http://blotter-paper.com/2009/01/29/lucius-shepards-life-during-wartime/ Wherein I free-associate after reading books. Thu, 17 May 2012 02:51:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://blotter-paper.com/2009/01/29/lucius-shepards-life-during-wartime/#comment-55 Thu, 02 Jul 2009 18:48:31 +0000 http://blotter-paper.com/?p=134#comment-55 Okay, but I’m a fan of both Latin American magical realism and sci-fi/fantasy, and I don’t think that I’m reading the book wrong, or with an insufficient grounding in its roots. Hundred Years of Solitude was weird in alot of places, but it was never really confusing. I think that Lucius Shepard just made some really strange choices when writing this story. And one of those choices was to write in such a way that ancillary detail was given the same weight as far more immediate and important details. I think the reason for that choice was to disorient the reader. And it worked, but I also found it really annoying.

]]> http://blotter-paper.com/2009/01/29/lucius-shepards-life-during-wartime/#comment-54 Thu, 02 Jul 2009 18:40:11 +0000 http://blotter-paper.com/?p=134#comment-54 You’re running into a genre collision — in LDW, Shephard was shepherding a collision between magical-realism and sci-fi/fantasy.

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