Facewon wrote:Can't recall actually crying, but have been moved close by some Alastair McLeod short stories.
As mentioned, just started "one of us." which is about anders brevik. It begins with a vivid description of scenes from the island.
First 2 pages made me hold my breath. Just intense.
tigerswiftly wrote:N.K. Jemisin wins a 3rd Hugo award on the bounce...
I should get around to reading her books!
Because the are voted for by the people who know and read the genre most extensively and are therefore typically very high quality indeed.Bollockoff wrote:
Bollockoff wrote:Are literary awards actually indicative of good shit?
Stopharage wrote:Just finished AmericanWar by Omar El Akkad. It opens with the outbreak of the Second American Civil War in 2074 and impact it has on one particularly family. In part a cautionary tale, but also mirrors the ‘war on terror’ and present geopolitics but with the roles shifted somewhat. It’s a plausible dystopian scenario which is as well written a debut as I’ve read in ages. An excellent read and one which I think will be highly thought of for years to come.
“...it is never safe to classify the souls of one's neighbors; one is apt, in the long run, to be proved a fool. You should regard each meeting with a friend as a sitting he is unwillingly giving you for a portrait -- a portrait that, probably, when you or he die, will still be unfinished. And, though this is an absorbing pursuit, nevertheless, the painters are apt to end pessimists. For however handsome and merry may be the face, however rich the background, in the first rough sketch of each portrait, yet with every added stroke of the brush, with every tiny readjustment of the 'values,' with every modification of the chiaroscuro, the eyes looking out at you grow more disquieting. And, finally, it is your own face that you are staring at in terror, as in a mirror by candle-light, when all the house is still.”
tigerswiftly wrote:Writing off one of fantasy's most celebrated writers due to not liking one of their earliest novels, and one he himself has dug out for being the work of a young guy trying to be 'gritty gritty gritty' doesn't seem too smart.
I doubt you'd get on with the other Bas-Lag novels, but Embassytown, Railsea, The City and the City... There's a wealth of different styles he has written in.
He's very divisive though, so I'm not terribly shocked you didn't like him. Perdido is my least favourite, I think, of the 8 or so I've read.
tigerswiftly wrote:Never read any TC. Very much put off by the whole 'unrepentant rapist' element.
That is probably a gross oversimplification or misunderstanding of what happens... But ew.
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