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Hmmmm. . . a yeast infection. This isn't my funnest read ever.
— Jan 03, 2013 02:25AM
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Jan 02, 2013 12:34AM
Wasn't part of it smashed to bits, by a gun, I assume?
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Silvio wrote: "Isn't part of it smashed to bits, by a gun, I assume?""elsewhere" is a weird word to choose. It sounds like it isn't even in the dining room.
I didn't think it was the dining room in the first place.
Silvio wrote: "Isn't part of it smashed to bits, by a gun, I assume?"lol at Dixon explaining how to tie shoelaces to a five-year old: "with the knot facing the lateral side"
You're fast. I admit this book's a bit hard for me to follow, especially when my mother language's not English. But I'm trying.
Silvio wrote: "You're fast. I admit this book's a bit hard for me to follow, especially when my mother language's not English. But I'm trying."The writing lacks clarity.
5 chapters and 5 different povs O.o
It's kind of an interesting change from other books with one or two povs (for some unexplainable reason I dislike duo povs with a passion), isn't it? Also those different characters have pretty fascinating personalities, although CeeCee's somewhat annoying
Travanis reminds me of Jacob Cullen of As meat loves salt, but not as violent.
Silvio wrote: "Yitzchak, my favorite character so far. "lol, uh oh!!!
Silvio wrote: "What about you?"I like the idea of Travanis and his Head. I guess it's supposed to be scizophrenia, but it reminds me of an illustrated adult's book called The Brothers Head (plural brothers, not possessive brothers) about psycopathic conjoined twins, which freaked me out a lot when I was little, and also the end of A Canticle for Leibowitz where the old lady's mutant vestigal second head comes alive, as her main head dies, watched by the priest trapped in the rubble after the atomic bomb is dropped. So Travanis and his Head hold possibilities for me. But the writing: blurgh. So ugly. Disjointed. Cumbersome.
Also I'm hoping the author will do something interesting with the class struggle.
EDIT: I just realised it's called Brothers of the Head, and it's by Brian Aldiss, and is therefore a classic. It scared the bejeezus out of me though.
I usually don't take much notice of the writing in general. Honest, I care only about the feelings it brings out of me and whether it's engaging enough to make me want to read to the end.
