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Post by Leif on Nov 6, 2013 15:34:17 GMT -8
I always enjoy time traveling books. The back flap hails it as a a "new kind of thriller" somewhere between "The Time Traveller's Wife and The Silence of the Lambs". So make of that what you will. I will add that it's a pretty quick read. There are a lot of instances of fairly short chapters, which makes it pretty easy for me to try and put away one more here and there, contributing to it being a page turner.
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Post by DementedDuck on Nov 6, 2013 17:39:30 GMT -8
Speaking of The Time Traveller's Wife, I read that a few years before the movie came out and absolutely loved it. It's a great book, much better than the movie makes it out to be. And from what I heard from those of my friends who saw it, it was an enjoyable movie. I'd recommend the book to anyone who liked the movie, because it's really so much better (I'd also recommend it to anyone who didn't like the movie, mind). I felt like the movie made it into more of a love story than it should have. The book is more about the struggles Henry and his wife went through throughout the story. It's heavier than the movie, but definitely a good read. And when I say heavy, I was about twelve when I read it, so it's not too heavy. Just heavier than the movie. It gets into the gritty details of the emotional struggles a lot more. I really liked it.
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Post by firebolt153 on Nov 6, 2013 21:03:49 GMT -8
I would have to agree with Ducky's review of The Time Traveller's Wife. I also read it several years ago, probably before it was optioned, and I liked it quite a bit. I've never read The Silence of the Lambs (or seen the movie) so I don't know what part of that book I should be crossing with Time Traveller lol.
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Post by DementedDuck on Nov 7, 2013 10:03:05 GMT -8
I haven't read The Silence of the Lambs, but the movie is great, I'd recommend it. :3
As far as serial killers in fiction goes, I read a few books from my college library. One was about a kid whose whole family was massacred while he was left sleeping in his bed, when he was about eight. He goes back to his hometown in his twenties to figure out why he was spared and some other murder stuff happens but I don't remember it much. I also don't remember the name of the book.
I also read Exquisite Corpse, which was suuuuuper heavy for a sixth form college library book. It was described as being about a serial killer who escapes from prison, runs away to America and meets another serial killer and falls in love with him. It turned out to be a lot grittier than that; they were both necrophiliacs and rapists. There's issues of kidnapping and AIDs too. It's very graphic. I enjoyed it overall, but they really should warn about that kind of thing.
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Post by firebolt153 on Nov 7, 2013 16:55:55 GMT -8
The kid sleeping in his bed reminds me of The Sleeping Doll by Jeffrey Deaver, though the girl who escaped in that story was worried she was going to be the murderer's next victim. It's been awhile since I read it so I'm a little fuzzy on the finer points.
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Post by Leif on Nov 13, 2013 12:39:38 GMT -8
Just finished reading Red Country by Joe Abercrombie. I'm pretty sure I recommended him earlier in the thread. If you read him then, you're aware that he's written a trilogy (The First Law Trilogy) and probably also know that there's 2 standalone books set in the same world, with some character overlap, but different stories from the trilogy. If you haven't read them, I recommend them. They are of the newer "dark" strain of fantasy with a lot of grey and not much clear cut black and white. They have a pretty good world, and despite some bleakness, do have some wry humor and memorable characters running through them.
Well, Red Country is the 3rd standalone. It's also a Western. A fantasy western.
Gold has been struck in them thar hills and people are heading to the Far Country to seek there fortunes. They're stopping through the small and inaptly named town of Squaredeal. Shy South is a farmer scraping out a living on her farm with a young brother and sister, a friend, and an adopted father figure, a hulking northman named Lamb. He's some kind of a coward.
When she returns home to find her farm burned and her siblings kidnapped, she and Lamb strike out to track down the villain and recover her kin. Their adventures lead them west, as they join up with a Fellowship striking out for the town of Crease to stake their claims.
