Through the Valley of the Nest of Spiders by Samuel Delany

[Bill, Moderator]

Through the Valley of the Nest of Spiders by Samuel R. Delany can now be pre-ordered at Amazon with a Nov. 2011 release.

It may be his gayest novel, but knowing Delany it will be about a lot of things.

[Robert]

I so can't wait to read this one -- it's been on my wish list for months. What with Delany being a god and all ...

[Bill, Moderator]

Nor I, Robert. I got the book the title was based on The Path to the Spider's Nest by Italo Calvino and someone, somewhere suggested reading Delany's Phallos beforehand. I am going to try to read these, if time permits.

[Bill, Moderator]

I received my copy of this on Tues, Apr 10, 2012. It's 804 pages with a random sampling falling on an explicit Gay sex scene! I've been reading Delany's books in publication order and cannot decide if I should continue or stop and read this???

[Bill, Moderator]

PS: It's available for the Kindle:

http://www.amazon.com/Through-Valley-...

[Lawrence]

I lived with this book for the last two weeks and will miss it. I haven't read too many other books by Delany but will seek them out. This was a masterpiece. A strange sometimes shocking and gross masterpiece, but truly a brilliant moving work.

[Robert]

The word "transgressive" keeps turning up in reviews.

[Lawrence]

Kernos wrote: "Nor I, Robert. I got the book the title was based on The Path to the Spider's Nest by Italo Calvino and someone, somewhere suggested reading Delany's Phallos beforehand. I am going to try to read ..."

I think the title is actually a reference to a scene from the movie "King Kong."

[Bill, Moderator]

Lawrence wrote: "Kernos wrote: "...I think the title is actually a reference to a scene from the movie "King Kong."

How does it relate?

[Lawrence]

Kernos wrote: "Lawrence wrote: "Kernos wrote: "...I think the title is actually a reference to a scene from the movie "King Kong."

How does it relate?"

In one of the first scenes in the book, someone says that life is like a trip through the valley of the nest of spiders and describes the (possibly deleted?) scene in "King Kong."