La la la, just a normal human being, la la la. Ahhh, love the Ice. Ice makes love to me. Make ice hammers and smash ice into humans. F word F word F word. Speak to me heart! Urination. F word F word F word. More brothers of the heart. The light! Hammer some humans. The light! Hammer some humans. Cuddle while thinking about the light. F word F word F word. Hammer some humans. Big meet up. Puzzling end.
That was my weekend, and that is basically the plot of Sorokin's Ice Trilogy, with a bit of editing. I did not like the book. Yet the reviews practically gush. Here's a typical one from the New York Review of Books:
Pulp fiction, science fiction, New Ageism, pornography, video-game mayhem, old-time Communist propaganda, and rampant commercial hype all collide, splinter, and splatter in Vladimir Sorokin’s virtuosic Ice Trilogy, a crazed joyride through modern times with the promise of a truly spectacular crash at the end. And the reader, as eager for the redemptive fix of a good story as the Children are for the Primordial Light, has no choice except to go along, caught up in a brilliant illusion from which only illusion escapes intact.
Yeah, uh-huh. It was like an even more horrible, horrible Johnathan Livingston Seagull with lots and lots of F words and rough sex. And with about as much trippy transcendental blah blah blah. No character development. Unlikeable characters. Too much urinating and defecating, though admittedly it's difficult to find that sweet spot between too much and too little. Redundancy and more redundancy. No tension. Plot given early on and then we never deviate, depriving us of any suspense or surprises.
What was there to like?? I'm thinking it was the Russian writer thing and the time trip through Moscow.
I tillegg til å øke ad utgifter for å stimulere salget, for å redusere utgifter, men også ikke mindre hardt. Et tydelig eksempel er Nike skritt for å lukke innenlandske fabrikker for å kutte kostnadene for OEM.
Posted by: Billige Nike Sko | 09/14/2012 at 03:33 AM