tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16621011.post7760497208121939455..comments2024-03-04T05:43:21.206-05:00Comments on H. P. Lovecraft And His Legacy: Chrispy's Travels with H P LovecraftUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16621011.post-1591310858394385822008-03-28T09:21:00.000-04:002008-03-28T09:21:00.000-04:00Richard, you should get The Beach by Alex Garland....Richard, you should get The Beach by Alex Garland. I take this with me on my trips. It is spellbinding. You can open to any page and get invovled in the story. Garland's first-person narration, while on target in conveying Richard's (the main character) personality, also manages to differentiate the other characters--no small task.<BR/><BR/>Garland is a wonder; he's able to write unrelentingly suspenseful, downright hallucinatory action scenes, then balance them with passages of chillingly accurate psychology. His intensely imagined tale is, on one level, a brilliant update of Lord of the Flies, and on another, a wholly original and unsettling depiction of psyches shaped by the bewildering messages of Loony Tunes.<BR/><BR/>You can't help to smile and laugh which make plane trips shorter.<BR/><BR/>Cheers<BR/><BR/>John RowlandsAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com