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Post by Char-Vell on Aug 22, 2019 6:55:42 GMT -5
I finished listening to Voyage to Arcturus on Libravox.
It is chock full of weird and interesting ideas and imagery, but as a story it's dull, plodding and tiresome.
The protagonist is annoyingly stupid, plot points and "philosophies" are punishingly belabored. I struggled to finish listening to it, I can only imagine the hell of reading it.
It comes across as a weird fiction take on Candide or Gulliver's Travels.
One can spot were other writers cribbed ideas from it for more exciting tales. I'm certain Moorcock was all about Voyage to Arcturus.
I cannot recommend it.
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Post by ChrisLAdams on Aug 22, 2019 7:28:00 GMT -5
I finished listening to Voyage to Arcturus on Libravox.
It is chock full of weird and interesting ideas and imagery, but as a story it's dull, plodding and tiresome.
The protagonist is annoyingly stupid, plot points and "philosophies" are punishingly belabored. I struggled to finish listening to it, I can only imagine the hell of reading it.
It comes across as a weird fiction take on Candide or Gulliver's Travels.
One can spot were other writers cribbed ideas from it for more exciting tales. I'm certain Moorcock was all about Voyage to Arcturus.
I cannot recommend it.
I'm beating your heart, Maskull! I liked it. It is a bit plodding. But a poign!? Who wouldn't want one!  Seriously, the scene where the creature in the stream dissolved was bizarre. |
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Post by Char-Vell on Aug 22, 2019 8:28:12 GMT -5
I finished listening to Voyage to Arcturus on Libravox.
It is chock full of weird and interesting ideas and imagery, but as a story it's dull, plodding and tiresome.
The protagonist is annoyingly stupid, plot points and "philosophies" are punishingly belabored. I struggled to finish listening to it, I can only imagine the hell of reading it.
It comes across as a weird fiction take on Candide or Gulliver's Travels.
One can spot were other writers cribbed ideas from it for more exciting tales. I'm certain Moorcock was all about Voyage to Arcturus.
I cannot recommend it.
I'm beating your heart, Maskull! I liked it. It is a bit plodding. But a poign!? Who wouldn't want one! Seriously, the scene where the creature in the stream dissolved was bizarre. I thoroughly detested Maskull early on, and he only got worse.
I wouldn't mind having a Sorb, I could get a lot done with a Sorb.
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Post by ChrisLAdams on Aug 22, 2019 8:38:28 GMT -5
I'm beating your heart, Maskull! I liked it. It is a bit plodding. But a poign!? Who wouldn't want one! Seriously, the scene where the creature in the stream dissolved was bizarre. I thoroughly detested Maskull early on, and he only got worse.
I wouldn't mind having a Sorb, I could get a lot done with a Sorb.
It's always aggravating when the main character makes stupid mistakes and never learns from them. I catch this happening in a lot of TV shows, as well--where the main guy does something dufussy, and you're like, "No, you F&^$# idiot!!" But you can't stop a train wreck, Char-Vell. Both Tarzan and John Carter were prone to this inexplicable tendency. Carson Napier was as well, now I think about it. I have't read Arcturus in years, but I've read it twice as I recall. I may have to give it another go round. Just now, I found this Youtube audio version of it. I could revisit the Prongs and Poings and Sorbs and Shlongs on my commute. |
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Post by Char-Vell on Aug 22, 2019 9:04:21 GMT -5
Tarzan and John Carter displayed charisma when they did it, and there was a rousing adventure going on. Maskull just plodded through one allegorical landscape after another and F### up everything.
I found my self reimagining what was happening in the story replacing Maskull with Kull or Elric. things would have been different.
I need to read some Carson of Venus.
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Post by ChrisLAdams on Aug 22, 2019 10:38:18 GMT -5
Tarzan and John Carter displayed charisma when they did it, and there was a rousing adventure going on. Maskull just plodded through one allegorical landscape after another and F### up everything. I found my self reimagining what was happening in the story replacing Maskull with Kull or Elric. things would have been different. I need to read some Carson of Venus. Conan, bringing every rangy muscle he possessed to bear, swung the Arcturean scimitar in a savage arc, splitting Maskull's chin and lopping off his poign which flew thru the air, spurting fluid and wobbling gel-like. The Cimmerian felt a throbbing in his forehead and, clutching his face, felt the elongation of the member as one of his own sprouted from his skull. "Not me, by Crom," he muttered, pulling a Hyrkanian dirk from his boot..... **** I loved Carson, but he makes frustratingly ignorant decisions. Be prepared..... |
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Post by Char-Vell on Aug 22, 2019 14:05:05 GMT -5
Conan knocked the ends off two of the eggs, and swallowed the liquid contents. They tasted rather alcoholic. Krag snatched the remaining, egg out of his hand and flung it against a tree trunk, where it broke and stuck, a splash of slime.
"I don't wait to be asked, Conan.... Say, is there a filthier sight than a smashed pleasure?"
"Aye, dog!" snarled the Cimmerian, "The sight of your smashed skull!"
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