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tis on my Plex. I forget if you've got a share there.
I loved this book. I watched "After Yang" this week and it sort of had the same vibe. I recommend it if you haven't seen it yet.
After Yang has been on my list! I should catch it before it's gone from Criterion.
Thanks for reminding me, I need to read Inherent Vice
Great book! Have you seen the film or no?
I did see the movie but don’t remember too much about it, for some reason
The book and movie are both great. The movie, directed by PT Anderson, almost feels like a prequel to The Big Lebowski in a lot of ways.
Bizarre and absorbing mixtures of high and low culture, lots of science, math and history informing metaphor and form, postmodern labyrinthian plotting, anarchist politics, punny names, mysticism, more than occasional vulgarity, and lots—lots—of silly songs.
The only two I’ve read are Gravity’s Rainbow and Inherent Vice both are great.
Gravity's Rainbow is a fucking trip, but it rules
Well what did you think of Fairy Tale. Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow is in my too read pile.
Unfortunately, I thought it was kind of mediocre. It had elements I enjoyed, but the fantastical bits felt simultaneously too derivative to be surprising and too unmoored from actual folklore to seem referential. It felt like neither fish nor fowl. (Also: King writing as a modern teenager in first person makes my teeth hurt.)
Yeah, I didn't think it was great (and poorly edited in the last quarter). Kind of just wanted to make sure it wasn't me. It's kind of like Fairy Tales are real and live in the Upside Down. It took me longer to read than I would imagine it would take me to read Jonathan Strange. I think we have a copy of that on the shelf. The wife didn't like it. I never bothered. Maybe I'll take it with me to the mountains the end of the month.
Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell is kind of an odd duck, but I’ve also never quite read anything like it. Susanna Clarke hasn’t just thought up a story, she’s invented an entire magical history of England, with mythology and reference books and scholarly citations and rambling footnotes that sometimes end up being entire short stories in and of themselves. It’s an incredibly rich work of imagination and I think of it a lot even a decade later. It’s a book that feels like a TARDIS.