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November 27, 2002
Suck eggs, Wallace, you conniving fucker.
You've probably seen this, most of you. Go see it again.
If you plan on reading The Book, and I suggest you do read it, it's probably best not to read the rest of this entry because I'm about to bitch about the ending. Okay? Okay.
Okay, I finished it. (Finnished it.) And lo it was the most obnoxious ending ever.
Let me sum up:
One Book.
Eight nillion story lines.
Five killion characters.
Thirteen chachillion red herrings.
Eleven hundred pages.
No resolution of anything.
Can somebody explain the moving objects? Was this the Incandenza wraith trying to indirectly communicate with his son via Stice? Can someone explain, please, the whole Hal slowly disintigrating thing, since he never took the massively annoying red herring DMZ? And why the fuck did Don Gately wind up helping Hal to dig up the head of Incandenza?
Stuff I really thought he was going to get into:
- an Interlace conspiracy with the Quebecois
- some revelation that pot really is the most dangerous of drugs
- any kind of explanation of what powers the Entertainment
In short, YEEEEEAAUGH!!!
On the other hand, I am now using the vocabulary constantly, to wit (if that's the phrase I want) the terms 'de-mapping,' 'limp' and 'the moms.'
This ending was totally limp.
I'm going to find Wallace and demap him.
Don't tell the moms.
Posted by didofoot at November 27, 2002 08:46 AM
Comments
I hated the ending, too. I had the feeling that there was some earlier, 1,700-page draft of the novel which explained EVERYTHING. But that's bullshit; Mr. DFM probably would have used the extra 600 pages for a discussion of Interlace film production technology, train-related Quebecoise gambling, and, of course, 250 additional pages of wraiths.
Also, I think the DMZ was on Hal's toothbrush.
Posted by: sean at November 27, 2002 09:26 AM
whoa, i'm still gonna read it though.
Posted by: tracy at November 27, 2002 09:34 AM
that's the 'jest.'
get it?
i know. i'm still not laughing.
ha ha, bastard.
Posted by: ian at November 27, 2002 09:42 AM
is that *really* the jest? is that what he kept alluding to by describing all of incandenza's audience mockery films? ha ha yoke's on me?
on his *toothbrush.* oh. that's what that was. I need to reread that.
but the gately thing? b/c in the veeery beginning hal off-handedly mentions digging up his father's head with donald gately. wtf?
Posted by: didofoot at November 27, 2002 10:18 AM
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