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Originally Posted by Trebro
Just finished Oryx and Crake by Atwood. Her writing is as sharp as ever, with that wandering narrative style that I've come to associate with her.
I read Oryx and Crake several years ago, and still remember the power of the evil guy, and how the lines he spelled out with his refrigerator magnets became increasingly foreboding. I couldn't find my copy, and wanted to read The Year of the Flood, so I ordered both.
I'm 3/4 way through Wittgenstein's Mistress by David Markson; it's awesome!
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sounds awesome! I just "Told the Publisher I’d like to read this book on Kindle!"
From Publishers Weekly:
.....In this unsettling, shimmering novel, the reader is immediately drawn into the world of a woman who has gone mad because she is the last surviving creature on earth. Sitting at a typewriter in a beach house day after uncharted day she keeps no calendar or clocks she pours out her thoughts on music, art and ancient Greek legends, and remembrances of her travels across the globe in abandoned cars, looking for other living beings. But after a while, some discrepancies creep into her rambling, compelling monologue: an accident that she first says took place in New York now occurs in Leningrad; memories become distorted by imaginings. Were they ever really memories in the first place? By the end of this seamless stream of consciousness, there is no distinction between fantasy and reality, past and present. Markson (The Ballad of Dingus Magee) keeps the reader off balance and finally unsure of even the foundation of his character's madness perhaps she is alone only because she believes she is.
.....Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.
I don't read much fiction, but if this ever become available as an ebook, I hope someone will let me know. It sounds fascinating as all get-out!