this is the voice of re:mote induction.Tuesday, January 06, 2004
city of glass - paul auster - city of glass is one of the parts of the new york trilogy by paul auster, i finished it last night. as an introduction to auster's work it perhaps is not promising, given that it took me about 70 of the 130 odd pages before i was starting to get into it. the story is about identity and as it becomes clear language. daniel quinn was a poet, who lost his wife and son, after that he started writing detective novels as william watson, about a character called max work (is that an almost simpsons reference?). he has been doing it for long enough now that he feels that he is something of all three identities. but with a phone call one night looking for someone else altogether he finds himself taking on a fourth identity along with a real case as a private detective.
falling out of cars - jeff noon - with the lack of excitement generated by paul auster, i started falling out of cars, the latest by british writer jeff noon, the paper back having just come out over here in november. i had read an extract from it before and it seemed interesting, i am already 60 pages in and i am enjoying it. though i am struck by the coincidental similarities between it and city of glass, in city of glass the character starts to write down everything in a journal, and the man he is following is obssessed with language and the concepts of babel, while in falling out of cars the sections are journal entries by the narrator, trying to keep track of things in a book as language and everything around her loses its meaning....
just seen these two things posted elsewhere -
la perdita - jessica abel - the complete first issue of her four part series about a young american woman moving to mexico, apparently it is entirely sold out and is now online. no doubt there will be a collection at some point, and i'll need to make sure i haven't missed the fourth part. i have the first three issues sitting for me to re-read in one go.
quicksilver annotations - apparently contains some annotations to neal stephenson's quicksilver, which i finished the other week, i still need to write more about it, but i think on the whole i was perhaps disappointed by it. it was reasonably readable, but i think in the end overwritten given the seeming lack of an overall plot, at least in a specific manner.
falling out of cars - jeff noon - with the lack of excitement generated by paul auster, i started falling out of cars, the latest by british writer jeff noon, the paper back having just come out over here in november. i had read an extract from it before and it seemed interesting, i am already 60 pages in and i am enjoying it. though i am struck by the coincidental similarities between it and city of glass, in city of glass the character starts to write down everything in a journal, and the man he is following is obssessed with language and the concepts of babel, while in falling out of cars the sections are journal entries by the narrator, trying to keep track of things in a book as language and everything around her loses its meaning....
just seen these two things posted elsewhere -
la perdita - jessica abel - the complete first issue of her four part series about a young american woman moving to mexico, apparently it is entirely sold out and is now online. no doubt there will be a collection at some point, and i'll need to make sure i haven't missed the fourth part. i have the first three issues sitting for me to re-read in one go.
quicksilver annotations - apparently contains some annotations to neal stephenson's quicksilver, which i finished the other week, i still need to write more about it, but i think on the whole i was perhaps disappointed by it. it was reasonably readable, but i think in the end overwritten given the seeming lack of an overall plot, at least in a specific manner.
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