Its part of a compendium of novels deemed essential reading to becoming big brain westoid canon nerd by /lit/. However, since it comes from :amerikkka: Im worried that in the end its going to offer nothing of substance, liberal ideology, and snarky anti-populist messaging and I'm only going to realize this 75% through reading it and cry because im slow at literary analysis.

  • Mardoniush [she/her]
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    3 years ago

    It's...fine...it's just fine. It's a fun read but it's nothing you won't have read 5 times before if you're into high-concept SF-Fantasy. The plot is The King In Yellow.

    I like a good footnote-crawl and complex plot as much as the next person, but more structured books like House of Leaves or Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell do that better, and the rest is just the kind of semi-disconnected stunt writing that people like Joyce and Pynchon and even Banks in Use of Weapons did better.

    • Thomas_Dankara [any,comrade/them]
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      3 years ago

      semi-disconnected stunt writing that people like Joyce and Pynchon

      i'm sad that Inherent Vice is the only Pynchon movie we ever got, but I guess all his other stuff is unadaptable.

      • Mardoniush [she/her]
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        3 years ago

        I reckon you could give Gravity's Rainbow a good hard try with some cuts, but the last third is so David Lynch it'd seem derivative.

      • AcidSmiley [she/her]
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        3 years ago

        I think adapting The Crying of Lot 49 wouldn't be particularly hard.

    • SuperNovaCouchGuy [any]
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      3 years ago

      The plot is The King In Yellow.

      havent read that classic yet so this will b interesting :bean: