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If you liked that, you're gonna love this

posted 17 years ago by ozymandias312
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The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare (1907)

http://www.worldwideschool.org/library/books/lit/detective/TheManWhoWasThursday/toc.html

Here's a sample:

"Are you the new recruit?" said the invisible chief, who seemed to have heard all about it. "All right. You are engaged."

Syme, quite swept off his feet, made a feeble fight against this irrevocable phrase.

"I really have no experience," he began.

"No one has any experience," said the other, "of the Battle of Armageddon."

"But I am really unfit--"

"You are willing, that is enough," said the unknown.

"Well, really," said Syme, "I don't know any profession of which mere willingness is the final test."

"I do," said the other--"martyrs. I am condemning you to death. Good day."

Ozymandias312

[–] thewholebrevitything 17 years ago

worst writing ever.

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[–] ozymandias312 17 years ago

Well, tastes differ, I suppose. Sorry I disappointed you.

Ozy

[–] thewholebrevitything 17 years ago

Its just thats it appears unrealistic.

Good drama comes from the action not from drama. I get that there is some sort of impending doom about to befall the main character which is good but That isnt backed up by the atmosphere, tone and action sentences. Good writing is consistent all those things. Good start though ...

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[–] ozymandias312 17 years ago

I think I brought it up mainly because the first time I read it, almost all the mental imagery that first sprang to my mind seemed to come right from Soderbergh's _Kafka_, with its masked Anarcho-Syndicalist bombers and all.

There is a bit of action later on in the book: an unusual sword duel, and a fairly tense foot and car chase across much of France, ending in a confrontation that I for one found suspenseful, and then a more farcical chase in England. The ending is quite surreal.

Ozy

[–] cab1024-1 17 years ago

They don't seem to have this at Netflix; how weird.

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