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elvis.shrugged
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 Posted: Fri Apr 20, 2007 2:55 pm |
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I know this is a bit late, but Adilegian, that Anthem action figure theater is fucking awesome. Bravo.
I still think that might the best of her novels, mainly because it's a retelling of the Prometheus myth. This allows to avoid the pitfalls of her later work--the sex = rape bullshit of The Fountainhead, for example, even though that is a creepy extension of her philosophy.
That being said, I've always loved how viciously optimistic her novels are. They make you feel as though as though you can move a mountain.
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elvis.shrugged
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| Posted: Wed May 06, 2009 10:36 pm |
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The Man in the High Castle is incredible. The amount of research that Dick put into the history of it is epic.
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elvis.shrugged
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| Posted: Sat Nov 28, 2009 6:18 pm |
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I just started rereading Norwegian Wood. The only Murakami I never quite finish. I don't know why. Some of it touches nerves. Some of it is just too distant. Passages here and there exemplify Murakami's brilliance, and some of my favorite moments in his work come from that book. It doesn't feel like an early effort, where styles and themes just haven't clicked together yet. It's complete, in its own way. I just never finish it.
They'll always have me, anyway, those three. Even if there's Norwegian Wood and the way it finds itself back on a shelf before anyone sees it through. |
Norwegian Wood was always the one Murakami book I never quite finished as well; I reread it a few weeks back, for once in its entirety. It's so good! Stay with it, since it really does get better and better until the end.
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elvis.shrugged
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| Posted: Thu Aug 05, 2010 2:28 am |
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Started reading Gravity's Rainbow yesterday. 25 pages in. Already one of the most fucked-up books I've ever read. Digging it.
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elvis.shrugged
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| Posted: Thu Aug 05, 2010 5:58 pm |
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That's by Frank Miller!? One of the things that drew me to it was how awesome that cover art is. The sleeves and back are amazing, too. The back cover depicts a German D-Day leaflet, showing England being bombed to Hell.
I'm looking forward to slogging through this book. I'm glad to hear that it's worth it.
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