Guys, guys. It's my favourite.

Is that just the first of the series or the series entire - Wolfe for me is like slipping into another world, which is more difficult than this one and the air is heavier but you can viscerally feel the foreignness of it.

You've inspired me to check out Prometheus Bound and P. Unbound. Thanks.

We live in hope @disqus_rIrSjPHmnh:disqus

That was my feeling of it too - and the overlay of jazz to structure the novel felt like something cool to think of doing that didn't actually serve to communicate the story.

Kazuo Ishiguro gave a talk recently where he raved about Jane Eyre and Bronte's ability to use the first person narrator to create intimacy and show-not-tell. I can't for the life of my remember where I read about it. Google fu?

And crepe-y skin, which as any woman will tell you -as cosmetics companies constantly tell her - is the worst.

The Wonder Boys movie is in my top five of all time, and I recently bought the book on sale AND my thoughts were almost identical to yours (though perhaps less charitable!).

That's how I feel about Atwood on the whole (except for one poem) though I concede A Handmaid's Tale is a classic, and terrifyingly relevant.

Michael Chabon writes a good essay on this.
I actually read the last book first so I don't know what I think about it. I like the other two books more now, but I really liked Amber Spyglass on first read.

What the fuck!!! I think that's awesome! Do you still have the mags?

Try the Bachman books, or the short stories with The Body. You are doing the Lord's work.

It reminded me of B3, so I loved it too.

Savour every word. Man I remember when I first read that book, and then I had to wait like 15 years for the next!

I just read Alberto Manguel's Into the Looking-Glass Wood. He is a great writer (I love his History of reading). It is old, I found it in an Op shop, so the discussion about books vs digital readers is funny (though he calls it!), and the interminable Borges story is interminable.
The essay on the Dirty War in…

I knew I always liked you!

Have you read The Ladies of Grace Adieu?
That world seems so realised for Clarke, it amazes me.

Just compare Penn's current look to this man. Is Mortensen late fifties? Isn't he older than Penn, and yet still so bloody beautiful.

Liked for hating Penn.

If I could I would stab chosen-one-will-lead-us in the eye till it dies.
I swear it is what ruined Sleepy Hollow (my poor, darling bat-shit insane first season Sleepy Hollow).