DISQUS

Ian Harrison · 4 months ago

I've just finished reading Breakfast of Champions which, for saying it seemed to be about little else than his own catharsis, was really good. The writing / typographical styles and little drawings could have come across as really strained and forced quirkiness, but they didn't. It even survived becoming 'metafiction' at the end and I still have positive feelings towards it, which is quite an achievement...

I've got Russell's "In Praise of Idleness" too... swapsies?

aiusepsi · 4 months ago

He does the same sort of thing in Slaughterhouse-5, with the occasional drawing, and the first chapter of this is very metafictional, as well as mentions of himself as the author in the narrative. This is also very cathartic in that it's very directly informed by the author's experiences of the firebombing of Dresden.

Definite swapsies. I could do with reading a lot more Russell.