Ryan Gavin Gavin itibaren Damjan-Fortuzaj, Албания itibaren Damjan-Fortuzaj, Албания

Rating: 3.5

some really hilarios stuff in here. Elkin is an absolute master of the verbless sentence, just chock full of well-decribed nouns. There are great snatches of language here, but the itinerancy of the protagonist is not as well-worked as the cruising of the protagonist in Elkin's "Franchiser." The movement of the character/ plot is actually kind of irrelevant to what I found to mine in the book: the absurd pleasures of language

The title was ridiculous and the basic story only slightly less, but there were some intriguing facts about the realatively bloodless sacking of Rome in 410 - because the emperor would not follow through with the promise of land for their protection of Rome. Eventually they did get land, but it still took a great deal of negotiation in order for the Visigoths to acquire the land to pursue their desired agrarian life