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[kproche]

I'm trying to recall the name of a novel.

It begins with the narrator (a rather self-centered, clod-headed fellow who thinks he is clever) being washed ashore as the sole survivor of a shipwreck.

He then proceeds through a series of adventures, becoming a bit less self-centered and clod-headed along the way.

What is unique about the book is that everything on island is a reference to other literary works and myths -- Moby Dick, the island of Circe, etc, etc.

It's driving me nuts because it's a book I used to re-read just to find new literary allusions.

I'm sure some of y'all have read it. lferion -- I'm certain you have.

Any help?

ETA Thank you, collective Internet memory. It is indeed Silverlock

Comments

[baronlaw.livejournal.com]

Silverlock

[sarahbellem.livejournal.com]

Yep, that was my guess, too. :)

Funny, but I was just thinking about the book recently. I haven't read it in years, but it was a favorite of my father's...

[baronlaw.livejournal.com]

John Meyers Meyers, good book. I am informed there was even a sequel of sorts but have not read it.

[moonpuppy61.livejournal.com]

I also think its Silverlock.

I read it but it just didn't resonate with me. Other of my friends love it.

[nohwhere-man.livejournal.com]

Funny, it's sitting on my to-be-read shelf.

[nolly.livejournal.com]

everything on island is a reference to other literary works and myths

*light goes on*

I should re-read that, now that I have many more of the reference points than I did the first time. I don't think I got it at all.

[starherd.livejournal.com]

holy smokes, I actually knew that one o_O It was a favorite of my dad's, though I only got halfway through before I decided I liked the first half better and stopped. I was 12. :-P First book I ever put down. Wonder where that is now...