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Joseph:
--- Quote from: n0tj3sus on 13 Nov 2008, 00:31 ---As for Gun, With Occasional Music, a gun toting mafia kangaroo and a kitten whose brain has been bioengineered...really?
Have you read the man in the high castle by Philip K Dick if so I would be interested in finding out what you thought about it.
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I certainly wouldn't call "Gun, With Occasional Music" an excellent book. It was a fun read, with parts that were quite engaging and imaginitive, which in my mind made it quite prefererable to "1984", which I can't help but find bland and obvious.
I haven't yet read "The Man in the High Castle", but I do have a copy of it on my bookshelf. I've loved what Philip K. Dick I have read, and have been really excited to read this one, but I've just had lots else to read in the meantime. I'll post impressions when I have gotten to it.
--- Quote from: Inlander on 13 Nov 2008, 03:32 ---Tell me, have you read any Muriel Spark?
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I adore Muriel Spark. Without a doubt she is in the running for being my favourite author. Need to get to bed, so I'll paste my thoughts from another forum:
--- Quote ---Her novels are short, and verge on perfection, if they don't achieve it. She seems to do novels differently than any other author I can think to mention. She tells the reader so many things about the plot and characters, rather than letting actions do it. Her plots skip around, I can't recall a fully linear one. Early in the novel she'll basically give away the ending. But it works. The books are masterpieces, hilarious and pitiless. She's never afraid to be cruel to her characters, there doesn't seem to be an ounce of sentimentality in her books.
My favourite is 'The Public Image'.
Or maybe it's 'The Girls of Slender Means'. Or 'The Prime of Miss Jean Brody'. Or 'The Bachelors'. Or 'The Finishing School'. Impossible to decide.
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the_pied_piper:
Has anyone read any Cormac McCarthy? I read No Country For Old Men a couple of months ago after seeing the film (which i thought was a great piece of cinema) and am half way through the border trilogy, currently reading 'The Crossing' for any fans out there.
I really enjoy his fast-paced writing, the way you never know what will happen next and the way it is difficult to read the books quickly despite them being relatively short (350ish pages paperback). The storylines are so tense and involving that after reading a chapter you have to stop and think about how much has just happened before moving on.
CamusCanDo:
I finished listening to the audio book of The Road and have been listening to The Blood Meridian all day while trying to sort out 300+ books alphabetically.
Inlander:
I gave a bunch of Cormac McCarthy books the ol' first-page test a while back and really couldn't stand the writing. Too much Style (with a capital letter, like Acting as opposed to acting, if you see what I mean).
tomselleck69:
I've read Blood Meridian, The Road, All the Pretty Horses, The Crossing, Cities of the Plain and No Country for Old Men.
I'm more like "Wow this dude's got STYLE"
Also substance
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