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<blockquote data-quote="Autumnal" data-source="post: 9752041" data-attributes="member: 6671663"><p>I finished the audiobook of <strong>The Stand</strong>, and loved it all over again. I also encountered a good insight into a common criticism of King, his tendency toward weak endings. Booktuber Lekden is a fan of horror and science fiction, with particular attention to queer genre fiction, and also a Buddhist monk. There’s a combo you don’t see every day. Anyway, in his review of the brand-new anthology The End Of The World As We Know It, where a bunch of great authors write stories in The Stand’s setting, he points out that while King’s plotting is sometimes not the greatest, he does very reliably deliver intensely satisfying character arcs. They rise and resolve and descend in a way that feels right and satisfying even when the plot kind of dangles. I was thinking about that all through the final quarter of The Stand, and feel he got right to the heart of it there. </p><p></p><p>[MEDIA=youtube]MDS5uf5sfxM[/MEDIA]</p><p></p><p>That was 47 hours of listening. Time really well spent, but I was ready for some shorter listening. So I turned to <strong>A Spectre, Haunting</strong>, China Miéville’s book about the Communist Manifesto. It’s less than eight hours long, and it’s read by him. A few comments ensue. </p><p></p><p>1. Miéville has a great voice and is an excellent reader. If you like any of his fiction, hunt this up, maybe from the library or Spotify’s audiobook feature, and listen for a while just so that you can go on to hear his prose in his voice. </p><p></p><p>2. The first chapter lays out some comments about manifestos as a genre and about principles of criticism and analysis. I like these so much I’m going to quote a bunch. </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>This will be book 41/100 in my current read-what-you-own challenge, and I’m enjoying it a lot more this time around. Making sure to include a bunch of big books has helped a lot with that.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Autumnal, post: 9752041, member: 6671663"] I finished the audiobook of [B]The Stand[/B], and loved it all over again. I also encountered a good insight into a common criticism of King, his tendency toward weak endings. Booktuber Lekden is a fan of horror and science fiction, with particular attention to queer genre fiction, and also a Buddhist monk. There’s a combo you don’t see every day. Anyway, in his review of the brand-new anthology The End Of The World As We Know It, where a bunch of great authors write stories in The Stand’s setting, he points out that while King’s plotting is sometimes not the greatest, he does very reliably deliver intensely satisfying character arcs. They rise and resolve and descend in a way that feels right and satisfying even when the plot kind of dangles. I was thinking about that all through the final quarter of The Stand, and feel he got right to the heart of it there. [MEDIA=youtube]MDS5uf5sfxM[/MEDIA] That was 47 hours of listening. Time really well spent, but I was ready for some shorter listening. So I turned to [B]A Spectre, Haunting[/B], China Miéville’s book about the Communist Manifesto. It’s less than eight hours long, and it’s read by him. A few comments ensue. 1. Miéville has a great voice and is an excellent reader. If you like any of his fiction, hunt this up, maybe from the library or Spotify’s audiobook feature, and listen for a while just so that you can go on to hear his prose in his voice. 2. The first chapter lays out some comments about manifestos as a genre and about principles of criticism and analysis. I like these so much I’m going to quote a bunch. This will be book 41/100 in my current read-what-you-own challenge, and I’m enjoying it a lot more this time around. Making sure to include a bunch of big books has helped a lot with that. [/QUOTE]
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