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paranoia@feddit.dk 1 day agoI tend to read books about religion and history, so there isn’t really a lot of breaking the mold there unfortunately.
Gormenghast and Neuromancer are the kind of heavy atmospheric and descriptive fiction I like, but they don’t really deviate from standard punctuation or presentation in any way.
Fair enough- I had never heard of either of those before. However, I know Mervyn Peake has been a heavy inspiration of modern fiction. I may have to give the Gormenghast series a try- just super daunting.
Anyways, thanks for indulging my curiosity. Just had time to kill. Have a good one!
Gormenghast… I read a translation si I wouldn’t know about grammar rules, but it definitely broke storytelling rules. The style of the descriptions, how description and action blend into one another, how decay becomes almost a tangible presence through the pages… a unique book by any means
BasedMaquisEddington@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
Doesn’t Gormenghast have that dinner scene that’s a massive stream of consciousness curveball?
paranoia@feddit.dk 1 day ago
Well, I forgot about that. Looking at it, I’d say it was a part that I managed to get through quite quickly, since it wasn’t just describing the texture of a wall for a full page.
BasedMaquisEddington@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
Nobody captures a wall in its decaying magnificence like he does. He makes the ugly beautiful.