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Originally Posted by kennyc
It's all about narrative voice.
Edgar Rice Burroughs was a master.
Dickens was a master.
E.L.Doctorow is damn good
Flowery descriptive language in novels puts me to sleep. It should be short and reserved for poetry, but Cormac McCarthy throws it in in such a way as to create magic.
Loren Eiseley's science (and other essays) ARE poetry.
Dhalgren is #1 on my list of SF novels.
I don't care for mysteries.
I've tried to read Neuromancer many times and always end up throwing it across the room before the second chapter - same with Ulysses by Joyce. Same with anything recent from Neil Stephenson.
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I've yet to read Cormac McCarthy, and have never heard of Loren Eisely (call me a cretin if you will) and I pretty well went off straight SF 30+ years ago, and switched to mysteries, although I will read anything that is lying around rather than not read at all. I thought Neuromancer was ok IIRC (can you say cretin 16 times without catching a breath?) . I did try to read Ulysses and failed
What book would you recommend by Cormac McCarthy?
Helen