Comments on Words and Flavours | Melbourne food and book reviews: 'The Raw Shark Texts' - Steven Hall

This really is one of the best novels I have read ...

2009-04-03T20:08:00.000+11:00

This really is one of the best novels I have read in a long time. For all its flaws, and there are a few, the story is, as you described, uterly compelling. Like an endless rollercoaster ride on a pitch black night, not knowing where the next turn or fall is comming from, The Raw Shark Texts gives you whiplash as it weaves a thread from reality to fantasy to obscurity and back again in such

That's a really good point Ang. I don't think I wa...

2009-03-19T10:42:00.000+11:00

That's a really good point Ang. I don't think I was as conscious of it, but looking back I do remembering being aware that sometimes the two Eric Sanderson's seemed to be different people, and sometimes he was doing exactly what you say: figuring out which one was really him. And what an awesome question: if we lose all our memories are we still the same person as we start to experience the world

What got me about this book, and I did read it a l...

2009-03-18T15:11:00.000+11:00

What got me about this book, and I did read it a long time ago so its faded a bit, but right now what I recall standing out was the sense of who the lead character really was - which incarnation was truest to his potential as a human - what did it mean to his soul that his memories were lost so many times and the memories that he did recover being 'cleverer' may have also been (and probably were)

Cheers Davy. It's quite early on in the book and i...

2009-03-09T21:45:00.000+11:00

Cheers Davy. It's quite early on in the book and is a great indicator of so much inventive description to come.

Hi,

I've also read the Shark Texts, strange...

2009-03-07T20:59:00.000+11:00