Comments on: It’s What He Would Have Wanted

By: Martin

Martin — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 11:18:08 +0000

Right, I've read The Part About The Critics now which means Chance has to post about and then we can all get on with the next bit.

By: Adam Roberts

Adam Roberts — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 12:55:22 +0000

I must say I like the way prison-bar shadows artfully fall across the dismembered artefact in your second photo, there.

By: danhartland

danhartland — Sun, 18 Apr 2010 21:23:37 +0000

Brilliant!

Need to get round to part two this month, if I can…

By: The Fantasizer

The Fantasizer — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 17:28:10 +0000

Ohhhhh myyyy GOD, such savagery, barbarism, this is murder!!!

By: chance

chance — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 17:43:34 +0000

That’s definitely the reason I haven’t finished Wolf Hall – too big to hold. (On the other hand, the reason why I haven’t finished 2666 is because I have a half written post about the first section that I want to post before I start the second novella.)

By: Martin

Martin — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 14:08:52 +0000

I’m not actively hunting for new opportunities to practice my butchery but it was a liberating experience. I should probably try re-binding as the next step.

The worst thing about reading The Ascent Of Wonder – yes, even worse than some of the stories – is that it is actually physically painful. After reading a single story my thumb hurts and my vestigal wing flap is red raw. I couldn’t imagine chopping that up though.

By: Nick H.

Nick H. — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 12:47:17 +0000

Hah. Well done. I know of at least one case where someone split a hardcover copy of 2666 and each of the five individual parts properly rebound. And I think when Dan was moaning about 2666 being too long, I suggested to him that he cut it into bits so he’d be reading five shorter books instead.

It’s not something I’d do myself (seeing as, with my own books, I’m in the ‘The Book is a Sacred Relic and should not be damaged!’ camp), but more power to you and the others who do. Maybe in the future I’ll change my stance – most recently I read the second volume of Octavian Nothing and found that was almost uncomfortably large to hold and read.