I totally want this book
Anyone want to buy it for me?
Atlanta Nights.
There's a summary/explanation of the book here. My excitement about this book can be explained by their summary:
The prose is an education all by itself. The chapter numbering has to be seen to be believed. Watch out for the two wildly disparate chapters written by two different authors who were independently working from the same segment of plot outline. Then there are the characters who die in one chapter and wander back into the action in a later one, and the characters that idly change race, gender, and motivation (it was a very sparse plot outline). Space, time, and causality are trifled with shamelessly. The especially beloved and completely incoherent Chapter 34 was written by a text generator that had been fed some earlier chapters.
Even reading the description had me tearing up, I was laughing so hard.
EDIT: I did a search and there's a library system in Washington (state) that actually owns 4 of these! I'm doing an Inter-Library Loan. One of the copies is even checked out! (I hope they're a free lender...)
Atlanta Nights.
There's a summary/explanation of the book here. My excitement about this book can be explained by their summary:
The prose is an education all by itself. The chapter numbering has to be seen to be believed. Watch out for the two wildly disparate chapters written by two different authors who were independently working from the same segment of plot outline. Then there are the characters who die in one chapter and wander back into the action in a later one, and the characters that idly change race, gender, and motivation (it was a very sparse plot outline). Space, time, and causality are trifled with shamelessly. The especially beloved and completely incoherent Chapter 34 was written by a text generator that had been fed some earlier chapters.
Even reading the description had me tearing up, I was laughing so hard.
EDIT: I did a search and there's a library system in Washington (state) that actually owns 4 of these! I'm doing an Inter-Library Loan. One of the copies is even checked out! (I hope they're a free lender...)