[books] I HAVE WORKED OUT WHAT THIS BOOK IS DOING

[kaberett]

Otherlands, Thomas Halliday, through which I am trudging extremely slowly and with some resentment despite the occasional excellent paragraphs about specific species: I have been grumbling that it feels like it wants to grow up to be a podcast.

I was wrong.

It wants to be a David Attenborough documentary. And it's relying on its readers supplying the images to go with the voiceover! And I'm aphantasic! But that's the source of the cadence and the pacing and the zooming in and out on ecosystems -- all of it Wants To Be A David Attenborough Documentary, and I'm aphantasic.

Thanks to this revelation I am feeling much better about it not quite landing with me!

Comments

[shanaqui]

Sounds like one I will not, personally, get along with then, for the same reason. Which is a shame, because I did have my eye on it, but it's good to know! Thank you!

[silveradept]

Oh, goodness, that's interesting. I have heard about evocative prose, but I didn't know that some books are deliberately trying to do that.