Back in the mid 1970s, I picked up *Ice* , at a second hand bookstore, because it was a thin paperback. Something to read between college classes, some escapist scifi, nothing too complicated, . Well, I ended up reading the jumbled winding story almost straight through. Anna Kavan's writing in *Ice* is masterful. Feelings from a novel I read once almost 50 years ago have stayed with me.
Would have loved to see you will h a bodycam going through that Wales bookstore, how cool! Thanks so much for bringing Ice to us. Can't believe your review! How wonderful. (Not about the authors life, dang!) But still great, and we LOVE psychological stuff.
There really was no redeeming give and take to the relationship between them, the man was all lust, dominance, jealousy and obsession and the girl was an attractive self-obsessed manipulator. I wanted to throw it away but then realized I hadn't read anything quite like it before as Sci-Fi.
@@sergioalcantar3290 I agree with your analysis. I find it beautiful for its exploration of a diseased mind, not for its depiction of a healthy relationship. I actually suspect that the girl has been dead for some time, possibly at the hands of her pursuer, and the latent guilt of that act is part of what drives his madness and obsession.
Great discussion here. Came upon her similarly through Current 93 (or at least made me more interested to read her). We're recording an episode on this one tonight actually, and I think your insights are really spot on, specifically a lot of the stuff about the gendered perspectives in the novel. We did one a while back on Sleep Has His House and I really liked that as well. I think Kavan's voice and vision are just so sui generis really in all of literature.
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I just read it and I think he kills both of them in the end, because there's no space for future, or at least this is what he believes.
It’s a book about the ways in which society punishes people who look or behave differently by comparing them to demons and devil worshippers. It’s called Conform or Be Cast Out and is available now!
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One of the best books I’ve ever read, and I agree with everything you say about it! I can’t recommend it highly enough - to the right reader.
I really appreciate your sensitive summary insight.
Back in the mid 1970s, I picked up *Ice* , at a second hand bookstore, because it was a thin paperback.
Something to read between college classes, some escapist scifi, nothing too complicated, .
Well, I ended up reading the jumbled winding story almost straight through.
Anna Kavan's writing in *Ice* is masterful. Feelings from a novel I read once almost 50 years ago have stayed with me.
I found a first edition (US) at a sale for 1$. May pick up a modern edition to read.
It’s been 2 years, what Do you think.
Loved this book.
Sounds great, now on my tbr
Me too!
Would have loved to see you will h a bodycam going through that Wales bookstore, how cool! Thanks so much for bringing Ice to us. Can't believe your review! How wonderful. (Not about the authors life, dang!) But still great, and we LOVE psychological stuff.
There really was no redeeming give and take to the relationship between them, the man was all lust, dominance, jealousy and obsession and the girl was an attractive self-obsessed manipulator. I wanted to throw it away but then realized I hadn't read anything quite like it before as Sci-Fi.
@@sergioalcantar3290 I agree with your analysis. I find it beautiful for its exploration of a diseased mind, not for its depiction of a healthy relationship. I actually suspect that the girl has been dead for some time, possibly at the hands of her pursuer, and the latent guilt of that act is part of what drives his madness and obsession.
Great discussion here. Came upon her similarly through Current 93 (or at least made me more interested to read her). We're recording an episode on this one tonight actually, and I think your insights are really spot on, specifically a lot of the stuff about the gendered perspectives in the novel. We did one a while back on Sleep Has His House and I really liked that as well. I think Kavan's voice and vision are just so sui generis really in all of literature.
I just read it and I think he kills both of them in the end, because there's no space for future, or at least this is what he believes.
I loved this book. And after watching your review I now want to reread it )
Maybe you should try reading Kavan's Mercury. It was published posthumously and works very well as a compagnon piece to Ice.
It’s Liquid Metal…
What is your book about in the shelf?
It’s a book about the ways in which society punishes people who look or behave differently by comparing them to demons and devil worshippers. It’s called Conform or Be Cast Out and is available now!
It’s liquid