Important note to self

[nonionay]

On seizure-riffic days, don't read seizure-riffic books like Dhalgren.

Great. Now I have to find something to read that's not going to take my mind to strange, liminal places.

Comments

[bolddeciever.livejournal.com]

Ahh, Dhalgren... I'll never get that month and a half back...

(Actually I quite enjoyed it, even if I couldn't necessarily tell you what I thought of it, even the most general impression, without reading it three or four more times and taking extensive notes. Another book that gave me the same feeling, if in a package that went down a little smoother, is Lethem's Amnesia Moon.)

[criada.livejournal.com]

I love it. I think it helps that I know a fair amount about Delany, so I know what his strange obsession with ugly hands is about. Stuff like that. Check out The Jewel-Hinged Jaw, his book on writing and literature.

[mikigarrison.livejournal.com]

Speaking of liminal, have you read Child of a Rainless Year? :D

[criada.livejournal.com]

No. What's that one about?

[mikigarrison.livejournal.com]

Only one of the most awesome books ever, and it's about liminal spaces, and art, and some gorgeously integrated regional history.

Reviews here, including mine:
http://www.librarything.com/work/98995/reviews/2340781