Back in 2006 or so I found a copy of this book (well, the double edition with The End of the Road) at the Baltimore Book Thing and read The Floating Opera soon thereafter. I didn’t know very much about John Barth (I mean I still don’t actually) but I remember reading his introduction and how he sees his novels functioning in pairs — The Floating Opera/The End of the Road being that first combination. Anyway, I thought “huh, neat! I will read both of […]