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Ray_Otus
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Ok. I searched for 4 minutes using every avenue that looked sensible to me and ... nothing. Finally I found them by clicking on @clash_bowley's avatar, then on Discussions under his name, to see what he had been posting and that's where I found the …
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Where? I can't find them @clash_bowley
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@WildCard -- no judgment from me. Honestly, I've decided not to feel guilty for dropping in and out. I want to commit to more of the books chosen, but I am doing what I can. And that's good enough. LOL
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So when does the chat begin?
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I read it.
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@NeilNjae -- that is a pretty good rationalization, thanks! :) @Apocryphal -- it might be. But unless it is uncovered as such somewhere in the rest of the novel I am inclined to take it at face value, given the way it was presented (by the author) …
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I had issues with this 'chapter' in regards to the whole drone-mapping thing. I feel like Priest is trying to make something metaphorical/interesting out of the whole struggle to map the unmappable. So it's really weird when one character seems to h…
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I experience an installation of this [tunneling/soundscape] sort at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago. I was using the stairwell to get to the second level and I noticed some funny humming noises/whining. Then I saw a rack holding a flyer on…
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(Quote) Well. Let's break that down a little. For one thing - no one is really journeying. The narrator is writing about these places from an island that he has never left. So there is no epic journey, only a kind of voyeuristic one. (Ha. Never thou…
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(It's gems like these, right? It's why you want me in the club. LOL)
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When I hear Sark, I think of the evil dude from the 80s movie Tron.
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" like a cross between LeGuin's Earthsea and Italo Calvino's Invisible cities " IF ONLY!
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There's something about it that reminds me of my small-town upbringing too. When I go back "home," my Mom wants to tell me stuff about all of these people I no longer know (and barely knew or cared about in the first place). Mom: "Did…
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Picked it up and read a few pages this morning. My gawd Terry Pratchett can write when he wants to.
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" It's a bit too much like the small, dusty history of Sark that you found was the only thing to read by the 25-watt lamp in your hotel room." LOL
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Have you read this author before @clash_bowley? I'm about halfway through.
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I am sitting here guiltily staring at the paperback I failed to read.
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I am certain that Priest doesn't supply any kind of top-down structural view because he doesn't want the reader to have one. We are left to look at the narratives through a sheet of invisible plate glass with whatever lighting the author decides to …
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(Quote) It would even help to have all the links underlined in my paperback. LOL. Like "this has been mentioned before." But honestly I'm not worrying about that. I don't love the book enough (at least not yet) to devote that kind of focus…
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Do the island names have any significance? I still feel like I’m missing some kind of joke when I look at them. Maybe Priest used some generative method for coming up with the names and that is triggering pattern recognition for me.
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Can’t edit this on my phone but of course I meant mime world. Not mine world.
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I think the story could stand alone. I enjoyed this one. And ... what the hell happened? I get the sense that Commis was hurtling with force at the narrator when he whipped out the imaginary glass. When Commis hit it — is he really that good of a mi…
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Yeah. They’re memory is wiped in the process and they have to relearn their own backstory.
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Sorry my thoughts on these are so shallow.
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I thought his reprisal painting with himself as an old man was a kind of fun, reverse Dorian Gray moment.
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Question about the "Me Too" comments. I saw the passage about upset husbands, fathers, whatever. I didn't see any where women had complained about the attentions of the artist. Maybe I was reading too fast. I'll admit I was scanning a bit.…
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"Without the internet I don’t know what I would do” Why did I think there was no Internet in the archipelago?
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@Apocryphal - it's hard to be the person who picked the book. Bitterly hard sometimes. I can't say I see the point of this one yet, but it is beginning to interest me more and as someone said above, the writing kind of floats along pleasantly enough…
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“the details that once alerted the twenty-sixth Seignior Emmeret to his house-guest’s waywardness are no longer unambiguous.” I had to think shamefully long about what that last bit meant. LOL