ARC d'X by Steve Erickson

[Nigel E. Richardson]

Erickson's books are hard going - you have to completely give 
yourself up to his writing and just accept what is happening, and 
hope it all ties together somehow at the end. They are incredibly 
dreamlike, 
and move by their own internal (and shifting) logic. At times they 
seem contrived, and at others almost like straight transcripts of 
dream images that couldn't mean anything to anyone but Erickson. I'm 
glad I read them, but I was pretty irritated several times in each 
except the first, DAYS BETWEEN STATIONS. However, there are moments 
in all his books that will stick in the mind forever, so I'd 
recommend him to anyone who hasn't tried his work.

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Nigel E. Richardson has a rather lovely home page, boys
and girls.  So get thee to SLUBBERDEGULLION ONLINE at
http://metro.turnpike.net/N/ner/ and bide a wee. Okay?
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