Amnesiascope

[Chris Sweet]

Schmidt, Dan wrote:
> 
> Chris Sweet sez:
> 
> | The new Steve Erickson novel is out and it is a small
> | one, weighing in at 225 pages. There is a TRP blurb but
> | it is a recycled one from "Days Between Stations".
> 
> Unfortunately, the novel is not very good, in my opinion
> easily his weakest.  If you haven't gotten into Erickson
> yet I would start with anything else.  My fave is Rubicon
> Beach but that might be just because it was the first one I
> read.
> 
> Dan Schmidt  |  dfan at lglass.com  |  http://www2.lglass.com/~dfan
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>   Next show  :  May 23 @ T.T. the Bear's


I am now about 60 pages in and I can say that it is just average.
I don't know if it is because it really is just average or
because all his other stuff is so great that this pales in comparison.
Its a pseudo-autobiographical novel....sort of like Vollmann's
"Butterfly Stories". 

My Erickson faves are "Tours of The Black Clock" and the (sort of)
Non-fiction "Leap Year".

chris


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