I have the Solenoid audiobook, does that count? 😅 Haven't listened, though. Backlog! Books can be magical, and you built up such high expectations, t'is dangerous! ;)
I agree - fucking sensational. Something about the way you recommended it to me...I knew I had to read it. Didn't matter that no bookstores in London seemed to carry it. This made me more intrigued. Of course, this was remedied by an easy online order with a more difficult task of fitting the book in my carry-on from London back to Basel.
I devoured this book. I sat with this book. Sometimes I felt Cartarescu was seeing into my mind. Other times, I wondered at the creation of that strange mind through his life in Communist Bucharest. (I don't mean strange in a negative way.)
I'm leaving it there for now, because there will be something coming, though I/we don't know what yet. Thank you, my friend, for introducing it to me.
This recommendation has the highest persuasion to information ratio I have ever seen. There is almost no explanation as to what the book is about, and yet, I find myself almost irresistibly compelled to read it AT ONCE. The moment you compared words to a current-filled wire, I could feel the kryptonite dissolving my engineering heart...How...what is happening...
Wait, first… you’re a magician?!!!! So many fabulous metaphors from that world you can draw upon in your writing. (My nephew was obsessed with magic for years and became quite good….though maybe I’m just a proud auntie.)
I love hearing you swoon over a book. I have a few of those and it is pure magic (there’s that word again) when they slip into our lives and never will we ever be the same. 🤍
Isn’t it amazing, thrilling even, when coincidences like that occur, when synchronicity ripples across your world. Chills indeed. The right book at the right time. Congratulations. And thanks for another engrossing post. Hugs dear fellow. All the best. 🤗🤗
Oh Mr. Slake now you’re just showing off. What a delicious feast of words you’ve strung together in this homage. I see more and more of the scientist in you revealed. The footnotes alone!I do hope the author is deserving of such loving praise. I’ve added the book to my list!
You might just have a way of worming your thoughts into mine as now I am dead curious as to what this book is. Thanks for adding books to my ever growing list of to reads.
Also love the bit about being afraid to share it, as the novelty might wear off, I totally get you.
Isn't it the most exciting thing in the world when a bunch of synchronicities and strangenesses all gather around a particular thing..?! It's like entering into conversation with some languageless alien that's encouraging something without being able to speak to you, and what could be more fun than that! Obviously, I want to read the book now. Though I'm mindful of the fact that a part of me would be disappointed if / when I didn't get any wordless alien visitations, so...
Thank you for the footnote, I got a couple of paragraphs in assuming there was some kind of Terry tomfoolery afoot before scrolling down and seeing it in fact were true! You're an international man of mystery, Nathan...
I have the Solenoid audiobook, does that count? 😅 Haven't listened, though. Backlog! Books can be magical, and you built up such high expectations, t'is dangerous! ;)
Did you read Albert Camus?
I agree - fucking sensational. Something about the way you recommended it to me...I knew I had to read it. Didn't matter that no bookstores in London seemed to carry it. This made me more intrigued. Of course, this was remedied by an easy online order with a more difficult task of fitting the book in my carry-on from London back to Basel.
I devoured this book. I sat with this book. Sometimes I felt Cartarescu was seeing into my mind. Other times, I wondered at the creation of that strange mind through his life in Communist Bucharest. (I don't mean strange in a negative way.)
I'm leaving it there for now, because there will be something coming, though I/we don't know what yet. Thank you, my friend, for introducing it to me.
"This book has infected me" Haha! I love this. It's a little creepy sometimes the way they follow us around echoing.
This recommendation has the highest persuasion to information ratio I have ever seen. There is almost no explanation as to what the book is about, and yet, I find myself almost irresistibly compelled to read it AT ONCE. The moment you compared words to a current-filled wire, I could feel the kryptonite dissolving my engineering heart...How...what is happening...
Wait, first… you’re a magician?!!!! So many fabulous metaphors from that world you can draw upon in your writing. (My nephew was obsessed with magic for years and became quite good….though maybe I’m just a proud auntie.)
I love hearing you swoon over a book. I have a few of those and it is pure magic (there’s that word again) when they slip into our lives and never will we ever be the same. 🤍
Serendipitous… perhaps the magic and melding happened?
“I clutched that book to my chest each day, hoping I could meld the principles with my skin.”
and of course now I have to track down this book!
This one is on my to read list already…wondering if you had mentioned it in passing somewhere else?
Isn’t it amazing, thrilling even, when coincidences like that occur, when synchronicity ripples across your world. Chills indeed. The right book at the right time. Congratulations. And thanks for another engrossing post. Hugs dear fellow. All the best. 🤗🤗
Borges Book of Sand. Read a story and his words seep deep In subconscious to provide you with a dream world mover experienced previously.
Oh Mr. Slake now you’re just showing off. What a delicious feast of words you’ve strung together in this homage. I see more and more of the scientist in you revealed. The footnotes alone!I do hope the author is deserving of such loving praise. I’ve added the book to my list!
You might just have a way of worming your thoughts into mine as now I am dead curious as to what this book is. Thanks for adding books to my ever growing list of to reads.
Also love the bit about being afraid to share it, as the novelty might wear off, I totally get you.
Isn't it the most exciting thing in the world when a bunch of synchronicities and strangenesses all gather around a particular thing..?! It's like entering into conversation with some languageless alien that's encouraging something without being able to speak to you, and what could be more fun than that! Obviously, I want to read the book now. Though I'm mindful of the fact that a part of me would be disappointed if / when I didn't get any wordless alien visitations, so...
Thank you for the footnote, I got a couple of paragraphs in assuming there was some kind of Terry tomfoolery afoot before scrolling down and seeing it in fact were true! You're an international man of mystery, Nathan...
Well THAT is one hell of a recommendation, Mister Slake - Disclaimer noted ;)