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I have a couple new book reviews up at Rain Taxi. They’re both books I liked. The first is 10:01 by Lance Olsen, a book I thought was very creative; it’s premised on a very innovative idea that I believe is extremely relevant to our works, and it worked its concept very well.
The second is Maps For Lost Lovers, an admirable book with an intriguing story and good use of language.
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Recommended Books DeLillo's major work before White Noise is probably his most underrated novel. Its all right here--the politics of paranoia, terrorism, the unnamable--set in an evocative, timeless Greece.
The most bizarre Abe novel I've yet read, which is indeed saying something. About a subclass of Japanese men who go around wearing boxes from the waist up (and then use them as domiciles in the evening), the book is also an experiment in perspective shifts, a highly unstable, metafictional first-person narrative, and an exploration of voyeurism, consumerism, and aberrant sexuality.
Charting the path to three gunshots--the one that killed filmmaker Theo Van Gogh, the one that disabled his Islamic extremist assassin, Mohammed Bouyeri, and the one that led to Vincent Van Gogh’s one hundred years earlier--Olsen tells three separate stories that resonate with one another on numerous levels: the logic of extremism, the role of the dissident in Dutch society, the limits of tolerance, the purpose of the artist, the feeling of the most important five minutes of your life. Read my interview with the author.
Creatively structured, well-executed epic novel of rural South Africa from 1950 - 2000. Takes on a lot and lives up to it magnificently. Highly recommended.
A book that's an interview about the book you're supposedly holding in your hands. Creative, potent, and full of life. Just what metafiction should be. Read my post on it.
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Biblioklept on Patience (After Sebald)
Stealing from Conversational Reading
The Names by Don DeLillo (1982)
The Box Man by Kobo Abe (1973, English 1974)
Head in Flames by Lance Olsen (2009)
Agaat by Marlene van Niekerk (2006, English 2010)
The Weather Fifteen Years Ago by Wolf Haas (2006, English 2009)
Odd that you don’t mention that these were both Lit-Blog Co-op nominees this time round…
Odd too that you did not mention that Olsen is actually a Death Android.
Richard: I thought it was so obvious as not to be worth mentioning.
Actually, Geoff Ryman’s novel 253, published in 1998 (though it was a web hypertext first), has almost the same structure as 10:01 (judging by your review).
The oddest of all is no mention there was a real life story about a family who murdered their daughter for wanting to westernise.
Reminds me of Dickens, and, as we have recently learnt, Hardy, who used the gory court reports of hangings, and so forth, as the basis of many of his novels.
What have I been telling you people all along? This is all part of the great liberal conspiracy. You’ll thank us when the war is over and the appropriate people have been strung up, their heads on pikes and their seditious spirits expired.
This is the sort of unconscionable action I would expect from a liberal litblogger. Not only does this man review books that are gushingly approved by his peers, but he has the temerity to call attention to his own disgrace.
Perhaps the time has come to turn up the thermostat in the kitchen — if you catch my drift.