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title: "J R"
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# J R

**Brand:** william gaddisjoy williams
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J R

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    “…What America’s All About”
  

*by C***I on Reviewed in the United States on September 3, 2022*

J R is one of those books that you hear a lot about how daunting of a task it is to read. I’ve read numerous reviews for it, many comparing it’s difficulty to that of Pynchon’s Gravity’s Rainbow all the way to Joyce’s Finnegans Wake (for some reason)i’m here to tell you: that’s not the case at all. This book is nowhere near that difficult to read or understand. To be honest, I gave up on both of the aforementioned difficult novels. As many of you know J R is written almost entirely in unattributed dialogue with the only context who’s talking being either the short bits of prose scattered about, or conversational context.However, once you get into the rhythmic groove of this thing it’s honestly not that difficult. The amazing thing is, even though Gaddis rarely tells you directly who’s talking, eventually you’ll know who’s talking based on character’s speech patterns and vocal tics. It’s honestly amazing how quickly you can pick up on it if you pay attention to it and read it at a speaking pace.After you get yourself over that relatively small hurdle, you’ll be treating yourself to what I now believe is one of the most brilliant, important and supremely entertaining American novels ever written.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Complex, impenetrable, baffling, compelling
  

*by J***S on Reviewed in the United States on August 16, 2018*

Took me over a year and a half to read; go into it eyes wide open about the stylistic and formal constraints of the work. Brilliantly funny, challenging, sarcastic and forward looking. The ultimate look into corporate capitalism. Truly visionary.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    A masterpiece.
  

*by M***R on Reviewed in the United States on July 20, 2018*

Granted this book is not for everyone.  It does take patience, a patience that is amply rewarded.  Mr. Gaddis must have had the best ear of anyone who ever took pen to paper - he unerringly gets the rhythm, pace, voice, etc, right to the point that one can identify this or that character through their speech patterns.  No mean feat on the author's part.  One can never accuse Gaddis of underestimating the intelligence of his readers, nor of their sense of humor.  The man is a master humorist/satirist.  And while the novel is mostly satiric in nature, there are some characters one truly feels for (Edward Bast, Amy Joubert, Jack Gibbs, and poor beset upon Dan DiCephalis).  I read his "The Recognitions" four years ago and fell in love with it.  Why?  It wasn't the plot nor any individual character, but rather the masterful way he uses (or as Whiteback would say "utilizes") the language.  There is nothing he cannot do with it, no emotion he cannot express.  When in graduate school I took a class in which Steven Moore was a fellow student.  I remember him telling Professor Charney that he'd written a book on Gaddis and that he felt the latter to be the best writer alive.  Having by now read all of Gaddis's work, I agree that he must be included in the ranks of great writers.  Each book encompasses a world, a world that is a delight to be a part of.

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