Raq - you are totally on to something. I would have posted earlier, but things are nuts here. It's a tough read, but worth it. Going back and reading the first few chapters again helped. Where are you now?
Ink (the next one - really beautiful covers) is harder to focus through, seems a lot more scattered. And there are a lot of morality play bits that I'm having trouble with right now. I can't imagine what it took to write this.
Problem now is that I couldn't sleep one night, and Ink was too scattered... so I picked up China Mieville and now I've got a short story about feral alleys & streets (a really good story) all twined with the characters in Ink. Bad reader. No colophon.
eta: reads the word 'feral' in Corwood's post. blinks. You're right about him being a feral Faulkner - I'm just amazed that that word is having itself a mini-threadfest.
Where are you now?
Almost done. I have like 6 pages to go, but the toddler has identified the competition and tries to kill the book every time I pick it up.
References I left out of my list include The Rule of Four and Gormenghast.
I love the idea of a feral Faulkner, but I suspect I would hate the experience.
Second that emotion, Raq. I expect that's why I don't stick it through. Wonder what the regular Oprah audience thinks about that(Not to slam them: Pre-Buffista, I was a pretty devoted Oprah viewer. IJS, though, that it used to be that relatability used to be a fairly strong part of Oprah's choices, and now ??)
erika, have you ever read anything by Benjamin M. Schutz? I was reading an old one of his I picked up at a second-hand book sale and was thinking you'd like him.
Really? Is he a sick fucker, too?
I'm in the middle of The Vor Game right now. The one shortcoming is not enough Cordelia.
I haven't read any of the Cordelia-centric books yet. I have to go backwards in chronology after finishing this compendium and correct that problem.
Why did no one mention the new Kushiel book was out? I was so tempted to buy it tonight, to read in the hotel room tonight and tomorrow. But there is no room in my luggage for a hardback. Not to mention no room in my budget...
Someone needs to report on McCarthy on Oprah. I thought The Road was astonishing, but so not the book I would expect Oprah to grok, or to pick for her book club.
erika, Schutz is ... well, I don't know if "sick fucker" is an accurate description, but he's kind of grim. Lots of people die. He's good, but not a ray of sunshine.
Oh, I love his work. He's like a feral Faulkner.
Genius! I love him too although I haven't read the Road yet. I had to take a break from the post-Apocalypse for a while.
