Raiziel wrote:I’m still digesting the whole thing, and it’ll take a while to get my head around it. Do you remember what you took away from it? My early take was that it’s about mental illness, which is a theme that my own fiction is deeply focused on. I want to dig around and see if there are any interviews with Ishiguro regarding the story, but I need to let it settle first.
Raiziel wrote:I don’t know man, I thought this… …was something that made me pick up Weaveworld in the book store way back when.
LivDiv wrote:5. Alice in WonderlandA classic. I love that it doesn't attempt to make sense or have a moral or any real arc for Alice to go on. Its just a bunch of mental shit happening.
Raiziel wrote:9. Dead Moon by Peter Clines.
This is the third book in the author’s Threshold series. Each one is a self contained story with new characters set in the same universe. This one is a bit of a departure from the first two, which have contemporary settings. The title’s a big giveaway; it takes place two hundred years in the future and is set on the moon. And it has zombies in it. Zombies…on the moon. Not a fan of the idea, not gonna lie, and had I known it before going in I might have skipped this one. I liked the first two books in the series because they had decent mysteries to pull me through the narrative. They were pulpy too, but fun. This one doesn’t bother with a mystery. There’s an intriguing prologue that promises a lot more than the story ever delivers. All you’re ultimately left with is a sci-fi action movie in book form, and if that’s all you’re really after then this will probably float your boat. I already own the fourth book, Terminus, and I’ve been reading one of these a year, so I’ll probably get around to that at some point and hope Clines gets the series back on track.
Moot_Geeza wrote:Trainspotting - Irvine Welsh
I'd never read this. The film was superb and definitely held up on a fairly recent rewatch, but there are multiple additional layers of grime, grot and cuntery to most characters in book form. What an 'orrible bunch and what a brilliant novel. It's almost a collection of short stories, which I wasn't aware of. Might read Porno at some point.
Moot_Geeza wrote:Trainspotting - Irvine Welsh I'd never read this. The film was superb and definitely held up on a fairly recent rewatch, but there are multiple additional layers of grime, grot and cuntery to most characters in book form. What an 'orrible bunch and what a brilliant novel. It's almost a collection of short stories, which I wasn't aware of. Might read Porno at some point.
mistercrayon wrote:I like how you can slowly understand thegibberishScots after a while.
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