Hello Dissensus... im reading
"The Road" at the moment, after I got to grips with his writing style, ive found it readable and almost gripping, but im kinda wary of it, the image and idea is so stark and simple I think one could project umpteen different meaning into it ( kinda like paulo cuelo ?sp? , except McCarthy is at least 12 times better ), I also cant help but feel that what makes it so compulsive is an easy language and plodding plot, like Mark Haddon. I dont mean to slate this book, its just im not sitting reading being blown away by it, maybe when I finish it ill come back eat my words and edit this post.
EDIT-SPOILER------ I finished it last night, its quite an optimistic book?!?! I kept expecting him to kill the boy and himself, hence why the number of bullets where mentioned, in a pretty negative nihilistic fashion but no! Its was much more uplifting than I expected, pretty optimistic in my mind.
I read Dorian Gray some months ago, I feel bad it didnt impress me. The style of writing really narc''d me and I found myself getting annoyed at the relentless descriptions of silk or gilding or jewells or whatever......
So, yeah, one too simplistic and one to waffly and overly expressive.
Ive been on a dostoevsky binge and have read "notes from the underground", "the gambler" and "the double" - the double really got to me, wonderful stuff, so many books and films are like it, it really got me thinking. "notes.." is great but as an intellectual piece, a response to "what is to be done" by wotshisname(?)chernysove??. I have my eyes on Bros Karamazov next.... anyone read it?
I also have found myself drawn to Sci Fi - ... I havent read much, just Atwood, 1984, fahrehheit 451, War of the worlds etc etc.... im thinking of looking into some P.K.Dick or Assimov, ive been kinda distracted with Cyberpunkism, extropianism.... Hans Moravecks "mind children" ??? Guess I should start with neuromancer really?