Title: It ruined me on Delany for life
Product review: I read Dhalgren some 22 years ago, at the age of 16. I have been bitter towards Delany and all his works ever since. A book such as Dhalgren, with its fantastic imagery and inexplicable happenings is nothing but a cheat if there is no enlightment forthcoming somewhere in the story. To DRAG IT ON for 100's and 100's of pages is more than an author's whim; it's a deliberate thumbing of his nose at the reader.I don't know what type of "life changing event" the author had made his own. I only know that since spending a month of my 16 year old life devouring this book whenever I had a chance, and feeling so cheated (and laughed at by the Author) at the unsatisfying end, I will never read, purchase or even line a bird cage with another Delany book.Leave this one on the shelf. At least there it balances the weight of the worthy books on either side.
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