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[QUOTE="xmikex:512059"]brian_dc said:[QUOTE]xmikex said:[QUOTE]brian_dc said:[QUOTE]Reading "Only Revolutions" by Mark Z. Danielewski it's pretty out there.[/QUOTE] What do you think of it? I was a HUGE fan of House of Leaves, and I was dying for Danielewski to put something new out, so much so that I spent an hour trying to order The Fifty Year Sword (a book he wrote and released only in the Netherlands 500 copies in Dutch 500 in English) off a Dutch website. I went to Borders to buy Only Revolutions, read a half a dozen pages and just got mad. Is there any solid prose in the whole book or is it all weird poetic stuff?[/QUOTE] I kind of feel the same way as you. I think the only reason I'm still reading it is because I'm waiting for it to come together somehow. I don't know whether or not to just stop reading the historical stuff on the side along with it or not...I think if I did that I might be able to follow the parallels in the two parts better.[/QUOTE] Danielewski is a great prose writer, and it's really disappointing to see him put out a book that doesn't demonstrate that. I mean, Borges is obviously a huge huge influence on him, and Borges was always pretty far out there, but the guy at least put together recognizable sentences. House of Leaves afforded him a lot of creative license (I guess he had to walk away from a couple publishers intitially with HoL because they refused to do the weird typesetting) and it seemed like he used it all to put together a show-offy pile of shit instead of the real novel we'd all been - very patiently - waiting for him to write. I dunno, you tell me. I'll probably pick up a copy of it at some point, but I just didn't want to pay $30 when I'm sure there'll be PLENTY of used copies on Amazon in a month.[/QUOTE]
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