I wonder who the heck reads this blog ever. I don't update it, and yet it gets page views. My Blogger stats say so.
I've read Agyar by Stephen Brust, Life of Pi by Yann Martel, and probably a couple other books this past year or so, I can't remember. Currently reading The Incrementalists, a collaboration between Stephen Brust and Skyler White.
So Life of Pi... so much to be said. This was one of those books we had the option of reading for school, though I never did. So obviously you could write whole essays on it. The overall message hit me only when I went through the questions in the back of the book, and went back to re-read chapters 22 and 23 on part one. Then I got it. Click.
I read Agyar because Brust has said it's his favorite book that he's written, and I understand why- it must have been really fun to write. Something I like about his books (that I've read, anyway) is that there's usually a reason why you're reading the story- a logical place the words have come from. In Agyar, the protagonist is typing it all out on a typewriter, because he feels like it. It's not just a story-from-nowhere deal.
And I do so love the way that you have to figure out what in the hell is going on. I dislike when books spell it all out for you- which is why I'm a little surprised at The Incrementalists. There's a lot that's being explained right up front... but I'm less than halfway through with it, so I'd better reserve judgment 'til the end, I suppose!
