Kapow! Author Adam Thirlwell By Adam Thirlwell
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An extra one for the clever layout with pages that unfolded to allow the incidental stories space to expand 81 Very odd The type comes at you in all directions which makes it very difficult to read until you realise that the strange crooked Y means Insert here And you have to be careful about how you turn the pages in case you miss something which may or may not matter. Kapow boca raton The story is about the Egyptian Revolution of 2011 and the strange layout is obviously meant to convey the chaos of ordinary people s lives during that time of upheaval Ahdaf Soueif does this superbly and in easily readable script and language in her book Cairo My City Our Revolution I am not sure that any of this helped with the novella at the heart of this book. Kapow primary Rustum.
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Spiralling tangential tale of people caught up in the Arab Spring whose stories are filtered through the author narrator Three stars for content Nigora Ahmed and Mouloud are engulfed in a story that the narrator is trying to make sense of as he hears it from someone who observed the events and is telling them to the narrator in various cafes in London As you can imagine there is a certain unreliability about this made my abstruse by the narrator s philosophical musings. Kapow font This story is interesting but on a personal level I found it very unsatisfying Others will think otherwise 81 I get it It s non standard construction and as it s written in first person it s rambly and confusing I just miss the plot there isn t one and although I kept reading and hoping I finished wondering why I bothered Why did Adam bother It s weird but not wonderful It s very short so try it if you ve got a few hours to spare but if your reading time is precious definitely skip this one 81 I was particularly hopeful about this book I loved Politics which for me is a 5 out of 5 book This was interesting in a post modern kind of way but I just could not get invested in any of the characters I had to trudge through the 80 pages which I considered too far several times There was a pay off of a sort at the end but I am not sure it was worth the effort Despite this I plan to read The Escape which I hope is on a par with Politics 81 The digressions in the pages make reading the book a project Sometimes enjoyable humorous and quirky other times frustrating While DFW s footnotes usually enhance his work Thirlwell s digressions break up the story in a way that makes this novel within a novel difficult to follow Page 72 in my copy was printed twice and I couldn t tell whether this was an intentional artistic decision or just a printing error which made me think about the book differently I d recommend Kapow for the reading experience but the story felt distant and unrelatable 81 DON T USE VISUAL GIMMICKS TO SUBSTITUTE MEDIOCRE WRITING 81 I like the themes in this the idea of there being a story in your own life in your direct environment and there being other stories in other places and what to do with those We are asked implored in a way to empathise to live all those stories in all those places on the news in the movies But don t we also have our own shit going on In a sense Thirlwell is trying to say that the stories in for instance the Middle East unfold endlessly and that in the end they fold back into our secluded Western lives too A concertina of stories You could say perhaps that in order to say anything about anything at all one should say either nothing or everything The problem being that both those solutions rub against the grain of our every impulse We want to shout out square sized tweet sized slogan sized Solution sized. Kapow meaning Alas though very few things turn out to be solution sized When we do get to a solution it is always at least partly by chance This whole thing called life is like rain shot at by snipers. Epub latex But are we the raindrop or the shooter Or both 81 Video review 81 Adam Thirlwell while bearing an unfortunate resemblance to Pete Doherty of disgraced noughties flashes in the pan The Libertines is single handedly evolving the digressive novelistic essay thing with a little help from his boutique publishing friends Kapow is a short novel on the Arab Spring told from multiple viewpoints including the unstated author s own that sprawls and runs and dangles off and on the page spinning off into anecdotal tangents irrelevant sidenotes clever clever asides in all manner of crazy zigzag typography pictured here As stated in several broadsheet reviews the extra text functions largely in the manner of footnotes as clauses cast from their sentences are fated to hang off the page like so much authorial snot and seems to add little to the meaning essential for anything as typographically outlandish as this Fortunately Thirlwell drops little clues and winks throughout or self consciously refers to his technique as the digressive sprawl and various subplots gather momentum and the novel is a complete delight to read whose serious purpose beneath the cartoon of his approach should become clear upon multiple readings Thirlwell as a novelist seems to flounder in the conventional form if The Escape is anything to go by but captivates when innovating as in the wonderful Miss Herbert Here s to further innovations from him Only complaint here is the length such a hypertextual feast should exhaust itself for at least 700 pages Then again that s a lot of folding and typesetting Kapow 81 A whip smart funny and smart ass novel wrapped up in a form breaking package Visual Editions one of my favorite publishing houses has finally done a book that s actually a STORY and they ve managed to shatter your preconceptions of the novelistic form yet again It s not going to be for everyone oh no but for those of you who are at least a bit politically minded and for those of you who like stylistic exuberance check this thing out It s well worth your time I promise Lots about the book and the form and how awesome it all is at RB 81
| Kapow! Author Adam Thirlwell By Adam Thirlwell |
| 0956569234 |
| 9780956569233 |
| English |
| 81 |
| Paperback |
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