tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2856547151523423474.post3208854279764711282..comments2024-03-12T12:38:23.542-04:00Comments on The Kind of Face You Hate: The Kind of Face You Slash - Day 5: A Whole Churchful of Open Coffinsbill r.http://www.blogger.com/profile/17748572205731857892noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2856547151523423474.post-63671801978231802912012-10-06T00:17:06.765-04:002012-10-06T00:17:06.765-04:00Actually, GIVE ME MY MONEY is NOT a bad idea...Actually, GIVE ME MY MONEY is NOT a bad idea...lrobhubbardhttp://mimezine.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2856547151523423474.post-84584244029825148732012-10-05T20:57:23.735-04:002012-10-05T20:57:23.735-04:00Glad you generally liked it, but I would highly re...Glad you generally liked it, but I would highly recommend the Blackwater series as some of his very best work.Taidanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09445905825356339877noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2856547151523423474.post-54352217599747636502012-10-05T16:44:39.489-04:002012-10-05T16:44:39.489-04:00On the contrary. Please remove those quote marks.On the contrary. Please remove those quote marks.Noumenonhttp://andrewleonhudson.wordpress.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2856547151523423474.post-33960610453991043992012-10-05T13:58:53.871-04:002012-10-05T13:58:53.871-04:00No, PONTYPOOL CHANGES EVERYTHING is, if it's a...No, PONTYPOOL CHANGES EVERYTHING is, if it's anything definable, more like a picaresque, I think. Maybe? But THE AMULET literally has chapters that tell more or less entire stories about characters we either barely knew or didn't know at all until the chapter began, and who were dead by chapter's end. These chapters are very nearly self contained, and don't have the flow of a journey that I remember being an element of PONTYPOOL.<br /><br />Also, "thanks" in quotes? Didn't you like them?bill r.https://www.blogger.com/profile/17748572205731857892noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2856547151523423474.post-74226706119162240452012-10-05T11:55:50.884-04:002012-10-05T11:55:50.884-04:00"In any case, what's good about this stuf...<i>"In any case, what's good about this stuff, or interesting when it's not quite good, is that these sections of the book -- and there are several -- do very nearly function as short stories. Short stories that, if they were stand alone, would end quite abruptly and shockingly, even nonsensically, but still about different people in different environments, facing sudden horror. Plus, within a linear novel it might not have seemed feasible to McDowell to expand on these in the way that he might have liked to."</i><br /><br />Is this in any way similar to the effect of <i>Pontypool Changes Everything</i>? My enduring impression of that is one of meandering incidents linked by a general situation, even though while reading they often occur without obvious connection towards a strong central plot.<br /><br />You are, of course, directly responsible for me having read it at all, not to mention watching the film. So, "thanks".Noumenonhttp://andrewleonhudson.wordpress.com/noreply@blogger.com