tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20433842.post115499987253675601..comments2024-03-07T12:57:35.296-05:00Comments on Varieties of Unreligious Experience: Cheeky MonarchyConrad H. Rothhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01916542057749474124noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20433842.post-1155374164909768092006-08-12T05:16:00.000-04:002006-08-12T05:16:00.000-04:00Generally speaking, I tend to shun most modern wri...Generally speaking, I tend to shun most modern writing, but I thought it was fairly worthwhile. It is very much a rewrite of the last section of Gulliver's Travels.Richardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03316636310435451222noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20433842.post-1155242861434497742006-08-10T16:47:00.000-04:002006-08-10T16:47:00.000-04:00Ah, right, yes. No, not disapprobation. I just ten...Ah, right, yes. No, not disapprobation. I just tend to follow Emerson's advice not to read anything less than 100 years old. But maybe I should pull it off the shelves....Conrad H. Rothhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01916542057749474124noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20433842.post-1155242020429671392006-08-10T16:33:00.000-04:002006-08-10T16:33:00.000-04:00I feel reluctant to admit it given your apparent d...I feel reluctant to admit it given your apparent disapprobation, but I have read Great Apes and rather liked it (I have only ever liked one other Will Self Dorian, and hated the rest. He seems at his best when rewriting other novels). The apes don't take over London; it deals with a man who wakes up one morning to find that he has become a chimp and so has the rest of London. The novel then deals with the cause of his deranged imaginings that he was once a human; half Swift, half Boulle.Richardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03316636310435451222noreply@blogger.com