Part Jaws, part Memento, and part typographic experiment ,The Raw Shark Texts is a nonsensical romp through a quirky alternate reality that ends on a head-scratchingly confusing note. ” The animal hunting you is a Ludovician. It is an example of one of the many species of purely conceptual fish which swim in the flows […]
# 5 (of 2013)· The Corrections → a novel by Jonathan Franzen (2001) “And when the event, the big change in your life, is simply an insight– isn’t that a strange thing? That absolutely nothing changes except that you see things differently and you’re less fearful and less anxious and generally stronger as a result: […]
This time around, I’m going to take a break from reading classic literature, and explore something more contemporary. The subject of this review? The Rithmatist, a young adult fantasy novel which features magic chalk drawings. Yes. This book’s system of magic is based off of the legal, semi-permanent form of vandalism popular with children. An idea […]
I turned [the page] over and gave an exclamation of surprise. There was a full page picture of the most extraordinary creature I had ever seen. It was the wild dream of an opium smoker, a vision of delirium. The head was like that of a fowl, the body that of a bloated lizard, the trailing […]
“Now that those who practise justice do so involuntarily and because they have not the power to be unjust will best appear if we imagine something of this kind: having given both to the just and the unjust power to do what they will, let us watch and see whither desire will lead them; then we shall discover in […]
A couple of years ago, on a whim, I decided to take a look at the Gentleman Bastard sequence by Scott Lynch, a series about a ragtag bunch of con artists living in Camorr, a fantasy equivalent of medieval Venice, Italy. I was partially drawn to these books by the overwhelmingly positive reviews on the interwebs and […]
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