Weaveworld by Clive Barker. We were packing our apartment to move to our new house and this was on the shelf. For a 700 page "horror" novel, this is a breezy read. This is also the type of novel that can lead to spontaneous conversations with strangers in public places.
Body of Evidence by Patricia Cornwell. Since my library was (is) still packed up in boxes, I stopped into a used bookstore. Alas, "used books" in this case meant mostly romance novels. This is the second Scarpetta thriller, one I read in '97 or '98, and like the first in the series it features a featureless killer who is only revealed in time for the final showdown.
The Silent Cry (1967 - English translation 1974) by Kenzaburo Oe. A Japanese author who won the Nobel Prize for Literature a few years ago. I would say this is a fair to poor translation, there are a number of grammatical problems and mangled idioms. Perhaps I should just say it is a utilitarian translation.
Haruki Murakami seems to have been influenced a great deal by Oe, as do the films by Hayao Miyazaki.
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Posted by B Rickman at March 19, 2009 11:58 PM