It's a western, and definitely still set in the same fantasy world you've been reading about all along. It hits a lot of common western tropes, from the gold rush to attacks by native peoples to seedy frontier towns and even a showdown of a sorts. Along the way you'll meet rebels, blacksmiths, gangsters, and a lawyer. This was a fun ride. It felt more lighthearted in some ways to me than TFL, Heroes or Best Served Cold. There were some humorous moments, some really exciting ones, and some interesting twists. It seems to revel in being a western which makes for some neat moments.
From the standpoint of being set in the same world, of the 3 standalones, I think this one more depends on having read the trilogy than the other two. You actually don't have to if you don't want to, but some stuff might make a bit less sense, and some of the meaning will be lost. Still, it's not like you'll have no idea what's going on and why, as that's all self contained. If you've read the series, you'll be pleased, I think, to see the return of Nicomo Cosca, as well as some northmen you may recognize. You do get a small slice the "empire vs union" plotline sneaking in, but it's not the main focus. You also learn a bit more about the Maker. On the whole, it's set far from events we've seen to date, though just after them.
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Post by Leif on Nov 18, 2013 12:20:11 GMT -8
You know it's going to be a long day when you find the following note in your pocket: Dear You,
The body you inhabit used to be mine.
And even more so you're surrounded by bodies and have amnesia.
The woman who used to be Myfanwy (maybe pronounced like Tiffany with an M) Thomas is having a rough go of it. On the plus side, her former self was a great administrator and planner, and had some forewarning, so Myfanwy has a cache of letters and explanations to help her cope. On the downside, circumstances indicate that her attacker may be one of the most powerful people in England.
Moreover, she apparently works for the Checquy, the top secret agency defending the UK from the supernatural, and their ancient and formidable enemy appears to have once again risen in Belgium. Can Myfanwy, deprived of her memory, find her attacker and protect her country from magic most foul?
I checked out The Rook by Daniel O'Malley weeks ago, and it kept getting shuffled to the end of my queue, as somehow I didn't want to read it. I'd gotten rather the wrong idea of what it was about. There's a distinct sense of humor to this book that I wasn't expecting. It's not a farce, but the way this mousy paper pusher matter of factly deals with supernatural terrors is definitely comedic. The book mostly swaps back and forth between Myfanwy trying to deal with her job and explanatory epistles from her former self. There's some sense of Men In Black here, and some of the Bourne Identity, and a healthy dose of fun. I'd recommend this for people who like stories about the supernatural, who like funny stories, and who are interested in combining those with a spy type story. There's some resemblance to Jasper Fforde's stuff, but while this was comedic, it wasn't as punny, which I appreciated. I'll go 4 out of 5 thumbs up on The Rook.
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Post by DementedDuck on Nov 18, 2013 17:37:49 GMT -8
It's a Welsh name, if my short time in Wales has taught me anything, and it's probably pronounced Mu-van-wee.
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Post by firebolt153 on Nov 18, 2013 21:20:10 GMT -8
For a second I thought Leif HAD found that note in his pocket and I was like well then... That said, it sounds like it's up my alley, so I'll add that to my (absurdly long) to-read list. Related--I clearly have too much time on my hands. Only two of those books were short stories. And there's still six weeks left in the year.
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Post by Leif on Nov 19, 2013 6:36:07 GMT -8
Yeah, she says it's pronounced Miffany, but there are indications she pronounces it incorrectly.
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Post by Jolyma on Nov 19, 2013 21:25:37 GMT -8
Ok, so over the summer, on my daughter's recommendation (so she brings books home that she has either read, or wants to read, to either get a discussion or an ok to read it), I read The Giver.
Great book. Until the end, which...spoiler alert, but I can't exactly discuss the issue without it...
The hero runs away into a snowstorm, where he starts hallucinating about riding a sled down a hill into a town. And there it ends.
I thought it was TERRIBLE. He made it through all this trial and tribulation just to freeze to death, and what was worse, my daughter LOVED the book, so now I'm trying to figure out if I should explain what happens when one freezes to death.
So she gets around to asking me how I liked it, and, well, I can't lie. So I tell her. And she looks really funny at me and says:
"Mom. It really happened. There's a sequel."
Now I must find this book, because there is still a little part of me that doesn't believe it!
