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Post by Dreadlocktruth on Aug 22, 2017 6:19:13 GMT
How was Diesel? I read Handmaid's a few years back and loved it, I can't remember how it ends though so that will work in my favour when I finally watch the series ha.
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Post by danzia on Aug 22, 2017 16:47:55 GMT
How was Diesel? I read Handmaid's a few years back and loved it, I can't remember how it ends though so that will work in my favour when I finally watch the series ha. Diesel was really good. I'll tell you a secret about the author in what's app
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Post by Dreadlocktruth on Aug 31, 2017 16:57:40 GMT
Finished 'Interview With The Vampire' today. Really enjoyed it! I'll definitely look into some of the immediate sequels though I've heard to avoid the modern stuff.
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Post by Dreadlocktruth on Sept 9, 2017 11:55:15 GMT
Just finished a reeeeeeally difficult chapter in Jerusalem which is, quite honestly, an amazing piece of writing and almost like a literary psychedelic experience. The chapter is about James Joyce's daughter, Lucia (a real person who is buried in Northampton) and the entire thing is written in an unforgiving mix of phonetic pronunciations and a disregard of sentence structure, meaning several words bleed into one another. But then he also replaces parts of those pronunciations with words relating to the character's emotions (for example - the word 'considering' in the context of being disturbed by the revealed information is written as 'conshuddering') meaning that every word has multiple dimensions to be interpreted, if you can decipher the words at all.
I have to admit I tapped out after a few pages (the chapter is about 50 pages long) because I just couldn't follow along, then I saw a suggestion online to read it along with a clip from the audiobook that's on YouTube and I found that helped greatly. Not only was I able to (mostly) understand what was happening, but the aforementioned implantation of words to expand upon the context jumped out at me far more and I was able to enjoy the chapter.
Apparently it's written in a similar style to Finnegan's Wake, which I've not read, but that chapter definitely felt like a difficulty spike!
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Post by saralcat on Sept 12, 2017 7:08:06 GMT
Feersum Endjinn by Iain M. Banks has sections a bit like that. One of the characters is dyslexic and his sections of the book are written phonetically in the first person, wich is initially tricky to get your head round, but by the end of the book you're reading it just as easily as the rest of the text.
I started The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula La Guin the other day. Classic sci fi.
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Post by Dreadlocktruth on Sept 12, 2017 7:10:10 GMT
Ooh I have that on my Amazon wishlist.
I've spied a few Iain M. Banks books in the charity shop of late but I don't really know much about his work so I've not been sure about grabbing them, would you recommend?
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Post by saralcat on Sept 12, 2017 7:40:23 GMT
Definitely! I love his Culture novels and his sci fi work in general. Of his other fiction, I've only read The Wasp Factory so far.
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Post by saralcat on Sept 12, 2017 8:12:28 GMT
If you're going to read the Culture books, start with The Player of Games, which is actually the second novel in the series. Consider Phlebas is the first but more of an aside to the main world. Player of Games gives a much better overview. Use of Weapons, the third novel is brilliant.
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Post by Dreadlocktruth on Sept 12, 2017 12:17:18 GMT
I'm not sure which ones are there, I shall have a looksie later today
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Post by Dreadlocktruth on Sept 12, 2017 22:52:46 GMT
My god, there are so many of his and none had "Culture" in the title. I'll have to do some research, I couldn't pick which one to take lol.
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Post by Dreadlocktruth on Sept 12, 2017 22:53:18 GMT
There's also some Asimov which I'm tempted to try but I'm worried it'll be very dated.
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Post by james on Sept 13, 2017 13:09:37 GMT
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Post by Dreadlocktruth on Sept 13, 2017 13:19:34 GMT
Not cheating at all, I count the audiobooks I listen to as books I've 'read'.
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Post by james on Sept 13, 2017 15:42:11 GMT
Oh good. In that case I've read loads. I don't think I'm dyslexic but I end up re- reading a page over and over again to take it in because it seems like a soup of words. So I like them being read to me. Shit, maybe I am dyslexic. Hmmm Just on Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka. It's of it genre, best to get it read. Been there done that etc.
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Post by james on Sept 13, 2017 16:04:06 GMT
If I find out I'm dyslexic I'll be really pissed off. I figured I was just stupid all these years. Doesn't stop you reading. Makes you absorb more.
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