Ob. Lit. Crit.

[digitaldiscipline]

Just started Black House, and my initial reaction (after having just re-read The Gunslinger over the weekend) is that it's wordy as fuck.

perhaps reading a draft of a screenplay for Neuromancer has my literary preferences skewed towards the brisk and austere (feel free to peruse the last half dozen entries here for my own stylistic wibblings), but i want to reach through the cover of the book and whack Straub & King's heads together and shout, "GET THE FUCK ON WITH IT."

meh. . .

Comments

[etcet.livejournal.com]

isn't buick 8 just a reheat of christine? (which, for my money, pretty much blew goats). possessed car causes evil, gifs at eleven?

[lil-m-moses.livejournal.com]

Very much no. Buick 8 is almost a sci-fi story. The car is not actually a car, but more a gateway to a completely other place masquerading as an almost-car. The entire book but the last two chapters or so is set as a storytelling flashback of a police troop's experiences with this car, from the finding and through much weirdness. It's not so much horror as terror and scifi and just a story of people. It probably shares more commonality of theme with Dreamcatcher or Talisman/Black House than with Christine. Oh, and for the record, Black House does get better, but it takes a while to get there.

[etcet.livejournal.com]

ahhh. . . sorta like "Driving John Malkovich's Wardrobe." hehehehe.