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Should have read this a long time ago; time to fix that

Ergens in de 600 pagina's van dit boek zit een van de beste boeken ooit in het Nederlands. Geef me een stanleymes en drie weken en misschien kan ik hem voor je vinden.

This is the kind of scifi I wish I could write

The deal that Delaney makes with his readers is the same as Thomas Pynchons: he's not going to give a fuck about if you keep up, but if you let him cook, he's going to show you some shit you've never even thought of before in your life. The effect is a book that I already like talking about more than I do reading it. Partly just to compare notes - what did you find? - and partly because it has some wild ideas

This is so much beter than the Peter Marshall one it's frankly ridiculous

Hahaha what the fuck dit is amazing

Nog niet helemaal zeker of dit echt een goed boek is of dat ik exact het publiek hiervoor ben, maar dat gaan we snel genoeg merken

V. racist, and the style is easy to mock, but I don't know - there's something almost radical, in this day and age, about lines like

You whose hearts are pure and simple
Who have faith in God and Nature
Who believe that in all ages
Every human heart is human

You wish Longfellow did believe that; he can't, as they say, look past his own position

Veel Nederlandstalige sci-fi is er niet. Let's go!

Reader: this book is bug-fuck insane

You know those books that are clearly brilliant but also exhausting as all hell to read?

YOU WILL NOT DEFEAT ME WILLIAM JAMES

Indulging.

Als een debuutroman Satan als personage heeft dan ga ik het lezen zo simpel ben ik

Time to get really depressed!

YOU LIKE WORLDBUILDING MOTHERFUCKER CAUSE BY GOD I'VE GOT IT

This guy writes really good sentences and really confusing stories. Maybe this is just me not being used to Nigerian names and that making it sometimes difficult to remember characters, but still: this is a massive cast & set of intrigues for one book

This is a book that knows that it is: a smart novel about very dumb people. It reminds me a bit of a less-bitter version of The Day of the Locust, or perhaps of just The Simpsons with intellectuals. Good stuff

Not only is Paul Beatty simple the man, it turns out he has always been - and quite likely might be until his dying breath - the man.

Just started this, but good Lord is the writing gorgeous in this. Every sentence is written like it belongs in a poem.

Well, this... is something else. Eerste indruk: dit doet met Nederland en het in-Nederland-gesproken-Nederlands doet wat Lanoye heeft gedaan met Vlaanderen en Vlaams in De Monstertrilogie. Als dit zo doorgaat kan het wel eens één van mijn favoriete NL romans ooit worden. Langere recensie volgt op De Reactor.

Philip K. Dicks work exist on a spectrum, I've found. On the one hand, there's his early work, which is a combination of hard-boiler pulp stories and Asimov's gee-shucks, boy's own adventure type of wonder sci-fi. Then the sixties happened, and after enough LSD to make a sperm whale pick up the sitar, he let go of any sort of well-structured plot and wrote loosely, funnily, and still very sexist. This book is that.