Tag: review
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Subversions and Systemic Inequality
This book took the magic-school premise, walked it over to the dark side and then dialled it up to 11. Its a book about systemic inequality, racism, and being f*** angry at the world.
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Perfectly Detached
A lot of classic music anecdotes. There is little here to hold the attention of readers outside the industry.
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Trying to Make the Bugs into Features
A long and impassioned rant about a book that fails on almost every conceivable angle written by a author who smugly suggests the problem must be the reader.
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Literary Fiction Pretending to be Fantasy
Dont be fooled by the pretty cover this is literary fiction all the way. But does use the fantasy elements to good effect.
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Oblique Conversations
Nuanced, immersive, and macabre. This book delivers so much more than the first. Settle down for a long discussion of what it all meant and why I loved it.
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Undermining Your Own Themes
Not worth the hype. A story that is constantly undermining its own themes with strange changes of direction.
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The Great War in Context
An eye-opening investigation of the Great War, arguing that nearly everything we think about it is misleading at best.
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Too Many Themes
A queer, Jewish, immigrant story that falls victim to a confused vision and a muddled structure.
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Orgasmic Descriptions of Food
This book had so much potential. An engaging misanthrope protagonist, a delightfully anachronistic world, an intriguing premise. And it wasted it all with a plot that went nowhere.
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Labyrinthine Turns of the Internal Mind
Literary fiction at its finest. A cant-put-down book that holds a mirror to the world while holding the reader captivated.