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Post by firebolt153 on Nov 19, 2013 21:41:23 GMT -8
I just remember not liking it when I had to read it in school. I knew there was a sequel, but I recently discovered that there's like, three sequels?
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Post by Leif on Nov 20, 2013 6:43:58 GMT -8
How is there a sequel if the guy dies?
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Post by Leif on Nov 20, 2013 6:49:37 GMT -8
I guess it can happen. Maybe it's about a cold weather search and rescue team.
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Post by AhoyLindsay on Nov 20, 2013 8:00:37 GMT -8
I also assumed that he died until I learned about the sequel. But I liked it-I often find it very interesting when the hero of the book dies at the end.
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Post by Furare on Nov 20, 2013 23:13:34 GMT -8
Well, it sure beats "And then he woke up and it was all a dream", I guess.
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Post by Jolyma on Nov 20, 2013 23:17:32 GMT -8
There's a sequel because what he's hallucinating really happened, and he didn't die.
I assumed he was freezing to death and was dreaming, because, well, who expects to just randomly stumble upon a sled that will take you down a mountain and into a town?
I don't usually mind a bold author who kills off the protagonist or other major characters, but, it seemed to me at the time that there was this HUGE buildup about escaping the situation he was in, and starting a new life, and saving the child, and then, oopsy, they died. The End. Nothing was resolved, just, dead, like the author couldn't figure out how to best conclude the book, so he killed everyone off.
That's why I disliked the ending. Now, I want the sequel so the ending makes more sense!
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Post by Leif on Nov 22, 2013 14:47:22 GMT -8
So I just finished up The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood.
In the fairly near future (from 1985) the US Government is overthrown and a strict theocracy is instituted. There's the deportation of minority groups, the subjugation of women, and the requisite executions. It's fair to call this a dystopian novel.
The Tale is really sort of a memoir by Offred, a woman in the transitional phase of the revolution there. She was probably in her early or mid 20s when the revolution happened and was forceably integrated into the new society. The story is, in a way, stream of conscious. It unfolds with a consistent narrative in the present but interspersed are sort of scattered remembrances of the past and how it moved towards the current state of affairs. It's much more of a personal look at the revolution and subsequent society than a societal one. You see sort of one niche and larger questions of "How does it all work" aren't much discussed.
This was a pretty good book. I found it interesting that the narrative was similar to Oryx and Crake, the other Atwood book I've mentioned here, sort of a personal narrative bouncing back and forth from the before to the after building towards a climax in each. Similar scenarios, but some different themes. In many ways, it's similar to some other dystopian novels you've read. This isn't too surprising. Surveillance, distrust of neighbors, control of information, and something to quash the will to rebel in the populace are all pretty much hallmarks of a totalitarian dystopia. So there are definitely things you'll recognize from, say, 1984.
What I found most striking in the book were some of the reasons given for the revolution. That and the women's social conditioning. You look at a society where women have a defined and celebrated role, and one which serves to remove virtually all agency from the individual. What resonates is that some of those same attitudes enshrining that loss of agency you see presently. I don't really want to discuss them specifically here, as I think that might constitute a spoiler. I spent a lot of the book trying to work out the hows and whys before they were known.
Another thing I liked and that sticks out is the amount of word play. It's not really punning, but the way the protagonist takes current words and phrases and recasts them differently, reflective of her current situation. I thought it made for an interesting contrast between the Then and Now.
I found it to be a bit of a slow read. It wasn't particularly long but it took me longer than I'd have expected to finish. It's not really a difficult read, there's not complicated words or constructions or silly names or anything. I think the time was largely a result of me trying to glean all the info I could as I went to piece things together. The way it's rolled out there's not really a big infodump or something, rather the slow revelation of the world and circumstances through the way daily activities are related.
I'd recommend this book. It certainly got me to thinking some about gender relations.
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Post by firebolt153 on Nov 22, 2013 20:35:21 GMT -8
I've got that book checked out right now from the library, though I'm about to start The Night Circus.
