![]() ![]() A Greater Monster by David Katzman was also very Animal Money-ish, but trippier, maybe too much, but going in this direction of what I'm looking for. Lastly, I guess that Murakami's Hard Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World, had alternating chapters in which, one half was a dreamy extremely surreal world, that was AM-ish. I don't mind reading backwards or reading with a mirror, but if that's the extent of innovation, while it is neat, it's a trick more than anything, to me. I've also seen ideas that lack good orientation, which seems to me to happen in *some* of Danielweski's books, like Only Revolutions. I've seen good world-building (though not as colorful) but little by way of ideas. There's surely books with strange cities ( Dhalgren, etc.), but AM was propelled by the notion that something is being developed that will change the world, and much of the first half of the book uses the setting to propel the idea. ![]() The second aspect, is the idea, or one of the main ideas of the novel - the cumulative value added money. It seemed to me to be mixture of the weird accepted with total normalcy, but the vivid bright images struck me. ![]() A strange city full of colors, quasi psychedelic and strange. I suppose the first feature I can isolate is the sheer imagery. ![]() So let me mention what features in Animal Money (AM) specifically struck me to see if any of the features mentioned are more or less seen in other novels. I know, nobody writes like Michael Cisco. ![]()
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