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Subject: Re: shadow of the torturer and thomas co - (nf)
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Date: Tue, 21-Jun-83 17:14:58 EDT
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I seem to have had a similar response to SotT.  It took me about  3  months
to  finish  the book, but the first quarter of the book took all but 4 days
of it.  It was not that I didn't like the book, but it is an  involved  and
thought  provoking book and you have to be in the proper frame of mind.  If
you don't feel like involving yourself in the book, it just  doesn't  work.
I  have  a  similar response to movies: some days I feel like Fellini, some
days I feel like the Marx Brothers.

One thing that I noticed (someone out there want to back me  up  on  this?)
when  reading  it  was that the feel of the New Sun books was very close to
the works of Kafka.  As it turned out, I was reading some of Kafka's  short
works  about  the time I read SotT, so it might just be a reaction to that,
but it almost felt  like  he  was  using  a  work  like  The  Castle  as  a
philosphical base.  There is also a lot of classical literature entertwined
into the fabric of the story, especially the Greek and Roman mythologies.

I haven't read the Covenant yet. Maybe I should... Is it really a good work?
-- 
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