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Still Still Reading

Jan 28th, 2008
by gav.

Well I’m 2/3s through Vellum by Hal Duncan and I’ve come to a couple of conclusions. It’s not a book I can read solidly. You’d have thought that I’d have come to this decision earlier  but the last two days of trying to finish it have proved it. The other is that I’m going to go straight on to reading Ink when I’ve finished but I’m going to read other stuff at the same time and it might take much longer that I had planned.

The hard part of reading Vellum is that as the narrative isn’t linear and it doesn’t have a groove to settle into and enjoy. You have to work from section to section. It’s not unenjoyable but it is a little grating when you have to switch thinking every few pages.

I am, however, convinced that there is going to be a real sense of satisfaction when I’ve got to the end of both books.

Is it just me that’s struggling with this book?

I am enjoying Jeremy Clarkson’s unique take on the world in The World According to Clakson Volume 2. I’m also reading that in small but satisfying chunks.

I’m moving on to The Hounds of Avalon as from prior experience I know Mark Chadbourn is both a linear and imaginative story teller. I’m just hoping all this myth retelling isn’t going to get me too muddled. It doesn’t help that I’m also playing God of War II on PS.

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