"exhausted by Mark Z Danielewski's dense and overly-complicated tome"

[jd]

I saw Danielewski read tonight.  It sounds like an interesting book
for someone whose cup of tea it is, I don't think it's mine though.
He seemed like he was a nice guy, and he also indicated that there
might be some sort of collaboration with Poe on this new book as well,
just not as well timed as Haunted / House of Leaves

On 9/26/06, the Robot Vegetable <veg at dvandva.org> wrote:
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> > Yup.  It's all balanced on that signifier that doesn't
> > signify, the Tristero (whose muted post-horn is my
> > only tattoo, on my left arm.  The artist who did it
> > was a bit disappointed that it was so simple.  I think
> > it cost 30 bucks.)  Oedipa is, brilliantly IMHO,
> > stripped of primal plots, and left with signifiers
> > that don't signify and an abscence that is telegraphed
> > by the novel's teasing last line.  Pynchon is right in
> > complaining that it's a story based less on character
> > than on some structural approach, but like the best
> > experiments of Georges Perec, it is an excersize in
> > style that becomes, in its telling, a humane tale.
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>         This sounds a lot like Mosley's _Accident_, wherein
> the atmosphere gives out that something nasty happened, but
> ultimately, there's no there there.
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