http://www.bookian.com Book Discussion Tue, 30 Mar 2010 15:09:18 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 http://www.bookian.com/jeff-vandermeer/finch/75 http://www.bookian.com/jeff-vandermeer/finch/75#comments Wed, 06 Jan 2010 15:13:54 +0000 admin http://www.bookian.com/?p=75 The new book out by Jeff Vandermeer, Finch, has garnered some pretty good reviews from around the webosphere [latimes], and we have to say theyre pretty close to right. Hes pretty much known for the Ambergris city setting and Finch continues the series. Finch centers around the kind of metaphysical detective endemic to the Cohen Brothers films, without the overt humor quotient paradox. Characters include a dead historian who isnt quite dead, “memory bulbs” that grow from the heads of dead people, and all manner of fungal felicities. A great, fast moving read.

]]> http://www.bookian.com/jeff-vandermeer/finch/75/feed 0 http://www.bookian.com/j-g-ballard/the-drowned-world/31 http://www.bookian.com/j-g-ballard/the-drowned-world/31#comments Wed, 26 Aug 2009 20:27:17 +0000 Bookian http://www.bookian.com/?p=31 Best of all Ballard books. An early one, and out of print currently. Strange fever dreams, like Thomas Manns Death in Venice, but, unlike Mann, Ballard never ignores science. This is about a reptilian fever dream in a post-warming world, where all of humanity has retreated to some small islands north of greenland, and send out reconnaissance patrols of military scientists to reclaim and save what they can of human history and knowledge. RIGHT! Meanwhile, brains retreat into the neadrathalic core from which we all grew (except for those who just showed up one day because God spread some seeds, meal crumbs stuck in his flowing white beard off a velvet painting in gold glint hanging on the wall of a small church in Las Vegas), and.. but I cannot say more. Natures plan has sworn me to silence. Awesome book. – reviewed by global warning

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