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Post by Leif on Dec 2, 2013 8:08:15 GMT -8
So after finishing the Handmaid's Tale I decided I wanted some sci-fi that made me doubt reality, myself and my humanity, so I grabbed some Philip K Dick. Confessions of a Crap Artist here I come!
Unfortunately, this was the only short novel PKD published that was not a genre novel. Still filed in Sci-Fi though. So... not quite what I was looking for.
Jack Isidore is a simple man. He has a low pay, low effort job. He reads a lot of magazines with a sci-fi or conspiracy bent. He collects facts. He's pretty obsessive about it. He's "rescued" from his broke squalor by his sister, who lives with her husband and kids on some land outside of Petaluma, Ca. His sister Fay is very manipulative (a pro-social psychopath?) and her husband Charlie is a coarse, crude man. The PoV switches between Jack, Fay, Charlie and a neighbor Nathan as we watch the seemingly idyllic little world out in the country fall apart.
There's some stuff here that is pretty classic PKD despite not being Sci-fi. The subnormal Jack is a very classic PKD type character.The name Isidore you might recognize from Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? and his occupation of Tire Regroover also appears elsewhere in the PKD oeuvre. A lot of the sense of being trapped in a situation also strikes a very Dickian tone. On the whole, I have some trouble rating this one because I went in expecting and wanting something else. Maybe 3/5.
If you want to jump into trying out PKD, I'd really recommend Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? and The Man in the High Castle. Or a short story collection. The Short Happy Life of the Brown Oxford is a good one. Once you've got a bit of a handle on it, move on to things like A Scanner Darkly or Ubik or The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch.
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Post by Jolyma on Dec 2, 2013 9:55:04 GMT -8
I want a Nook, but I don't need the whole tablet thing, but the regular plain ereaders are so small. I like the size of the Nook HD. I want that size, but not all the doodads that come with it. Although I suppose all the doodads would entertain the kids on those 2-3 hour car rides. But it's so much more to pay.
Bleh. Maybe for tax return.
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Post by DementedDuck on Dec 2, 2013 19:25:58 GMT -8
I finished The Long Walk and really, really enjoyed it. I know there's a lot of controversy surrounding it, with people claiming it's a fake story or it's true but it happened to them, and I'd be quite disappointed to learn that it was definitely fake.
I picked it up because I remembered enjoying the film, The Way Back, although I didn't remember much about the film. When I finished the book, I watched the film again and was very disappointed by it. It misses a lot of the aspects I really enjoyed about the book. For example, the film begins at the POW camp in Siberia and they quickly move on to the escape. In the book, almost all of the first half describes how he came to be in the camp, first with his struggle in the Russian prisons, what he's accused of, why he's accused of it, and then with the trek to the camp itself. They begin in Poland and march, all the way to somewhere near Irkutsk in Siberia, some 3000 miles if I remember correctly. It's really important to showing the struggles he and the others face, setting the tone for both the climate and the way the Russians treat the prisoners. I think it's really important to know how easily he could have died before he ever made it to the camp. Then, when he's in the camp, there's a decent amount of time dedicated to his preparations, recruiting members for their escape team, how they figure out when to go, where to go, and why to go there. There's also a couple of characters completely missed out in the movie whose presence I enjoyed in the book and most of the escape team aren't at all notable until they're actually out.
When they're on the run, I don't think the film had enough time not only to adequately demonstrate the struggles of the whole journey, but also to show character development; there was a lot of character development missed in the film.
It was a good movie before the book, and a great book, so I'd advise watching the film first, if at all (I wouldn't skip out on the film because it is enjoyable in its own right, but I wouldn't watch it after reading the book if I were you).
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Post by Leif on Dec 4, 2013 9:45:32 GMT -8
So after a recommendation a long time ago, I read Ready Player One over the holiday.
