jenks
thread death
So, i'm twenty pages from teh end and I have enjoyed the read but I have yet to be sure what I feel about the book.
It reminds me, in places, of Perec's W (double-vie in French). The way it starts so light, almost whimsical and then turns ever darker in this surealistic world it has created.
I like the jazz name dropping - as if all the roads in London were named after grime stars or something. And I like the food references. maybe the pisstake of Satre is over done but the fetishisation of books, as opposed to knowledge is interesting.
I'm not sure if the characters are more ciphers and insubstantial in comparison with teh play of ideas.
Anyway, it's a start. I'd not read him before, so I am grateful for that.
It reminds me, in places, of Perec's W (double-vie in French). The way it starts so light, almost whimsical and then turns ever darker in this surealistic world it has created.
I like the jazz name dropping - as if all the roads in London were named after grime stars or something. And I like the food references. maybe the pisstake of Satre is over done but the fetishisation of books, as opposed to knowledge is interesting.
I'm not sure if the characters are more ciphers and insubstantial in comparison with teh play of ideas.
Anyway, it's a start. I'd not read him before, so I am grateful for that.