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perhaps isn't aware that books get quite the same amount of disection on the book thread.
Only not really. I mean, where do they? Murakami gets a read, but it's not generally individual threads per novel or anything. We're kinda nowist here.
I like Phil Roth, he's a dirty wee cunt. I like Kovey quite a lot, not just 'cos I read a bit of his Batman book, (and despite the idea I have that he considers me part of the squealing gaycream joypant brigade) and I think we should all stop talking about him after I've done this bit, following. Takes more'n one person to derail a topic, ya kno. (Also, grassing the boy up, because he wrote something about Barbelith with the same username elsewhere is a bit much; hands up if you never griped about this website, verbally or otherwise - thought so.)
So, books v. comics. Hum. Richard Morgan's Altered Carbon is a bit better than his Black Widow #1 anyway. I find it a bit hard to get jazzed about contemporary mainstream/'realist' literature, particularly British books - of which I think Trainspotting was prolly the last to have any kind of immediacy and verve. Also, there's the cumulative effect of the novel; did Kovacs read the first chapter after his copy of Klarion #1 or pages 103-119, in which case I'd suggest, say, #2 or #3 would make for a better comparison. I only know the premise of The Plot..., but I do prefer 'cordoned Puritan witch-village' to 'Nazis won WWII' as a whole, given that the latter occurs to most post Standard Grade/GCSE/whatever History pupils.
Now, attempting to shunt train back on track, the comic. Was good, but not as good as a) fishnets or b) shiner. I wonder if Klarion combine combine with Tweekl like the Horigal draaga/submissionary gestalt? That'd be nice.
The Grundies gave's a good, bleak laff. The Kit-Kat wrapper reminded me of the premise to a film called The Gods Must Be Crazy, S. African I think, in which a coke can falls from an aeroplane on a Bushman village.
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