In the near future (30 years) it sucks. Power is expensive. So is housing. And transportation. People have retreated into a virtual world called OASIS. The play there, they work there, they even go to school there. OASIS was made by a man named Jim Halliday, an ultrarich ubergeek that many compare to people like Gates, Garriot, and Gygax. Halliday dies childless, and leaves his company, 240 billion dollars, and control of the massive VR used by everyone to whomever can find an Easter Egg he has hidden among the thousands of worlds. A hint in his will outlines an overwhelming quest for 3 keys to open 3 gates and defeat 3 challenges. It also hints that clues and answers will be found among Halliday's passions: old videogames and 80s pop culture. Our protagonist is a teenage boy named Wade alias Parzival. Arrayed against him are billions of other hunters, but especially an unscrupulous corporation hoping to charge fees that will change the structures OASIS itself. Join Parzifal as he and some other hunters, like Art3mis and Aech, try to complete the seemingly insolvable puzzle to win the biggest prize in the world.
This book is awash in 80s trivia, references to classic TV shows, and throwbacks to classic games like Pac Man and Joust. It seems very much written for someone my age who grew up watching shows like Ultraman and Family Ties, who wanted to be Matthew Broderick, who can quote War Games and any John Hughes movie, who sees a reference to Tomb of Horrors and thinks, "Don't stick anything in the statue's mouth!" A Renaissance Man (or woman) of the 80s, really.
I said in the past, people seemed to be split on the book, either they loved it or they hated it. I can see why some might dislike it. It certainly is a pretty simple book, and does seem to have a lot of nerd wish fulfillment stuff. That being said, it's really fun book. Not the most challenging or thought provoking read, but a really fun one. It has a lot in common with other cyber-quest type novels. Just with lots of 80s. Without knowing the 80s at all, the book, I think, would still be enjoyable. Stuff is explained. There's just not the little note of enjoyment from seeing something from your childhood referenced in a book.
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Post by Taelac on Dec 4, 2013 14:04:34 GMT -8
I loved Ready Player One.
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Post by Leif on Dec 4, 2013 14:12:42 GMT -8
I wouldn't say love, but I really enjoyed it.
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Post by Leif on Dec 16, 2013 12:28:47 GMT -8
I recently finished Dreams Underfoot by Charles de Lint. It's a collection of short stories. It's also the first book in his Newford series (at least by internal chronology, according to Wiki). He was recommended as a good author to check out for urban fantasy. And it turns out he was.
They stories are all set in the town of Newford. It's meant to be a sort of anycity. I get the idea that it's sort of smaller than Austin, but bigger than College Station. It's got a college and a bad part of town. The stories by and large focus on people on the edge of society: bohemians, punks, and street people. They basic premise centers on there being a lot of things not really compatible with the standard worldview hanging out right on the edge of our perceptions. You'll read stories about a goblin society hiding in a ruined part of town, an urban Bigfoot hunt, mermaids, faeries, and other spirits, benevolent and otherwise. They're always about how they interact with regular folk. They were pretty well written and by and large pretty interesting. Less misses than I'd expect in a collection. There were one or two that were a little scary and several that were more poignant. Thinking back, I think all but one of the main characters was a woman as well. On the whole, the author did a really good job of capturing sort of a magical sense about the world.
I'd probably go like 3.5 out of 5. I'll likely try and grab another couple in the series as well.
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Post by Leif on Dec 20, 2013 6:45:56 GMT -8
So last night I finished reading "My Uncle Oswald" by Roald Dahl. Yes, Roald Dahl of James and the Giant Peach and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory fame. This was a substantially different book. Not children's literature at all. The titular character, Uncle Oswald, recounts in his diary how he made his fortune. Not only is he the worlds greatest fornicator, but a single minded and unscrupulous man when it comes to obtaining his goals. As a young man he travels to Sudan to procure the Sudanese Blister Beetle, an extract of which is the most power aphrodisiac of all time. He manages to parley this into a small fortunate and then sets about to open what is basically a sperm bank filled with issue from geniuses and royalty of every stripe. Hijinx ensues as he travels about Europe pursuing this goal. I went into this blind, only knowing that Dahl had written some novels for adults and I was curious. Suffice it to say it turned out somewhat different than I thought. It was a pretty funny book all told, not laugh out loud in most part, but there was some smirking and thoughts of, "I can't believe I'm reading this." A review on Wiki says "The tone is that of a gentleman telling ribald anecdotes to his male guests after dinner. The leer is civilized... the dialog gets mean and raunchy, but the physical detail is kept decorous...." which is pretty darn accurate. Even so would, I'd not recommend it to Wrecker. I'd give it probably 3 out of 5. At some points it feels like a bawdy Wodehouse, but never achieves that level. Also, check out this smug fornicator on the cover of the one I borrowed.
