Comments | greygirlbeast: Reading Silk (part one)

greygirlbeast

Reading Silk (part one)

Mar 19, 2007 11:20

So, yesterday we made it all the way through Chapter Four ("Yer Funeral") of Silk. It was a little annoying to discover that the photostat I'd been sent was missing several pages near the beginning, but it's nothing that isn't easily remedied. Anyway, as of the end of the day yesterday, this is how the Zokutou page meter looks:

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threshold, alabama bound, dancy, doh, spyder, moa, "the white woman", silk, connections, tfoc

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mevennen March 19 2007, 16:40:58 UTC

I started reading D of H today and I think it's excellent.

greygirlbeast March 19 2007, 19:23:12 UTC

I started reading D of H today and I think it's excellent.

I'm very pleased to hear that you're enjoying it! :-)

derekcfpegritz March 19 2007, 17:42:19 UTC

God, I love Silk. One of my favorite novels ever--mainly because it's just so surreal and weird...and because I knew a girl from Pittsburgh who was Spyder Baxter incarnate, at least from a visual/physical perspective.

unknownbinaries March 19 2007, 19:13:07 UTC

Hope this isn't too invasive of me, but your 'white woman' reminds me of Graves' White Goddess. If you've never read it, you might want to check it out.

greygirlbeast March 19 2007, 19:22:08 UTC

If you've never read it, you might want to check it out.

I haven't, but it's been on the too-read list since I finished Hutton's The Triumph of the Moon.

jtglover March 20 2007, 01:00:06 UTC

I'm looking forward to reading the revised version of Silk. At the same time, I'm glad to have a copy of the Roc edition, as I thought the "compounderations" played a big stylistic role in the unsane tone of the whole book.

Wish I could make it to the reading! If anyone takes photos/videos, would you post the links?

greygirlbeast March 20 2007, 05:59:32 UTC

If anyone takes photos/videos, would you post the links?

We'll see. Lately, I'm a little photo shy.

At the same time, I'm glad to have a copy of the Roc edition, as I thought the "compounderations" played a big stylistic role in the unsane tone of the whole book.

I deliberated a great deal as to how much I was going to alter this text. But in the end, I decided it needs to read a little more like MoA, and that many of the "compounderations" which once pleased my ear fall flat and ugly. "Plasticslick," for example. I'm not taking them all out. Just a lot of them.

jtglover March 20 2007, 10:46:22 UTC

Hey, don't get me wrong -- I'm looking forward to the new version. Always interesting to see how an author's changed stylistically... And, of course, I hope you know I wasn't complaining about changes. Frankly I think it's nice you tell readers in advance about changes; means we have something to be on the lookout for.