Flat Quake Review
Nov. 23rd, 2010 09:51 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bluegargantuaHi,
After reading Orange Eats Creeps a few weeks ago, I thumbed through some other books being put out by Two Dollar Radio press. There were a couple of short novels by Rudolph Wurlitzer that looked interesting and I managed to find copies via Library Loan so I sent away for them. I've now finsished both novels Flats and Quake.
Both novels are on the artsy/experimental end of the spectrum. Both are fairly short (less than 200) pages. Both feature unnamed (or poorly named) protagonists who are trying to survive in a world gone wrong. Quake follows the narrator after a huge earthquake strikes LA and all social cohesion breaks down. Flats deals with the narrator's attempt to negotiate some post-apocalypse landscape. I think that Flats is the better of the two although you could read Quake and then follow it up with Flats and pretend it was all one longer narrative. Quake is a little more grounded in "reality" compared to Flats and the characters have more "normal" interactions, but Flats has a more mystic quality to it that I really enjoyed.
Not everyone's cup of tea, but again, I found these books interesting and provocative reads.
later
Tom
After reading Orange Eats Creeps a few weeks ago, I thumbed through some other books being put out by Two Dollar Radio press. There were a couple of short novels by Rudolph Wurlitzer that looked interesting and I managed to find copies via Library Loan so I sent away for them. I've now finsished both novels Flats and Quake.
Both novels are on the artsy/experimental end of the spectrum. Both are fairly short (less than 200) pages. Both feature unnamed (or poorly named) protagonists who are trying to survive in a world gone wrong. Quake follows the narrator after a huge earthquake strikes LA and all social cohesion breaks down. Flats deals with the narrator's attempt to negotiate some post-apocalypse landscape. I think that Flats is the better of the two although you could read Quake and then follow it up with Flats and pretend it was all one longer narrative. Quake is a little more grounded in "reality" compared to Flats and the characters have more "normal" interactions, but Flats has a more mystic quality to it that I really enjoyed.
Not everyone's cup of tea, but again, I found these books interesting and provocative reads.
later
Tom
