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Robert

Sounds very intriguing. I read Vandermeer's City of Saints and Madmen and found pieces of it to be devastatingly brilliant--particularly a history of Ambergris with such copious footnotes (longer often than the text itself, if I recall) that it became this huge satire on academia and the way history textbooks skew based on bias--and other parts that I found completely tedious, such as a meta section that I felt was far too "Look at me! I'm postmodern" for its own good. Because my opinion shifted so widely from story to story, I never continued with the series. But I've heard great things about "Shriek" and this one, from you. So maybe I should give him another shot.

Jared

I've heard some of his earlier work is a little... aggressively post-modern. I had picked up and put down Shriek earlier, but will now go back and try again.

Interestingly enough, I'm reading the VanderMeers' New Weird collection, and in his introduction, Jeff VanderMeer talks about how New Weird isn't supposed to contain 'postmodern techniques that undermine the surface reality of the text (or point out its artificiality)' (that there's a direct quote!).

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