I read Neil Gayman's 'American Gods' recently. Really enjoyed it - loads of great ideas, many of which I thought worked very well, though there were a few bits that I thought might work better in a comic book format. Apparently it's a TV programme these days with Lovejoy playing the rather excellent character, Wednesday.
What are you reading now?
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Originally posted by DracoM View Post'Falk' by Joseph Conrad.
If you want to know how modern critics approach Falk, try this for size :
"Conrad’s Falk portrays the act of cannibalism of a white man to propose that even resorting to cannibalism can find its moral justification within the society that abhors such actions. This effect is achieved by means of simultaneous narrative distance and involvement created through both deictic shifts in various narrative spaces (embedded within the main narrative space and constituting the textual world, subworlds and possible worlds with multiple spatio-temporal shifts) and delayed decoding which results in imperfect knowledge worlds delivered by the personal, justifying viewpoint of the intradiegetic narrator. As such, both deixis and delayed decoding, we argue, are ultimately related to the manipulation of narrative distance; they produce a kind of uncanny effect of simultaneous immediacy and distance which is fittingly in line with epistemological doubt as an aspect of modernist sensibility."
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I went through an Atwood phase a few years ago in which (as is typical of me) I read all of her books, the ones I hadn't already read, one after the other. Having read The Handmaid's Tale long before that, it didn't form part of the binge. I think I'll read it again before moving on to the sequel. I did like Oryx and Crake and its sequels very much, and The Blind Assassin and Cat's Eye, in particular, but everything she's written is more than worth reading.
Who among us likes reading SF? I do, it's a teenage enthusiasm I never grew out of. I spend some time reading every day, and I seem to have fallen into a rhythm of alternating between more "serious" books and SF novels, although I do like the latter to be thought-provoking rather than (just) entertaining. It strikes me that, apart from Atwood, much of the best work in this area is being done by female authors. Maybe something to do with not getting carried away with the futuristic hardware etc. I'm just in the middle of the third and so far last in Emma Newman's Planetfall series.
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Originally posted by Rjw View PostDon't tell me who wins!
[FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]
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