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Title: The Forgetting Room: A Fiction (Byzantium Book) by Nick Bantock ISBN: 0-00-225176-0 Publisher: Harpercollins Pub. Date: 01 September, 1997 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $22.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.11 (19 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Not top-notch, but still good
Comment: The Forgetting Room has an entertaining story and beautiful artwork, all in Bantock's neo-surrealistic style. I can't complain about the ideas presented in this novel, but Bantock does not explore them in depth. Of course it doesn't spoon-feed, but some readers will question if it brings the food close enough. If you're a Bantock fan, or you don't mind completing Bantock's ideas, this book is good. Otherwise, I recommend you read Bantock's "Griffin and Sabine" or Crimmins's "The Republic of Dreams," both of which go deeper into their subjects.
Rating: 2
Summary: A better tale of Bantock himself than a mere work of fiction
Comment: I love Nick Bantock's work, and have for a few years now. I consider his works an inspiration for my own and I enjoyed this book as a means to discover how Bantock as an artist creates his pieces. As a story however, I felt it lacked the passion it set out to portray and seemed hurredly written.
All Bantock collectors will buy this book, and most will treasure it, not for the forgetful story, but for the artwork and an insight into the artist himself.
If you are looking for a great story however, I'm sad to say you should look elsewhere.
Don't worry, I'll still be first in line to buy the next one.
Rating: 1
Summary: Blech.
Comment: Thank goodness this was a library copy, or I'd have felt most cheated.
The writing was clumsy, and strained at many instances. One can feel that Bantock is trying to be witty at times, but his 'set-ups' are so obvious it's paintful.
The pacing was off. There's a big lag in the middle.
The few pieces of 'art' seemed to have been thrown in because the whole story was so boring and self-indulgent.
Rich in symbolism? I find the whole exercise ponderous, and utterly contrived.
Borrow, don't buy this.
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Title: The Egyptian Jukebox: A Conundrum by Nick Bantock ISBN: 0670849448 Publisher: Penguin USA Pub. Date: 01 September, 1993 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: The Museum at Purgatory (Byzantium Book) by Nick Bantock ISBN: 006095793X Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 09 January, 2001 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: The Morning Star by Nick Bantock ISBN: 081183199X Publisher: Chronicle Books Pub. Date: September, 2003 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: The Venetian's Wife: A Strangely Sensual Tale of a Renaissance Explorer, a Computer, and a Metamorphosis by Nick Bantock ISBN: 0811811409 Publisher: Chronicle Books Pub. Date: 01 October, 1996 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
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Title: Alexandria: In Which the Extraordinary Correspondence of Griffin & Sabine Unfolds by Nick Bantock ISBN: 081183140X Publisher: Chronicle Books Pub. Date: 01 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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