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Jeez, I just checked on the pub date for this book. 2006. Opps. I didnt think it was that long ago.Let me explain the opps. It relates to the book, so its all good and relevant. Sometime in 2006 this book showed up in the store. Maybe it sold a few copies, maybe it didnt. I dont know. But even if it sold a couple inevitably after a few months the people who sign my paychecks and Random House said, Hey, we dont need to keep this book in the stores anymore, send them home. Of course I said, No. This book looks interesting. This is the sort of book that booknerds will want to read, some bookish soul will be looking through the Literary Theory section and be joyed by this book. They will buy it! They didnt. Then I thought, some bookish type will be looking through the Literature Studies section (because we changed the name of the section for reasons I cant begin to understand, although Im sure that a committee was formed and many people who make more than me sat around and thought should we change the name, and probably after quite some time it came to pass and someone on that committee probably felt like they had worked really hard for that paycheck), and they will be interested in this book. I even had the book faced out, and sometimes on a table. But still no one bought it. And I held on to it. Finally attrition and the realization that I had more important battles ahead of me to fight in the Quixotic war against the bland hegemony of corporate dictates, I let go of some of my old friends, the interesting but unselling books in some of the sort of obscure sections Im the custodian of. You people had your chance to find this book on the shelf, youve failed me and now I will have to make room for newer books. Before getting rid of all three copies of the book I decided that Id read one of those copies. The book had looked interesting to me in the past, and sometimes when I saw it Id think, I should read this. On the surface this book looks wonderful. Its a book about books that we will never be able to read. The lost books. The ones burned in infamous conflagrations like the one(s) in Alexandria, and the ones in destroyed in private by their frustrated creators and by surviving loved ones who for various reasons didnt want particular works to be seen by the public. Books that were imagined, planned and never actually written by famous authors. Books that we do have but only in half-finished copies with no idea where the author would have taken the story. Books that were manuscripts that happened to get stolen, misplaced, destroyed in natural disasters or hidden for safe keeping under the ground and now live underneath a modern German housing development. Isnt this the kind of things that nerdish fans of things love? Dont these artifacts do something for a certain type of person more than the readily available legitimate releases? Arent there certain authors who maybe I havent read all their work, but if a mysterious lost book appeared Id want to read it asap even though Im not tripping over myself to finish their oeuvre (for me, a lost Kafka story surfacing, would move right to the top of my must-read-now list, but for about fifteen years Ive been ho hum about reading Amerika). In musical terms I think that this book appeals to the same type of people who salivate at the idea of more bootleg or basement tapes of Bob Dylan appearing (even if maybe its just a recording of Dylan burping and farting the melody of Like a Rolling Stone) than a new album being released. Unfortunately the book doesnt quite live up to what I wanted or what I thought was being promised by the book. The book does do a good job of showing what the lost books from a whole slew of authors are, but there is also just too much biographical detail given about some of the authors. More lost books, less talk, please! Sometimes the chapters on an author are about the tantalizing clues about what these books would really be like, other times they are mini-bios and description of the authors work with some mention at the end that there was supposed to be another book or two that the author would have written if he or she had lived long enough. Sometimes the lost books are more just the un-realized ideas of an author, which Im not sure if actually correspond to a lost book. Can a book be lost if it were never really written? If I became a famous writer one day and someone could go through my emails where I mention ideas that Ive thought of to friends, and maybe wrote a few pages of before growing bored with the idea is that a lost book or just a shitty idea, or yet another example of laziness and a general unfocused approach to things? Or is something like Pounds Cantos a lost book because he never finished it? Could it have ever been finished? I liked the book, and found many interesting things in it, but as the scope of the book moved from the ancient world to more modern writers my attention was starting to wane. The ancient world is full of lost books, and its interesting (to me) to hear about what the great Greek playwrights had written that didnt survive, or the authors mentioned in ancient works whose entire corpus is lost to us. Maybe its because I dont know that much about some of these people that I thought this part of the book was stronger. As the book moved through the centuries the authors became more familiar to me, and generally the lost books were more often works that authors destroyed themselves after early responses were poor, or just things they never got around to writing or finishing. For every Burton or Byron who had their works destroyed there are more Dickens and Austen types who just happened to succumb to mortality before they could finish what they started. Which its interesting to point out these things, and I mean that, almost every chapter has some interesting things in it, but the book kind of turned into more a collection of little biographies, generally of writers that I already had little biographies about in my head. Except for a handful of authors and the minor English poets presented a lot of the material in the last third of the books wasnt that new, except sometimes for what the works were that never happened, but these tantalizing bits were just part of a short bit about an authors life. I can see why this book didnt make it. I think that Random House should have released this as a paperback, as a hardcover there is a kind of steep price for the sort of sale this book depends on. At least for me, little curio type books are much more likely to be gotten if they are around fifteen dollars than twenty-five. A couple of things that made me laugh, because Im immature:By tradition Sapphos husband is asserted to be name Cercylas of Andros, which apparently translates to Mr. Cock from Mansville. I wont even bother to add a joke about Karen here.One of the playwright Menanders favorite plots could be summarized as Whoops! I raped someone last night. Yes, this might be misogynistic, but I think this is a classical tradition that should be revitalized into romantic comedies by Hollywood.
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