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I've only read Dhalgren, which I have extremely mixed feelings on. The hazy liminal atmosphere and writing was impressive and moving. The people were generally
by quesera 3y ago
I've only read Dhalgren, which I have extremely mixed feelings on.
The hazy liminal atmosphere and writing was impressive and moving. The people were generally shallow or neutral, but the main character was very difficult to appreciate and was borderline repulsive (not the sex, but the person and sometimes the vivid descriptions of his putrescence).
I was interrupted about 50 pages from the end (of like 800 total), and never bothered to finish it.
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Any recommendations on another book from Delany?
- zabzonk 3y ago"Triton" (but this has another somewhat repulsive protagonist) and "Stars in my pocket like grains of sand"
- logicprog 3y agoI've said this elsewhere in the thread, but I really deeply enjoyed Nova. It's got a really unique, special feel to it I can't explain.
- stevenwoo 3y agoDhalgren is a very difficult and very long read. It might benefit from a hypertext or ebook form because it is so self referential and the main character is such an unreliable narrator, sometimes I would read one section, then have to refer back to make sure I was at the right place in the book because this happened before or this text was already used somewhere else or some other character said something different about the same experience. The sex scenes were very repetitive after about the quarter mark to me, but those seem to reflect a lot of his personal experience. I thought Babel-17 was more approachable, shorter and smaller in scope.