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Loading... Real-Time World (1974)by Christopher Priest
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. Mixed bag of short stories hence the three stars. Titular story is by far the most rewarding, others much less so. ( ) The reason why I wanted to read these stories was because I knew how seventies they were, but as often when confronted with the reality of what I was looking for, I was disappointed with it. None of the stories were entirely satisfactory and although each was competently written, they were written to formula. You could see they were written to achieve a specific effect and how Priest achieves that effect and as a result most of the effect is lost. The first story for example, "The Head and the Hand", about automutilation as a form of performance art, with some graphic scenes including a final auto-guillotining which may have been shocking when first published, but certainly aren't now and without this shock effect the story falls apart. More at http://cloggie.org/books/real-time-world.html no reviews | add a review
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