Opinion of Tristram Shandy

[politicus]

Opinion of Tristram Shandy, gentleman either as described in Sternes novel or (if you too never got around to reading it) as halucinated during experiments with various chemical substances.

[opebo]

Loved the movie.

[opebo]

Just looked up the text online, and I've definitely read a lot of it.. possibly all of it before, I think probably in the 80s or the early 90s.  Good lord I'm getting forgetful in my old age.

Lovely book.

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

I've read a lot, but not nearly all. I do love what I've read.

[The Mikado]

I hate the expression "ahead of its time," because it's usually used to imply that something of a certain level of quality is inconceivable for people from previous generations to achieve.  Tristram Shandy is different: it's ahead of its time in that it uses literary techniques that wouldn't even be properly introduced or formalized for close to two centuries after is appearance.  It's structured like a 20th century book.