Comments on: Pure Egan https://www.cynthianewberrymartin.com/2011/03/pure-egan/ Catching Days Mon, 18 Apr 2011 15:49:58 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: cynthia https://www.cynthianewberrymartin.com/2011/03/pure-egan/#comment-2900 Mon, 18 Apr 2011 15:49:58 +0000 http://catchingdays.cynthianewberrymartin.com/?p=8342#comment-2900 In reply to Robin MacArthur.

Got my packet off, so catching up on things… I loved Safari too, but the stories add up to so much more read together in order in the book. When you get to it, I’d love to know what you think.

]]> By: Robin MacArthur https://www.cynthianewberrymartin.com/2011/03/pure-egan/#comment-2899 Thu, 14 Apr 2011 16:57:54 +0000 http://catchingdays.cynthianewberrymartin.com/?p=8342#comment-2899 Was blown away by “Safari” in Best American. So excited to read the rest.

]]> By: cynthia https://www.cynthianewberrymartin.com/2011/03/pure-egan/#comment-2898 Mon, 11 Apr 2011 11:52:03 +0000 http://catchingdays.cynthianewberrymartin.com/?p=8342#comment-2898 In reply to angecan.

Ange, welcome to Catching Days and thanks for your wonderful comment and recommendations. I have not read any other of Egan’s books but have heard from several readers how good LOOK AT ME is. I will have to add her other books to my list. I hope you’ll be back.

]]> By: angecan https://www.cynthianewberrymartin.com/2011/03/pure-egan/#comment-2897 Thu, 07 Apr 2011 01:55:42 +0000 http://catchingdays.cynthianewberrymartin.com/?p=8342#comment-2897 I’ve read everything she’s written. All hits and no misses. What’s more, I can read her work again and again which is something I never thought I’d do — read a book more than once unless I was studying it — because with so many books and so little time, it just seems insane. But she’s THAT GOOD. And she keeps getting better, though her earlier work by no means pales in comparison. LOOK AT ME is genius. It was shortlisted for the National Book Award. I could easily pick her up any one of her books or short stories and read it all over again. And yet, as much as I love Morrison’s Beloved and Faulks’s Birdsong, I wouldn’t necessarily want to revisit them any time soon. I don’t know why. Can’t put my finger on what Egan does. If you finish that chart, Cynthia, I’d love to see it. I’m too mesmerized to see the mechanics behind the magic, but I’m definitely curious.

This was a really interesting article. Aside from the “structural” motif, I have to admit I didn’t notice the others.

]]> By: cynthia https://www.cynthianewberrymartin.com/2011/03/pure-egan/#comment-2896 Fri, 25 Mar 2011 11:39:30 +0000 http://catchingdays.cynthianewberrymartin.com/?p=8342#comment-2896 In reply to Lisa Kenney.

Yep. Wow.

]]> By: cynthia https://www.cynthianewberrymartin.com/2011/03/pure-egan/#comment-2895 Fri, 25 Mar 2011 11:39:07 +0000 http://catchingdays.cynthianewberrymartin.com/?p=8342#comment-2895 In reply to Lisa Kenney.

Delight is the perfect word. And I’ve started a chart trying to figure out how she did this…

]]> By: Lisa Kenney https://www.cynthianewberrymartin.com/2011/03/pure-egan/#comment-2894 Fri, 25 Mar 2011 04:04:36 +0000 http://catchingdays.cynthianewberrymartin.com/?p=8342#comment-2894 Just finished. Wow.

]]> By: Lisa Kenney https://www.cynthianewberrymartin.com/2011/03/pure-egan/#comment-2892 Thu, 24 Mar 2011 14:09:58 +0000 http://catchingdays.cynthianewberrymartin.com/?p=8342#comment-2892 I am right about in the middle of this and I am mesmerized. It’s strange to me that in the odd excitement/dread/sadness that’s now leading up to the publication of THE PALE KING, I discover Egan — an answer for me to the space left after DFW’s unexpected departure. She is the first author I’ve read since DFW to challenge and delight me with structure. Each time I pick up this book there is a tingle of anticipation that no book has made me feel in some time. Everything is new again.

]]> By: Pure Egan — Contrary Blog https://www.cynthianewberrymartin.com/2011/03/pure-egan/#comment-2891 Sun, 20 Mar 2011 12:34:11 +0000 http://catchingdays.cynthianewberrymartin.com/?p=8342#comment-2891 […] ~cross-posted at Catching Days […]

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