So, what was I saying about my boner for brevity?
Monday 22 August 2011
Thinner: 19th-22nd August 2011
Loved it.
Saying what I'm about to say, I can hear you asking why I'm reading the the complete works of a man who has regularly dropped 600-1000 page books on us with frightening prolificacy. I know. You're probably right too. Anyway, I love short books. In the same way as I hold to the assertion that if your film can't tell the story in 90-100 minutes there's something amiss with your storytelling, authors who can't do it in 200-300 pages fail to understand the power of word economy and are presumptuous of their readers and the time they're willing to steal from them.
With that in mind, Thinner was a gorgeous oasis of brevity, taut suspense and skin crawling 'what if' and 'imagine that'. The plot wasn't next level, high-concept but a more classic dark tale. Lovely stuff.
Saying what I'm about to say, I can hear you asking why I'm reading the the complete works of a man who has regularly dropped 600-1000 page books on us with frightening prolificacy. I know. You're probably right too. Anyway, I love short books. In the same way as I hold to the assertion that if your film can't tell the story in 90-100 minutes there's something amiss with your storytelling, authors who can't do it in 200-300 pages fail to understand the power of word economy and are presumptuous of their readers and the time they're willing to steal from them.
With that in mind, Thinner was a gorgeous oasis of brevity, taut suspense and skin crawling 'what if' and 'imagine that'. The plot wasn't next level, high-concept but a more classic dark tale. Lovely stuff.
Friday 19 August 2011
Thinner - 19th August 2011
Very happy to be facing a mere 300 pages after The Talisman. The first Bachman book I've come to that I haven't read previously. I'm going to go and read it now. See you soon. If not after finishing this one I've a round up of the ten film adaptations I've watched in the last few months and more. Thanks for reading, by the way.The Talisman - 8th May - 19th August 2011
For fuck's sake, I took my time with this bugger. The time I took to read it is fairly indicative of my enjoyment of the thing too; i.e. not all that much. Sure, there were sections that I had a good time reading (Wolf, in particular, and when Jack makes it to Thayer) but the book generally dragged its arse like a dog with worms.
Perhaps it was a labour of love or just a jaunt and a flexing of their writing muscles in a less typical, but not unrelated genre, for the co-authors but I could have done without it.
Perhaps it was a labour of love or just a jaunt and a flexing of their writing muscles in a less typical, but not unrelated genre, for the co-authors but I could have done without it.
Thursday 18 August 2011
Tumbleweed
I'll save you the trouble of putting a mirror to the nose and mouth of this blog. It's still breathing. The Talisman is a big, lolloping bastard that has regularly been beaten out by comics. I'm down to the last 150 pages and ready to put the bugger back on the shelf.
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