Dystopia Literature
Soon I Will Be Invincible: The Movie (Austin Grossman) ---»
...Soon I Will Be Invincible by Austin Grossman, one of the newest, flattest, most comic-book-like written, and most excellent, contemporary translation and update of a paratactic Rabelaisian Le Quart-Livre of Pantagruel, is a true contribution to that canonical and oft-under metabolized taxonomic clade of literature dealing with the inhuman fables of a fictional character… and [...]
Amnesia Moon (Jonathan Lethem) ---»
...I was pretty sure I read this book a long time ago, but then, I thought, hey… maybe not. Maybe it was someone else who thought they had forgotten who had read the book. Even though, if whomever it was who had forgotten about who had read the book, had actually read the book and [...]
The Solid Confessor: Science Fiction Classics (Eckonesbit) ---»
...Ab.So.Lute.Ly. Demented. This book has awesome art and is crazy. If you open it like the I-Ching, and start reading anywhere, it says something demented. The back-copy marketing-goo says its like textual arcology, and yes. It is. As far as I have been able to figure out, its kind of like reading that early Russell [...]
The Crying of Lot 49 (Thomas Pynchon) ---»
...Muted horn. stamps. on. Post office. conspiracy. High School exampleism of an era. Written on bed sheets in musty hotels. Something is happening and it goes back in time like image references in jasper johns paintings. in the Great Tradition. Harold Bloom has conniptions. Unreadable. Just Livable. – reviewed by skipper
