I wonder if I can stream that online, it sounds really interesting. That whole world and all the whacked out craziness is so like, affecting? Addicting? I want to know everything about it. Ensconce myself.
Diary wasn't my favorite either, I was young, so when I started reading through it I realized what kind of depraved and like, dark places books could go. Up until then it was all Lord of the Rings and Redwall and the classics. Then that book came along and I was like "Well..this isn't happy at all, and there's diarrhea and food poisoning!"
But, it's his little quotes and stuff that are always the best part, so even if the plot is weak there's always ****ing beautiful prose.
Don't fret it, I'm sure you read at a perfectly accetable pace. The job I'm on is slow going this month, so it currently gives me hours of downtime in between work, so I pretty much get close to 4 hours of reading during the day.
You've sold me, I'll check this guy out. You would reccomend this "Vurt" then I would imagine?
The world of Lynch is pretty much the most unique one I can think of, to be honest. All of his classic films have done a lot for me, particularly Mulholland Dr, Fire Walk With Me and Wild At Heart. I don't understand how he makes such nasty and grotesque things seem so beautiful.
I'm sure they've stuck the new material up somewhere, someone should have done, anyway. But if you can afford the box set (and have a blu-ray player, I just use a PS3) then you should look into that, it's a beautiful sight to behold just as a material item and it's also pretty much a treasure trove of TP related stuff.
I imagine Diary is as good a place as any to start to be fair, it is dark as **** from what I read (I got about half-way through, and have since read what happens later in it online), as is any Chuck, really. And yeah, the writing... Some people complain that all his narrators sound the same. Personally, I disagree, but even if that was the case, who cares? Some of the stuff he comes out with is life-affirming.
As a side note, due to Choke I have a clock with birds instead of numbers on my wall...
You're also the only other person I know who read Redwall as a kid. Crazy. I imagine it's more popular over there than here, though.
Yeah, Vurt is a great starting point. You can get it pretty cheap online, I think. The current editions of his books have silly covers and look unrepresentative of his style though, which kind of irks me.
Yeah I mean, Diary wasn't even as Dark as his other stuff gets, but it was the first book I read growing up that had like, a female protagonist who was a mess and sick and losing, so that was a first for me. It was a change of pace. Can you imagine if I had started with something like "Snuff?"
lol at the clock.
As for Redwall, man those books were great growing up. I still have yet to read a book that makes me as hungry as those scenes describing their big banquets and plates of food and tarts. I'm getting hungry just thinking about it.
Shit! I just realised I haven't read Snuff. But I know the plot and yeah, that'd be a hell of a place to start, in a sense. Then again, it might have just put you off him for a few years... how old were you when you read Diary, then? It sounds like you were way young. I only started reading his stuff when I was 17 or 18 or something, but I made my way through them fairly quickly. To be honest, I only got back into reading properly around 17 after a few years of forgetting how much I liked books. I think that started just after I finished the last Harry Potter book or something.
Haha yeah, Brian Jacques clearly liked his food. They were just great books for young audiences, I had most of them read to me at first when I was very young, but then started reading the rest on my own. I'm impressed that he not only wrote so many of them, but also how well they stand up as quality novels today. I still have them back at home, and last time I was there I had a flip through a few, and his style is really good. Certainly not dumbed-down crap for teens or anything like that, and yeah, it was pretty Tolkien-esque, really
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