it difficult to find another. I have be hoping that it would be made as an audiobook, and now my hopes I come true.

Although the story can be a bit convoluted at times, it is always entertaining, usually funny and sometimes a bit ribald. Barth has managed to capture the life of the early 1600's in both England and the Americas, making it real to the reader on every level.

I just now downloaded it, and have not yet listened to it, but the story itself is incredible and I am sure the narrator will do it justice.

One of my Favorite Titles

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This book is hilarious, exciting, and offers an engaging mix of satire and earnestness. It functions on multiple levels: as a parody of historical novels, as a fantastically plotted historical novel in its own right, and as a treatise on the permeability of identity. One would think that, at 41 hours in length, a listener might get bored, but the narrative is enveloping at nearly every moment. Actually a fast listen despite it's length. Narrator is also excellent.

Pretty freaking entertaining.

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Though a lengthy work, John Barth's Sot-Weed Factor flows apace as the protagonist bumbles his way through myriad adventures in the late 1600's of England and America. Barth has a great turn of phrase, his wit magnified through his idealistic, hapless and often rather daft Ebinezer Cooke.

I am reminded of Voltaire's Candide, and would extend an extra recommendation to anyone who has appreciation for that work. The wit is two-fold in that much is humourous on the face of situation and yet the underbelly of issues related to colonialism, class structure, the struggle between Catholicism and Protestantism, as well as suffrage, to name a few, are raised by an ever changing cast of characters surrounding our main man Ebenezer. To boot there are a great many passages that toy and explore the notion of identity, and we witness a few switcheroos that play well in the adventure.

I was not surprised, though very pleased, to see that Kevin Pariseau is the narrator of choice for all of Barth's full length books, as he brings true character with his narration. Pariseau is a perfect match for this tale, and his phrasing, tone and pacing are pitch-perfect. He has done great justice to the spirit of the work and really has made it an audio book that engages and paints vivid scenarios in the mind.

An adventure full of bawdy humour, wit and wonder

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this book is kind of a conundrum in a way that will speak to some and turn off others.

if you're a hardcore postmodernist who believes that a thorough exploration of the symbolic, esoteric, and philosophic are necessary for a great work (as I thought I was), this book may appear minor league soft-ball to your taste, never quite grasping the actual possibilities it could reach (and, if you want to get down to it, did reach in Pynchon's Mason & Dixon if you want a period piece of Colonial era America doused with heavy post modern ideas)
if you're a fan of English manners comedies of the time, this book will appear fairly vulgar and imprecise, not reaching the same subtlety of social satire as a Tom Jones, Foundling or Vanity Fair.

BUT, if you're looking for a fun, tonally light, romp through early colonial America and England, lovable characters and a story that kind of matches the innocently ambitious protagonists view of the world, this is a fantastic read. it reminds me a lot of a 1700s version of the sadly shortlived Lodge 49, with a quest to discover yourself in a world of possibilities. I'd recommend it to everyone with the knowledge some will probably find it lacking in aspects they like, simply because it has all the right elements for some who will love it.

maybe the real factor is the friends we made

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