Fred, you’ve unleashed my inner lit nerd.
I’ll explain:
Fred let me borrow a book called “Exegesis”. I actually don’t think is an appropriate title for the book, I would have gone with “Hello, Alice” or something either less erudite or not sharing the name of a Phillip K. Dick work–but that complaint aside, this book has recently blown my mind.
It hasn’t blown my mind in a ‘question-self-and-existence’ kind of way, nor is it novel in the way that it seems to be an epistolary re-telling of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. It has blown my mind in the way that I wonder, as someone who once wanted to be a writer, to get a post-post-modern method of epistolary writing to be such a really really good page-turner. Seriously, after starting it last night, I am finishing the book tonight. It’s that good.
I would someday like to write something in this voice that is as fun to read. Perhaps I can learn something from it?
I’m very glad the book’s devoured you body and soul =)
I picked up Exegesis back towards the end of high school. The writing style did really attract me, and I think it was because I spent a large part of my high school years in internet chatrooms, roleplaying, and communicating in such a weighty part of my life through this medium.
I’d love to see what it inspires you to write.
“Go Ask Alice”
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