Review: An Exciting Find - post postmodern at its best
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 03 5, 2013
The Amazon product page for this book is worthless as an introduction to or description of what you'll find when you download this book and read it. Maybe this will help. Here is a more or less randomly selected excerpt:"The novel will consist of many parts. Each of these is called a chapter. The chapters will be very small. Each chapter will focus on one, and only one, aspect of the novel. The chapters will be short because I do not have much time. I can only write in short bursts and I am easily bored."Now, I have loved this stuff since the 60's, from William S. Burroughs on the left coast to Donald Barthelme in New York, by way of Texas. It's all called "postmodern", but since the early 70's we've all been heading toward post-postmodernism anyway. If you find this kind of fiction at all agreeable, you should try some Lichtenberg.For what it's worth this seems a little bit old school, and I mean that in a good way. A lot of the current work is too showy and too cute-clever. A lot of it is navel gazing and lame, maybe even spineless. Lichtenberg's work has a little more muscle. Even as he playfully suggests, over and over, that you are in charge of the reading experience as the reader, he is actually in total control of what's going on and of what you are experiencing. You are being entertained, educated and manipulated. You are being experimented on, but it will feel good, (like a lab experiment that activates the pleasure centers of your brain.)But all of this is way too heavy. This is meant on at least some level to be fun and it is. There are some marvelous turns of phrase; some playful deception; a lot of joy and a bit of subtle aggression. There is much here to think about or to just appreciate. This is a great find.I would certainly encourage you to take a look at this and see what you think. Please note that I found this book while browsing Amazon Kindle freebies. I have no connection at all to the author or the publisher of this book.