Clearly a book like "Gone Girl" isn't formally innovatory but I wonder if it's runaway success suggests that it tapped into something zeitgeisty? (I've not read it, which doesn't help me out here.)
Something more genuinely zeitgeisty than, say, Ian McEwan's strained and bookish attempts at writing novels about AI.
Viktor Shklovsky
what value poetry can have in a world that's desensitised to language (which surrounds us in advertising even when we're not online),
Yeah, but I mean it has to be good as well.
So you've read gone girl?
So you've read gone girl?
3. Gravity's Rainbow
Plus:
Metamorphosis
The Aeneid
The Bible
The Arabian Nights
The Adventures of Augie March
Dance to the Music of Time
A Thousand Plateaux
What is the worst long book? Ancient Evenings or Infinite Jest?
metamorphosis as in Ovid not kafkas short story. Craner recommends you read the Golding translation