DHALGREN

[Nigel E. Richardson]

I read Dhalgren back in the summer of '76 when I was 18 and living
in a new city and it seemed incredibly powerful at the time, but I
doubt very much if I could get through more than a couple of chapters 
without getting totally irritated now. I don't think Delany is a very 
good writer and lately has tended to hide his clumsiness behind 
secondhand post-structuralist wank (anyone who writes fantasy 
novels with multiple appendices is not my kind of guy). 

His early works are still pretty cool though --- especially 
the stories in the DRIFTGLASS collection.

Nigel
(IJ on hold, reading TPR instead)

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