Re: OT Large Plant Crossing

On Nov 28, 11:31 am, Champ <n...@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Fri, 28 Nov 2008 11:18:21 -0000, ogden <og...@xxxxxxx> wrote:
Champ wrote:
On the subject of books, I finished Engeleby (by Seb Faulks) the other
night. It was one of those books that leaves you with a slightly
unsettled, not-sure-if-I-really-liked-it sensation. It's very well
written, and something of a page-turner, but a bit 'odd'. Which I
suppose is at least a sign of originality. I'd be interested in what
you think when you read it.

I've just finished it too. I quite liked the way the entire book was
deconstructed from within, but I thought John Crace was absolutely bob
on with his list of faults:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2007/may/08/sebastianfaulks

That's overly harsh, imo, but then I didn't realise that 'the
unreliable narrator' was 'one of the laziest and most devalued devices
of modern literature'.

Where's Darsy when you need him?

It's a pretty old trick (I think Borges got the ball rolling with it).

I quite enjoyed Engleby (much more than I did Birdsong, for instance)
but it did have an overall feeling that Faulks sort of gave up trying
to structure it.

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d.
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