Comments on: Ghost voices http://stevenpoole.net/articles/ghost-voices/ words & music Wed, 23 Nov 2011 19:10:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Steven http://stevenpoole.net/articles/ghost-voices/#comment-1864 Steven Mon, 19 Oct 2009 18:21:36 +0000 http://stevenpoole.net/articles/ghost-voices/#comment-1864 I would buy a newspaper that paid Don DeLillo to write the Parliamentary sketches. I would buy a newspaper that paid Don DeLillo to write the Parliamentary sketches.

]]> By: Andrew Bartlett http://stevenpoole.net/articles/ghost-voices/#comment-1863 Andrew Bartlett Mon, 19 Oct 2009 16:00:47 +0000 http://stevenpoole.net/articles/ghost-voices/#comment-1863 I think the Damned United is a much easier read than the later 'Red Riding' novels - it seemed a little [welcome] step back from his drive into increasingly experimental styles. Well, that and the fact that as dark 44 days in Leeds was for Clough, or fictional Clough, it didn't involve the horrible tangle of murders, corruption, and guilty, joyless sex that can make any book a struggle. His distinctive style does makes him an easy target for parody. Sport is a TV Show have captured it just right. http://sportisatvshow.blogspot.com/2009/08/damn-united-official-200910-sport-is-tv.html I'd buy any newspaper that would hire Peace to write for their sports section. I think the Damned United is a much easier read than the later ‘Red Riding’ novels – it seemed a little [welcome] step back from his drive into increasingly experimental styles. Well, that and the fact that as dark 44 days in Leeds was for Clough, or fictional Clough, it didn’t involve the horrible tangle of murders, corruption, and guilty, joyless sex that can make any book a struggle.

His distinctive style does makes him an easy target for parody. Sport is a TV Show have captured it just right.

http://sportisatvshow.blogspot.....is-tv.html

I’d buy any newspaper that would hire Peace to write for their sports section.

]]> By: Gregor http://stevenpoole.net/articles/ghost-voices/#comment-1856 Gregor Tue, 29 Sep 2009 11:53:11 +0000 http://stevenpoole.net/articles/ghost-voices/#comment-1856 I recently read 1977 which I got in a charity shop. I sort-of agree with the status quo opinion on Peace: interesting stylist, though disappointing storyteller. Unless I really missed a lot about 1977 (and I haven't read the other books in the series) it is a detective story without a culprit or solution? I recently read 1977 which I got in a charity shop. I sort-of agree with the status quo opinion on Peace: interesting stylist, though disappointing storyteller.

Unless I really missed a lot about 1977 (and I haven’t read the other books in the series) it is a detective story without a culprit or solution?

]]> By: Hu http://stevenpoole.net/articles/ghost-voices/#comment-1846 Hu Wed, 26 Aug 2009 17:33:59 +0000 http://stevenpoole.net/articles/ghost-voices/#comment-1846 Having barely made it through Tokyo Year Zero it's interesting to find out that Peace has turned up the experimentation instead of mellowing down. James Ellroys blurb made me pick up TYZ in high hopes for a mix of noir in post apocalyptic Japan (what a setting!) but I was really disappointed to find an simmering detective story disturbed by increasingly frequent repetition of onomatopoeic approximations of the ambient sounds around the characters. While definitely interestingly experimental, this approach to alienated me from the story instead of pulling me in. Like a high-brow arty remix of a song I probably would not enjoy to begin with. But I still believe the ambition to break conventions should be applauded even if the results, as it were, do not work on paper. Having barely made it through Tokyo Year Zero it’s interesting to find out that Peace has turned up the experimentation instead of mellowing down.

James Ellroys blurb made me pick up TYZ in high hopes for a mix of noir in post apocalyptic Japan (what a setting!) but I was really disappointed to find an simmering detective story disturbed by increasingly frequent repetition of onomatopoeic approximations of the ambient sounds around the characters.
While definitely interestingly experimental, this approach to alienated me from the story instead of pulling me in.
Like a high-brow arty remix of a song I probably would not enjoy to begin with.

But I still believe the ambition to break conventions should be applauded even if the results, as it were, do not work on paper.

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