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Originally Posted by caleb72
Today I started Mr Shivers by Robert Jackson Bennett. It's one of the many paperbacks in my bookshelf that has sat there unread for quite some time. Anyone read this before?
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This was really good. I don't know if any of you have seen the mini-series
Carnivale, but this book reminded me a bit of that show. The grim depression; the grim people in the grim depression; the grim adventures of the grime people in the grim depression etc...
There were clearly supernatural elements but you weren't bombarded with them and there was far too much fore-shadowing to say that this book had a twist at the end. Didn't bother me though.
There were a few editing mistakes (more on facts/logic than language), with crochet and knitting used interchangeably and a character suddenly being replaced with another in mid-paragraph. Not sure why errors like that wouldn't be picked up prior to release - but this is the world we live in I guess.
Just like
Carnivale, the meaning of what transpires is not always clear, with very deep speeches only hinting at purpose and rather fantastic pieces of narrative whose meaning was sometimes elusive but no less beautiful for that.
I'm now a goodly portion through
A Town Like Alice by Neville Shute. I'm very glad this book was chosen by the book club for February. Although the writing itself doesn't inspire me much, it's very easy to get swept away in the story.