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Station Eleven was my introduction to Mandel's work. It remains one of my all-time favorites. Since then, I've been on the Mandel train. I read The Singer's Gun last month in two sittings (which I never do). I've been looking forward to her new book since finishing her last.
So far, it's really interesting. I don't like it quite as much as The Glass Hotel yet but I'm only like 60 pages in. We'll see where it lands.
But Mandel is quietly maybe my favorite fiction writer. I just love her stuff so much.
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The Singer's Gun is 301 pages long, so you're implying that you only need to get up to pee every 150 pages.
Impressive
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VinylGuy wrote:
its really tiresome to see these ¨good guys¨ talking about any political stuff in tv while also being kinda funny and hip and cool....its just...please enough of this shit.
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lennytheweedwhacker wrote:
The Argonaut wrote:
Did you like Brooklyn? I really liked Brooklyn
It’s good. Having seen the movie first and loving it affected me some.
I much preferred the book. I went to a screening of the movie a few years ago where the author, Colm Toibin, did a Q&A afterwards. He's a big fan of the movie
It’s good. Having seen the movie first and loving it affected me some.
I much preferred the book. I went to a screening of the movie a few years ago where the author, Colm Toibin, did a Q&A afterwards. He's a big fan of the movie
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lennytheweedwhacker wrote:
The Argonaut wrote:
lennytheweedwhacker wrote:
The Argonaut wrote:
Did you like Brooklyn? I really liked Brooklyn
It’s good. Having seen the movie first and loving it affected me some.
I much preferred the book. I went to a screening of the movie a few years ago where the author, Colm Toibin, did a Q&A afterwards. He's a big fan of the movie
Did it really change all that much?
I remember thinking that a lot changed, but I can't even remember what at this point. You can remind me what changed when you finish the book
It’s good. Having seen the movie first and loving it affected me some.
I much preferred the book. I went to a screening of the movie a few years ago where the author, Colm Toibin, did a Q&A afterwards. He's a big fan of the movie
Did it really change all that much?
I remember thinking that a lot changed, but I can't even remember what at this point. You can remind me what changed when you finish the book
It seems like the main plot points are mostly similar. I dunno my memory sucks though.
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Continued from the podcast thread
tragabigzanda wrote:
washing machine wrote:
Currently listening to a 2019 episode of a pod called Weird Studies about William Gibson's novel Pattern Recognition. Really interesting how prescient that novel was.
never read it. Is that the one about the psychic marketing wizard? Such a cool premise. But I've struggled to connect with Gibson's writing.
What is it exactly about his writing? I find that it's a strange, almost robotic mix of computer jargon, philosophy and poetry and can get why it's sometimes the worst of all three, but somehow that voice works so well with his subject matter for me that I end up not caring too much. The reward of living in his world is worth it when I read his novels.
Here's a classic example, from Pattern Recognition:
Quote:
She knows, now, absolutely, hearing the white noise that is London, that Damien's theory of jet lag is correct: that her mortal soul is leagues behind her, being reeled in on some ghostly umbilical down the vanished wake of the plane that brought her here, hundreds of thousands of feet above the Atlantic. Souls can't move that quickly, and are left behind, and must be awaited, upon arrival, like lost luggage.
Or this, from Virtual Light:
Quote:
Physically transporting bits of information about a grid that consisted of little else, she provided a degree of absolute security in the fluid universe of data. With your memo in the girl’s bag, you knew precisely where it was; otherwise, your memo was nowhere, perhaps everywhere, in that instant of transit.
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I could destroy any ai chatbot you put in front of me. Easily.
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VinylGuy wrote:
its really tiresome to see these ¨good guys¨ talking about any political stuff in tv while also being kinda funny and hip and cool....its just...please enough of this shit.
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washing machine wrote:
Continued from the podcast thread
tragabigzanda wrote:
washing machine wrote:
Currently listening to a 2019 episode of a pod called Weird Studies about William Gibson's novel Pattern Recognition. Really interesting how prescient that novel was.
never read it. Is that the one about the psychic marketing wizard? Such a cool premise. But I've struggled to connect with Gibson's writing.
What is it exactly about his writing? I find that it's a strange, almost robotic mix of computer jargon, philosophy and poetry and can get why it's sometimes the worst of all three, but somehow that voice works so well with his subject matter for me that I end up not caring too much. The reward of living in his world is worth it when I read his novels.
Here's a classic example, from Pattern Recognition:
Quote:
She knows, now, absolutely, hearing the white noise that is London, that Damien's theory of jet lag is correct: that her mortal soul is leagues behind her, being reeled in on some ghostly umbilical down the vanished wake of the plane that brought her here, hundreds of thousands of feet above the Atlantic. Souls can't move that quickly, and are left behind, and must be awaited, upon arrival, like lost luggage.
Or this, from Virtual Light:
Quote:
Physically transporting bits of information about a grid that consisted of little else, she provided a degree of absolute security in the fluid universe of data. With your memo in the girl’s bag, you knew precisely where it was; otherwise, your memo was nowhere, perhaps everywhere, in that instant of transit.
You got at this with your description, but it really reminds me of an instruction manual or feasibility report. He seems to make a great effort to make a convoluted idea fit into a single sentence, and it never flows. It always feels stilted and kind of herky jerky. I can’t ever settle into a groove; my brain actually has to work to pull together the significance of a passage, but not in a good or enjoyable kind of way.
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