Or, from Stephen Donaldson to Cixin Liu back to Donaldson.
In my last article I announced that the first book of The Unbeliever saga is almost done. Well, it is now.
Thomas Covenant has helped the Quest succeed and was released from his miserable summoned dream back to his even more miserable reality. Or was the dream real? From one improbability to other with madness in between.
The Unbeliever books, with Lord Foul's bane being the first of at least ten, it depends on how you count them, are not an easy read at all. Many a time I vouched that I will have a booklet ready and write down every unfamiliar word I encounter. The booklet would be full by now.
True, English is not my first language. Equally true, these books include some weird, or at least rare words.
Anyways, a heavy read it is, for content even more. Contrasting moral dilemmas, high values against utter doom. Heroism without limits against fear and cowardice.
The book is as repulsing as it is attractive. Those who are familiar with it would understand.
Next, Liu Cixin with his Supernova Era. He loves to use the word era. It's all over his books. As it is universe spanning narrative, catastrophe scenarios and ordinary people put into majestic roles by faith or destiny?
The supernova changes all on Earth in an instant. How will humanity adapt? With war games led by children, of course. Intrigued? Me too :)
After Supernova I'll return to The Illearth War, the second book in the Covenant series.
Better and better
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It has something to do with how Chinese see timeframes, an Era for them has a lot more meaning than for us, so be not surprise by the way Liu hyper focus on it, It hit me too when I was reading his works.
Yes, I see your point. For Chinese, everything is grand. Big land, big time periods.
Liu's stories encompass this attitude. They are universe-spanning, both in time and space. Even after time and out of space !LOLZ
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They see the "big picture" above all, and that has define the way they see the life at it is, and im amazed you dint have more cultural challenges with his works, as he has several things that felt a bit rushed or slow at times, I guess even his tempo on writing is slow paced and elaborated.
I am used to slow tempo. For example, Covenant books are slow. And one other book, Vanuatu Diaries, from a Slovenian author, is a masterpiece of slowness. Paragraphs are above ten pages long, there is almost no dialog, the location of the main characters changes instantly and randomly, all they do is search for their lost ones, yet they know they can't find them. It's a hopeless quest that ends in a sort of resolution. That was a hard read :)
I might write areview of this book yet it will never be translated into English, it's too weird and boring...
Well If i can recommend weird and long paragraphs to you, I would recomend "Blindness (novel)" by José Saramago and its continuation Seeing (novel) by same author, both of them are unique novels, really slow and elaborated that delve deep into the concept of what is to be human and he got a bloody prize for them, they are deeply great yet uneventful, kind of weird and unique :)
I might take a look, thank you very much :)
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