Paulie Tandoori
shut it you egg!
slaughterhouse 5 is great i reckon, but cat's cradle is probably better imo.
Slaughterhouse 5
Read it on the train home and I consider it to be a very odd little book. Very odd indeed.
Slaughterhouse 5
Read it on the train home and I consider it to be a very odd little book. Very odd indeed.
It's very odd ent it?
I came to it as a seasoned sci fi lover constantly told 'oh you'll love KV'
I liked, but didn't love. He's a darling of the lit-snob folks who hold him up as some great of the genre. He is good, and inexplicably gnarled and piercing with his prose. But not the champion of sci fi held up by so many booker-sucking snoblites
I thought that there were moments where the prose was good, but there were other aspects of the book which annoyed me - the continuous repetition of 'so it goes' began to grate rapidly (I know why it was used and what it represents), and I'm not entirely certain what he was trying to articulate. If the point was to raise questions of morality regarding the bombing of Dresden, or the futility and ugliness of war and the effects of involvement, it really couldn't have been less convincing. Maybe I just don't read enough Sci-Fi so I can't really say how well he compares with other writers from within that genre, but this has left me distinctly underwhelmed (or perhaps I've completely missed the point - assuming of course that there is a point!). Someone recently gave me a copy of Frank Herbert's 'Dune' to read and gushed whilst doing so.........but I have a bad feeling about even attempting to read that book.
Dune is THE science fiction masterpiece imo. It's far, far better than Slaughterhouse 5. Read it.
Trickster Makes This World: How Disruptive Imagination Makes This World by Lewis Hyde.
One chapter in, absolutely GRIPPED
Looks interesting. I did a bit on Anansie and Eshu at uni, and found all of that fascinating
I keep reading that as Noel Edmund's in conversation with Charles Manson.
There'd always the hope of Manson breaking his restraints and feasting on the un-aging one's brain...