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Good writing, cool atmosphere, too much sex (I'm definitely not a prude but it was a bit gratuitous). In the middle it seemed like it was going nowhere but the way he linked all the characters together at the end was fabulous.
fulfilling my 2019 goal to read (at least) one book each month that has been digitally moldering, unread, on my NOOK for years and years and years.i think i would have liked this more if i had read it a) many years ago (probably when i first bought it as a physical book BEFORE i re-bought it as an e-book) and b) if i had read it under better circumstances with fewer distractions and a calmer brain. steve erickson is not an author you want to be reading when you are in a distractible headspace. i...
Unlike the novels of Pynchon and Auster and the films of Lynch, I just wanted this to end as quickly as possible. I love the parallel identities, intricate metaphors, and worlds that Erickson creates, but his prose ultimately becomes too dense, repetitive, and boring to will the reader to do the mental gymnastics required in piecing together a piece of literature of this type. And as an aside, Erickson is so under-read that there is almost no critical analysis of the novel that posits different
Weird but good in it's wayI don't even know how to respond to this book. It was confusing and weird. I like weird Nd confusing though. I think that I would have to read it again to grasp all the details i missed along the way which were brought up again near the end. The part in Germany i didn't really understand what was going on, I think my mind blanked on something that came before that may have made it more clear.
I pushed through this novel about a character named Sally Hemming who was raped by a man named Thomas. The novel follows a strange logic from revolutionary France through emptied out Berlin and a hypocritical religious state. At the heart of the novel is an exploration of "the pursuit of happiness." The novel disturbed me as it worked to provided agency for the raped Sally in her relationship with Thomas, and the other men who desire her through out Erickson's structure of history. Her agency de...
Further proof of the depth Erickson explores in his fiction, a depth that few novelists even consider.
Oh, just -- quiet, rain storm: let me think.Pathetic fallacy is a literary device that suggests a connection between human qualities; emotions, and the weather.There is no pathetic fallacy in Steve Erickson. Nothing so formal; nothing so easy to interpret.There are no literary devices. Not here.There is a black sense of something seething out from between the cracks. There is history, restructured and reviled and revered; characters that social justice fighters would claim have been defiled or v...
About five years ago I read Erickson's first novel, "Days Between Stations," and I loved it. In my Goodreads review I wrote - "Must read more Erickson!" And then I guess I forgot. Fortunately, last month, someone I don't know liked my old review, and I was reminded of my promise and did something about it. Thank heavens, because I liked this book even better (I should have realized I would when I saw on the back cover that it's blurbed by Thomas Pynchon and William Gibson) A fantasia of American...
This was a reread. Wasn't really working for me this time around, though, so I put it down. I'd still recommend to anyone who hasn't read Erickson. This or any of his other 3 early novels (Rubicon Beach, Days Between Stations, Tours of the Black Clock). Very much takes you into mesmerizing alternate dream-realities, usually somewhat post-apocalyptic. He has a fine hypnotic writing style. He can get pretty heavy-handed and repetitive with the metaphors, but he's much more accessible than, say, th...
Like taking a Pynchon novel and stripping out the coherent bits and the humor to create an extended disturbing hallucination. Multiple storylines, each weird on its own, may or may not intersect (who can really tell?) but not in a coherent way that is apparent to me. What does it mean? I don't know but I like it a lot. I first read this a few years ago and am glad I decided to return.
"there are only three things you die for. Love, freedom, or nothing." - pg 296
My first Erickson...now I am a big fan. I've read this twice, not sure of the dates. Maybe its time for another read!
This is without a doubt one of the best books I’ve read. The depth, complexity and emotion of it. How this started moved and ended, brilliant.
