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Old 21st August 2006, 05:20 PM
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Re: Read anything good recently?
Originally Posted by Paul
I was going to pick this thread up again soon anyway, but Jose Jones has prompted me to do so now. Of my holiday reads, I only got through a couple. With having young kids, I just can't devour books like I used to anymore. I read 1974 and also 1977, with 1980 and 1984 still to read. They are definitely dark and both were pretty good. However, the style is so similar to James Ellroy's that word plagiarism could almost be justified. The plot becomes a little oblique in places, but I'll deffo finish the quartet.

Cloud Atlas was very clever and quite enjoyable too. However, the connections between the stories and the overall theme/conceit is a little blurred. Worth reading, though.
The Illuminatus Trilogy is fucking nuts. The style is bizarre with jumps in person, place and time in the middle of sentences, never mind from paragraph to paragraph. The basic idea is entertaining, but, after seven hundred pages, I'm struggling to get it finished. I've just become bored with the plot not really going anywhere and the daft style.

I'll get back to this when I've read the others off my list.
I'm halfway through that at the moment and finding it difficult to pick it up again. Black Swan Green was superior in every way, I think.

I've meant to check out that David Peace stuff. He's also written a novel on Brian Clough's 44 days with Leeds, which sounds interesting - Damned United.
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