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  • ZAMM (may contain spoilers)
  • mattjg
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    I’m 3/4 of my way through a reread of **ZAMM, I rushed it first time, because I was frustrated that it wasn’t what I wanted it to be. But it seems to have got lodged in my head firmly enough for me to pull it out again a few years later.

    It’s the most intriguing book, but there’s noone I know to talk to it about f2f.

    What do you think?

    * the classic leather-jacket road trip
    * RP relationship (or lack of) with Chris
    * the mechanics bit
    * the bike, the weather, the road
    * the switch to the high mountain walk
    * the psycho-horror (I find it quite chilling) of Phaedrus raising his head, my edition even has a change of font for his voice and I sort of sneak-peak ahead to see it coming up
    * the Bozeman/Quality section (I find that bit quite tough but am through it now)

    There’s a lot going on there. Clever.

    ** if you’ve read it you know what it is. If you haven’t then this thread won’t mean much to you.

    stevie750
    Full Member

    Read it years ago, It’s a great read.

    Do you have the 25th anniversary issue. It has an extra bit added by the author.

    mattjg
    Free Member

    Yes, Vintage paperback, ’99. (So it’s a 40 year old text now).

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    mattjg
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    and RP wrote a follow up called ‘Lila’, anyone read that?

    mattjg
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    just the 2 of us then Steve. Illeterate phillistines this lot.

    Northwind
    Full Member

    I’ve read it, I just didn’t find it very interesting or memorable tbh… Shims from the private stock of Baron Alfred Krupp aside.

    mattjg
    Free Member

    Fair enough.

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