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I am not done with this book, but have seldom had a piece of fiction get under my skin quite like Lanark. The first third of the book is surreal, perhaps the only accurate depiction of dreaming I've ever read. The second book, which is called book one, is the childhood of the protagonist. It is richly written in a Scottish dialect, very funny, and for those who explore the "mysteries", very profound.The reading of it can not be rushed and yet staying away from it for more than a day is a bit like metal trying to pull free from a rivet.
This is a book for the well read, who are looking for something completely different than anything they've read before. I don't give five stars easily. Lanark gets my highest rating for kicking my soul back to life with humor and wisdom so artfully employed in the storytelling. Joe Taylor, Yaroos.com
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This was the first novel I read by Alasdair Gray and i wasn't disappointed in the least bit. The story is incredibly imaginative, always taking a unique turn in a direction i did not expect and have not seen with another other author. Gray's writing nails many aspects of life encountered in other books, but is accurate and meaningful.
I didn't like this book. I didn't like it at all----Well, let me rephrase I didn't like Books Three or Four in this rambling tetralogy. That is, I didn't care for, didn't like, didn't fancy, was much off put by the mediocre "Dystopian" Science Fiction section and, above all, by the cutesy so-called "Epilogue." Books One and Two were really quite good, I thought, and deserve five stars. But books Three and Four were so inane that it's more than a bit of a stretch to bequeath three to the whole lot. ---Let it be noted that the books follow this sequence when reading them 3,1,2,4. What is gained by this rearrangement, I haven't the foggiest.
A short dissertation All this Dystopian nonsense is merely reworked Gnosticism, especially here, given Gray's theological obsessions. As the minister tells Duncan in Chapter 18 in Book One (coming, naturally, after book Three), "...the spirit ruling the material world is callous and malignant." This pretty much sums up Books Three and Four in a nutshell. And, as Bertrand Russell once put it, if something can be contained in a nutshell, it's better to leave it in a nutshell. Really, if the reader wants to read truly gripping fiction of this sort, let him or her read any of the early Cormac McCarthy works, particularly Blood Meridian and Suttree or, more broadly, anything before All the Pretty Horses.
As for Books One and Two, high laud indeed! - A very poignant and harrowing, obviously autobiographical account, of the artist vs. society, an artist modelling himself very much on William Blake, as Alasdair Gray obviously does.
An epilogue on the "Epilogue" I truly hated this section for several reasons, but not primarily for the reasons Gray, as the "King" or author seems to suggest the reader likely will. Really, it's the icing on the Pomo cake of Books Three and Four. It's obvious that Gray has taken from other authors, as all authors do in one fashion or the other. It's the influences he leaves out, much better books, that bother me. To wit
1.) The Private Memoirs And Confessions of a Justified Sinner by fellow Scotsman James Hogg
2.) The Recognitions by William Gaddis
I strongly suggest that any reader piqued by the better parts of this tetralogy delve into these other two works of genius. The first is quite possibly the most profoundly eerie book ever written. And the second, coming in at a bit over 1,000 pages, is a true masterpiece detailing the breakdown of modern artistic values and one man's struggle against it, all the while maintaining humour and verve. Malcolm Lowry, author of Under The Volcano, called it "A secret missile of the soul" shortly before he died. Gaddis never wrote anything to match it in his later efforts. The point is that, after reading these two works, you will see this one, however good in parts, as a pale shadow in comparison.
Happy reading then and taking a cue from the last page herein GOODBYE
A stunning piece of writing, with a lovely sense of dread that hangs over the characters in a way not seen since Bram Stoker's Dracula. Very delicious read.
The story is written as a kalidescope of imagery, allowing the reader to piece together as best he or she can the setting and events of Lanark's life. I was so moved by the characters in this story that I, for a time, thought that I would find my calling in art school as the main character had. Turns out I was wrong about art school, but I still love this novel. The Schizophrenic pace at which events unfold keep the reader's attention and curiosity, while the metaphoric symoblism is sure to make this novel a lasting cult classic. Amazing, beautiful, and above all a work a genious.
I am not done with this book, but have seldom had a piece of fiction get under my skin quite like Lanark. The first third of the book is surreal, perhaps the only accurate depiction of dreaming I've ever read. The second book, which is called book one, is the childhood of the protagonist. It is richly written in a Scottish dialect, very funny, and for those who explore the "mysteries", very profound.
The reading of it can not be rushed and yet staying away from it for more than a day is a bit like metal trying to pull free from a rivet.
This is a book for the well read, who are looking for something completely different than anything they've read before. I don't give five stars easily. Lanark gets my highest rating for kicking my soul back to life with humor and wisdom so artfully employed in the storytelling. Joe Taylor, Yaroos.com
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