tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6959297.post114581609630895037..comments2024-03-21T07:37:30.475-04:00Comments on Light reading: Alan WarnerJenny Davidsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02295436498255927522noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6959297.post-1145973748824494022006-04-25T10:02:00.000-04:002006-04-25T10:02:00.000-04:00I read Morven Caller and I did enjoy it, though it...I read Morven Caller and I did enjoy it, though it lost me towards the end when it went into a more surrealistic mode. I have to admit I found the main character eventually unsympathetic, having identified with her for about the first half or two-thirds.<BR/><BR/>The reason I actually read this book was because someone gave me his follow-up while I was in hospital. I read the follow-up, whose title I forget exactly but it was something like "these strange lands". And I am very ashamed to admit I did not understand a word of it. It was about people on an island, but I read pages without knowing what I was reading. Someone said, maybe on the blurb, that the book was supposed to represent a drug experience. But I just could not make head or tail of it.<BR/><BR/>Now, reading your comments, I feel very stupid. I just could not appreciate or understand this book. I don't mean this in a negative, critical way, but literally. I could not process the information in a meaningful (to me) way. I found this a very disturbing experience, and not one familiar to me -- I think I understand most things I come across in life, beign of reasonably average intelligence. What is wrong with my brain?Maxine Clarkehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06628509319992204770noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6959297.post-1145926428218465882006-04-24T20:53:00.000-04:002006-04-24T20:53:00.000-04:00Alan Warner is, to use a word my mother likes, 'dr...Alan Warner is, to use a word my mother likes, 'dreamy'. He also has lovely manners when he's being interviewed. <BR/>When I was covering the Edinburgh Book Festival for a free Fest paper back in 2002 I actually wasn't allowed to interview him, as my lit.crush on him was so severe that they didn't think I'd manage it. I watched him in a panel on modern scottish fiction, though, and decided that it was a very worthy crush indeed!<BR/>MarinaMarinahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16387553977006099896noreply@blogger.com