Greg S’s Reviews > Old God's Time > Status Update

Does a story need causality or can it be a long collection of thoughts?

Tom is either gullible or I’ve become cynical. Either way, there’s no data for either of us to draw any conclusions.

Suddenly, it’s a thriller.

A five-year-old would not say it like that.

This book is like reading the brain of someone with ADHD.

Aside: when you tell someone you’ll live in Japan, they wail and weep over the long distance. Then when you live 2 hrs away, they only mildly grumble, despite the fact that they visit you exactly the same amount if you lived those 18 hrs away.

Sure. Why not add some homophobia?

“The thing he remembered—or was it something that June told him because he couldn’t remember?—the thing he remembered or maybe not…”

Horrible stuff, obviously, but the writing style, with the long expositions and descriptions, give it a kind of emotional distance, like I’m reading a newspaper article.

It’s a good thing I read treasure island, or else I would not understand the last page and a half.