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Post by Taelac on Dec 20, 2013 20:30:01 GMT -8
That's one smug fornicator.
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Post by Leif on Dec 31, 2013 14:48:34 GMT -8
It's been slow, so 2 reviews. In separate posts, because that's how I roll.
First is Lord of Light by Roger Zelazny. This is a classic sci-fi novel, masquerading as fantasy and/or mythology. The opening sets the tone for a lot of it.
Earth has been destroyed and humanity moved to a new planet. Using technology available to them, the first settlers have set themselves up as Hindu flavored gods. They control technology that allows souls/minds/atman to transfer to new bodies and use psychic probes to detect traitorous thoughts before doing so. Citing Karma, those with undesirable thoughts find themselves denied reincarnation or reincarnated into undesirable bodies, whether old, unfit, epileptic or even monkeys and dogs. As such any rebellion is effectively quashed before it can get rolling.
Some of the First are against this and want everybody to be brought to an equal level of technology, chief among them is Sam who is (or sets himself up as) Buddha and converts with peace and leads a revolution against the gods and in failing passes to Nirvana. He is dragged out of Nirvana and reincarnated by those wishing him to try again.
This is a really fascinating book. The story is pretty straightforward. It's very readable. The story really shines in the way it is told. It's several somewhat distinct chapters outlining the different parts of the story and told in a very mythic fashion. They're also non-chronological, so you find out the first rebellion failed on like page 10 and start reading about how it came to be and progressed later. Sam is set up as a sort of trickster deity and maybe Buddha. Zelazny does an excellent job making the stories in the past seem like myths and as though they were being told as such. You read about How Mahasamatman stole a new body from the Lords of Kharma or How Mahasamatman converted the executioner of Kali. They're familiar formats and archetypes adapted to tell a new story, and they do it well. The story being told through a Hindu lens is an interesting "twist" to me. On the whole I really enjoyed it and would recommend it. I should point out, that while Masamatman and similar names are thrown around, they're mostly a lot more wieldy (is that a word? less unwieldy) and go with Sam. So if that would dissuade you, don't let it.
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Post by Leif on Jan 3, 2014 12:12:30 GMT -8
So, the promised/threatened other book review. I had seen a review for a Japanese writer named Banana Yoshimoto. That's apparently a nom de plume, as her given name is not Banana. The back flap and author info alleges that after receiving some acclaim for a previous novel, "Bananamania" swept the world. I think I'd have remembered that. I was unable to discern any connection to Bananarama. Apparently she received some critical acclaim for "The Kitchen" but I grabbed "The Lake" from the library.
The Lake was a pretty interesting book. It's about a 20s-ish woman who begins a hesitant relationship with a man of similar age she sees in a window across the street from her apartment. As their relationship progresses, she realizes that something terrible has happened in his past.
Given the front flap info (which has a bit more information than I presented above) I was expecting something dark and possibly mystical, which this wasn't. Really it's a sort of a story about 2 people falling in love and trying to deal with their past and the way those pasts effect their current relationship. There is some mysticism, but not much darkness. It's a short book (my copy was 188 pages) and I'd say a fast read. It's very tightly written, in that I felt there wasn't a lot that was unnecessary. It was somewhat weird because I wasn't totally into while I was reading it, but I had trouble putting it down. Once I finished, I did find myself drifting back to think about it and what it was really about. I enjoyed it, I'll likely pick up another book by her to read. It's probably not a book for everyone, but as a someone who was once a 20something guy, some of the struggles outlined by the protagonist resonated with me, despite pretty different life situations. If it sounds interesting, I'd go for it, it's quick and worthwhile.
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