[UA] Inspirational books (was RE: Great and secret show)

[Gareth Hanrahan]

> >>Let me DISrecommend Donna Tartt's _The Secret History_; the only really
> >interesting bit is the quote about Dionysus Ken lifted for a Suppressed
> >Transmission.
> >
> >Well, let me rerecommend it, then. It's got tons of UA fiddly bits in it:
> >psychological breakdown, normalcy slightly out of wack, people taking
> >religious texts way out of context and doing stuff horribly wrong, etc.
> >Plus, it's a good read.
>
> Eh, I thought it was okay -- not bad, not great.  For me, the ultimate
> criticism of "The Secret History" has to be the guy who says (I'm
> paraphrasing) "Tartt spends the whole book building around this grotty
knot
> of violence and kinky sex, and then never shows us the sex.  Thanks Donna.
> Thanks a lot."

Heh. I'm in the middle of some awful Templar book which spent ages telling
me how much the Cathars hated sex, then turned around and claimed they were
in on the secrets of the Big Biblical Sex Cult.

> >>About to start Danielewski's _House of Leaves_, mainly on the strength
of
> >listmembers' recommendations.  The typographical tricks look like they
may
> >get old fast, though.
>
> I put in an interlibrary loan request, though the Amazon review that
likens
> it to the single worst book I've ever read completely -- DF Wallace's
> "Infinite Jest" -- makes me very nervous indeed.

I've read House of Leaves twice. I found it very interesting, and it really
creeped me out in parts. I'm putting together a campaign inspired by it.
However, I still have no idea what the hell it's about, what half of it
means, if it's any good or not, or if I liked it....

> -G
Gar
http://www.mytholder.f2s.com



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