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Darned cockwombles.
Got American Pastoral up on the unread shelf too.
That's meant to be phenomenal.
I saw him being interviewed by Kirsty Wark the other day about his daily routine. Quite touching, really.
Got American Pastoral up on the unread shelf too.
Ubik by Philip K Dick, halfway through.
Really enjoying it but sometimes, by god, he's such a terrible writer. He veers between brilliance and outright clunkiness on virtually every page.
I found this with the other two or three PKD books ive read too. Can't think of a writer quite like him in this respect, just the sheer range of quality levels within one book.
Good post, cheers.i'
That only explains why there is more brilliance in later novels, it does not explain why a single novel will have trashy and great passages side by side. my answer to this: drugs. he was on speed for all his novels before 1970 and A Scanner Darkly in the late 70s was his first book written while sober (makes sense when you read the author's note at the end). i think i read that he did not read The 3 Stigmata after writing it because the writing terrified him--even mentions some bizarre halucination (stephen king has admitted to not reading or even remembering some of his writings because of drug use).
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what are the david peace japanese books like?
Just hilarious gonzo genius - a sort of demented Heart Of Darkness pastiche set against a backdrop of brutal civil war, heroic drug consumption and bumrape on an epic scale.
It is a grim development for our field [of science fiction] and its hopes to find much of our criticism and academic theses and publications completely controlled by a faceless group in Krakow, Poland. What can be done, though, I do not know.
yeah David Peace must be the best British writer around... everything i've read has been really, really impressive.