Monday, 16 June 2014

Riddley Walker - Russell Hoban



The attention required to deciphering the action will be the point at which you commit and become invested, or bail out and hate it. By forcing the reader to concentrate so intently, the book provides a reading experience I'm yet to come across so far; full immersion is required to fully follow the plot. I appreciated this aspect of the novel more than any other, by forcing me to slow down, and zone out of everything else going on around me, I could lose myself in this grim future reality, coming alive through the remains of a language familiar enough to understand, but alien enough to puzzle me.

Read from January 04 to 07, 2014

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