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I was really surprised...never saw it coming. It went full weird when she is at the school and i couldnt really understand what she was doing. At the time i thought man, this got super stupid...and then when its explained it makes sense and it changes everything
Joined: Tue January 01, 2013 11:28 pm Posts: 14522 Location: Space City
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Picked this up on a whim today. Cover caught my eye, and the slim page count is about all my free time can handle lately.
This was a good read. Quick, but it hits hard. 33 chapters meditating on the motif that the world the writer experiences is a skipping record. The prose moves like a scratched record that quickly becomes unstuck and spins towards a weighty climax then starts skipping again.
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He looks down at the sea again and drinks straight from the bottle. Behind him, the dirty, beautiful, broken city; in front of him the abyss that suggests defeat…. We win by isolating ourselves, and in isolating ourselves we are defeated, he thinks. The wall is the sea, the screen that protects us and locks us in. There are no borders; those waters are a bulwark and a stockade, a trench and a moat, a barricade and a fence. We resist through isolation. We survive through repetition.
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dimejinky99 wrote:
I could destroy any ai chatbot you put in front of me. Easily.
Anyone ever read Book of the New Sun by Gene Wolfe? I am almost done with the last book in the four-book series, and it's done a number on me. If you unfamiliar with the series, it's basically set on Earth millions of years in the future, when the sun has begun to die out. Initially appearing as a pseudo-feudal fantasy novel, you realize that in fact you're reading about technologies that we have no concept of, but are so old to these people that they appear to be natural or magical. It goes beyond typical plotting and has sections about religion, science, philosophy and more, alongside typical stuff like swords and spaceships and aliens. They're written as though they've been translated into our language from a new language far in the future, so there's all sorts of ambiguity and archaic words.
It's hard to read and really entrancing and like nothing I've ever experienced. Anyone ever checked it out?
Joined: Tue September 24, 2013 5:56 pm Posts: 46993 Location: In the oatmeal aisle wearing a Shellac shirt
Quick and dirty, so a few would probably change if I really thought about it. The top five are definite, the bottom five are off-the-cuff:
To Kill A Mockingbird Harper Lee Tortilla Flat John Steinbeck The Right Stuff Tom Wolfe Sometimes A Great Notion Ken Kesey All The Pretty Horses Cormac McCarthy Blood Meridian Cormac McCarthy Live From New York: An Uncensored History of Saturday Night Live James A. Miller and Tom Shales 'Salem's Lot Stephen King Born Standing Up Steve Martin Silver Screen Fiend Patton Oswalt
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