apiphile replied to your post: apiphile replied to your post: LOVED Your Lawrence…
I THINK YOU SHOULD QUOTE THE MANNING/PRIOR SCENE OKAYa) yes good
b) yesterday i read a review of the ghost road by someone who had not read either regeneration or the eye in the door and who thought it was bad.
I actually read this twice to make sure I was reading it correctly. They what?
I WAS FUCKING AGHAST, MAN. First of all, who reads the third book in a trilogy without having read the first two? Who does that? Secondly, they said it was about Prior having sex all over the place, that the diary/epistolary exchanges between Rivers and Prior were ill-managed, and. like. I’m sorry it was too… complex for you?
WELL IF THEY’D STIRRED THEIR LAZY ARSES TO READ THE FIRST TWO BOOKS LIKE A SANE HUMAN THEY MIGHT HAVE UNDERSTOOD WHY THAT WAS RELEVANT FFS.
I don’t even understand why you’d read the third book first. That uh, kind of spoils the point of a series? Also, how the fuck do you even read those books without being blown away by the fine balance of description to imagination, the subsumed characterisation, the viciousness and warmth and sadness of it all? ARE THEY SPECIAL IN THE LITERARY BIT OR SOMETHING?
AND THE WORST PART was that they wrote it like they were blowing the lid off the Pat Barker thing, like no one else in the world had these special thoughts. Which is fair, I guess, because no one else in the world reads the third book in a trilogy without having read the first two! Oh my god!
