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dr_ju's review
4.0
- I like to drink before I go to sleep… drink a lot of coffee before I go to sleep, so I can dream faster. I can dream like when they put a camera on a Indy 500, when they put a camera in the car, and it’s just whipping by like that, dream after dream after dream after dream. People ask me the next day 'what did you dre~am about?' and I say 'I can’t... I don't have time, I don't have time to tell you this.’
- Do you smoke?
- Only when I drink. Coffee.
- You know my mother?
- Do I know your mother?
- Yeah...?
- No, I don’t think so.
- Can you… can… can you hear me? It’s very loud here. I’d like to switch seats.
- …
- I liked it better over there, we should switch back. Was it Steve? Your name.
- Steve yes.
- I must go to the dentist, Steve, sorry. Nice to meet you.
- Don’t be late, nice to meet you too.
- So how did you like it?
- The coffee and cigarettes were great.
- No, the book?
- Ah, the book. This book? It’s a good book, you could see the writing improving compared with the first one and even throughout the second book you could see the focus shifting from individual to society as an individual.
- Yes, but you still get the punk-style dystopia that’s juggling with your senses and imagination, tricking you to enter a simulator of experimental sensations you never agreed to.
- That’s just at the beginning, I believe it’s more of a transition from the first book, so you don’t feel that much dissonance. May I have another cup of coffee?
- …
- I wish they had some scones too. I loved how the characters were street performers, it felt as the time I was 5 and they took me to the circus: the elephant man, the jester, the man-pretending-to-have-empathy, just instead it was a whole bunch of them.
- It wasn’t all that archaic in approach; the theme of fecundity-birth-ovary-cyst-rebirth is a great and solid addition, the looping stories and temporal acts…
- Just as we are now, I don’t remember if I had this coffee 10 minutes ago or I am about to have it later.
- I don’t get this fashion of ending a book with a cliffhanger. I need some closure, of course I’ll read the next one if I like the current one, but don’t end your book with a cliffhanger and make me wait another year for the rest… Could you pass the cream? It’s… it’s just unsatisfying.
- I really must go, I don’t know if the dentist will wait for me. What did you say about dreams?
- I should read a quote from the book, some will say this review it’s a nonsense otherwise.
- Not my dentist.
- Fine, just go already, don’t be late. I’ll read it to this wall.
- Nice to meet you.
- Don’t be late, nice to meet… Oh well. “The tourists hadn’t come here to meet people, to hear their stories, to engage in dialog. Rather they saw the bankdead as instantiations of “poverty” and “overcrowding”, as mere elements in a spectacle they had come to absorb for the satisfaction of feeling later that it had changed them, unable to grasp what palpable challenges they faced in their guide visit, no matter how well intentioned. “
Check, please.
- Do you smoke?
- Only when I drink. Coffee.
- You know my mother?
- Do I know your mother?
- Yeah...?
- No, I don’t think so.
- Can you… can… can you hear me? It’s very loud here. I’d like to switch seats.
- …
- I liked it better over there, we should switch back. Was it Steve? Your name.
- Steve yes.
- I must go to the dentist, Steve, sorry. Nice to meet you.
- Don’t be late, nice to meet you too.
- So how did you like it?
- The coffee and cigarettes were great.
- No, the book?
- Ah, the book. This book? It’s a good book, you could see the writing improving compared with the first one and even throughout the second book you could see the focus shifting from individual to society as an individual.
- Yes, but you still get the punk-style dystopia that’s juggling with your senses and imagination, tricking you to enter a simulator of experimental sensations you never agreed to.
- That’s just at the beginning, I believe it’s more of a transition from the first book, so you don’t feel that much dissonance. May I have another cup of coffee?
- …
- I wish they had some scones too. I loved how the characters were street performers, it felt as the time I was 5 and they took me to the circus: the elephant man, the jester, the man-pretending-to-have-empathy, just instead it was a whole bunch of them.
- It wasn’t all that archaic in approach; the theme of fecundity-birth-ovary-cyst-rebirth is a great and solid addition, the looping stories and temporal acts…
- Just as we are now, I don’t remember if I had this coffee 10 minutes ago or I am about to have it later.
- I don’t get this fashion of ending a book with a cliffhanger. I need some closure, of course I’ll read the next one if I like the current one, but don’t end your book with a cliffhanger and make me wait another year for the rest… Could you pass the cream? It’s… it’s just unsatisfying.
- I really must go, I don’t know if the dentist will wait for me. What did you say about dreams?
- I should read a quote from the book, some will say this review it’s a nonsense otherwise.
- Not my dentist.
- Fine, just go already, don’t be late. I’ll read it to this wall.
- Nice to meet you.
- Don’t be late, nice to meet… Oh well. “The tourists hadn’t come here to meet people, to hear their stories, to engage in dialog. Rather they saw the bankdead as instantiations of “poverty” and “overcrowding”, as mere elements in a spectacle they had come to absorb for the satisfaction of feeling later that it had changed them, unable to grasp what palpable challenges they faced in their guide visit, no matter how well intentioned. “
Check, please.
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