TBT: Exactly. At the risk of sounding like some sort of Catherine Cookson-reader, I fell in love with the characters in Possession and was hoping TBT would be similar, but Phineas G spent all his time insisting that a biographer should not put too much of himself into his work. Which is fine in biographical theory, okay, but in this case just seemed like an excuse for Byatt not to have to do much characterisation. In the end, I didn't give a damn what happened to him.
Thinks... was hilarious. I loved the essays on being a bat. Aside from the jokes, though, I'm interested in stories of arts people and science people attempting to communicate, since I've been on both sides of the divide, and thought this was well done. It had an interesting structure too - the pattern of one chapter which just quotes their dialogue, like a screenplay, then a chapter where he thinks it over, then a third where she thinks it over. It's hard to do that sort of screenplayish dialogue and be interesting, but DL made it interesting *and* funny. Kudos.
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Thinks... was hilarious. I loved the essays on being a bat. Aside from the jokes, though, I'm interested in stories of arts people and science people attempting to communicate, since I've been on both sides of the divide, and thought this was well done. It had an interesting structure too - the pattern of one chapter which just quotes their dialogue, like a screenplay, then a chapter where he thinks it over, then a third where she thinks it over. It's hard to do that sort of screenplayish dialogue and be interesting, but DL made it interesting *and* funny. Kudos.