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gg1213's review
2.0
This was a different sort of read for me, sadly it wasn't my thing.
I noticed a few spelling typos in the beginning (not many, so it can be looked past) and the first chapter got confusing with the points of view.
Really, that's all I'm comfortable saying in this review. Most of the rest of my problems with the book revolve around not enjoying the genre elements of the story.
I noticed a few spelling typos in the beginning (not many, so it can be looked past) and the first chapter got confusing with the points of view.
Really, that's all I'm comfortable saying in this review. Most of the rest of my problems with the book revolve around not enjoying the genre elements of the story.
hsienhsien27's review
4.0
This was given by the author for an honest review
Leo is back with a book that has a pig on the cover. When I saw this for the first time, I was like "What?" and it would make sense for the title. But I thought of that terrible Animal Farm movie with the live action, digitally made pigs. But don't be fooled, it's not about pigs. In the animal sense.
So it starts off with a prologue where you're introduced to the main characters right away, their conflicts, and what causes the spark of the story. Jim, Kate, and George are the main narrators for most of the novel. Xing Hu will also make a come back.
"Rude Vile Pigs is a satirical black comedy set in the city of Sadwhitepeopledrinking, and follows the antics of Jim Joy, a middle-aged alcoholic who accidentally creates a religion dedicated to selfishness. Recently divorced, depressed and living in a squalid flat, Jim realises that his newfound mobility and complete lack of shame can lead him to new exciting depths, doing whatever he wants and encouraging the same of others. Through his alcohol-fuelled misadventures, Jim is about to discover what happens when a society gives in to its basest impulses."
The whole story is a cycle itself, where the characters develop and change into assholes or find their true selves, but still feel confused about themselves. I don't want to go too much in the plot, as usual, but the synopsis basically covers everything.
So what do I have to say about this? Well, lately it has been a rough semester, even after I dropped a class. So due to this, reading gets kind of hard. it's gets slowed down and sometimes it feels like a chore. So I refresh myself by playing video games, but I end up reading anyway. So what am I trying to say? Rude Vile Pigs was one of the few novels I have read this year that I really looked forward to reading, that was hard to put down. It was just so darn fun to read, much like how the beautiful prose of Ashley Mayne's Mankiller was just so absorbent for my mind and moving for the soul.
It was a joy to read something like this. It's a satire, it's funny, yet it's so darn smart in it's humor that it manages to move the reader. It's like one of those comedy movies where toward the end, the main character is like "Wow, now I realize that I have been wrong all along and I should become a new me once again." You know what I'm talking about right? Something close to what I'm saying would be Yes Man.
The character development is wonderful, the characters and voices felt somewhat forced, but yet somehow real.They are alive and sometimes well. I don't know why but I think one of my favorites is Xing Hu, because we're overly studious and awkward as hell. I would cry if someone threw my thesis away, I would be in such despair. Although, you won't see me being some freaking computer science, physics genius. Jim was freaking hilarious, the characters were just so fully fleshed compared to the short stories. I'm pretty sure it's impossible to make a full character in a short story though. Unless the character is the story.
The writing style is similar to the Sinkhole collection but a lot more, how can I say? Developed, clearer, and Leo even threw in some of his Scottish roots into it, reminding me of Irvine Welsh, along with the drugs and nastiness of people in general. I've never read Irvine Welsh, but I know his writing style, which is nothing compared to Leo's when it came to the Scottish. Irvine would take a LONG time to get used to. There was also some graphs and scientific mathematics. I will say that this is 100x different from Findesferas, which is a whole different genre within itself. So this shows that Leo could transition through genres and voices like nothing.
There's the absurdity, illogical, and the grossness of black humor and some sort of lesson in here where you learn that everyone is an asshole in some way or another. There is no route of being a jerk. It kind of has this everyone is a piece of crap vibe and one charismatic person has the ability to make everyone a jerk themselves. And somehow the formatting got messed up in the upper paragraph.
Well, I enjoyed this novel, it was definitely something I needed, a refresher from my usual reading type. He's a self-published writer that really deserves a lot more attention.
Rating: 4.5/5
Originally posted here: http://wordsnotesandfiction.blogspot.com/2014/11/rude-vile-pigs-by-leo-x-robertson-arc.html
Leo is back with a book that has a pig on the cover. When I saw this for the first time, I was like "What?" and it would make sense for the title. But I thought of that terrible Animal Farm movie with the live action, digitally made pigs. But don't be fooled, it's not about pigs. In the animal sense.
So it starts off with a prologue where you're introduced to the main characters right away, their conflicts, and what causes the spark of the story. Jim, Kate, and George are the main narrators for most of the novel. Xing Hu will also make a come back.
"Rude Vile Pigs is a satirical black comedy set in the city of Sadwhitepeopledrinking, and follows the antics of Jim Joy, a middle-aged alcoholic who accidentally creates a religion dedicated to selfishness. Recently divorced, depressed and living in a squalid flat, Jim realises that his newfound mobility and complete lack of shame can lead him to new exciting depths, doing whatever he wants and encouraging the same of others. Through his alcohol-fuelled misadventures, Jim is about to discover what happens when a society gives in to its basest impulses."
The whole story is a cycle itself, where the characters develop and change into assholes or find their true selves, but still feel confused about themselves. I don't want to go too much in the plot, as usual, but the synopsis basically covers everything.
So what do I have to say about this? Well, lately it has been a rough semester, even after I dropped a class. So due to this, reading gets kind of hard. it's gets slowed down and sometimes it feels like a chore. So I refresh myself by playing video games, but I end up reading anyway. So what am I trying to say? Rude Vile Pigs was one of the few novels I have read this year that I really looked forward to reading, that was hard to put down. It was just so darn fun to read, much like how the beautiful prose of Ashley Mayne's Mankiller was just so absorbent for my mind and moving for the soul.
It was a joy to read something like this. It's a satire, it's funny, yet it's so darn smart in it's humor that it manages to move the reader. It's like one of those comedy movies where toward the end, the main character is like "Wow, now I realize that I have been wrong all along and I should become a new me once again." You know what I'm talking about right? Something close to what I'm saying would be Yes Man.
The character development is wonderful, the characters and voices felt somewhat forced, but yet somehow real.They are alive and sometimes well. I don't know why but I think one of my favorites is Xing Hu, because we're overly studious and awkward as hell. I would cry if someone threw my thesis away, I would be in such despair. Although, you won't see me being some freaking computer science, physics genius. Jim was freaking hilarious, the characters were just so fully fleshed compared to the short stories. I'm pretty sure it's impossible to make a full character in a short story though. Unless the character is the story.
The writing style is similar to the Sinkhole collection but a lot more, how can I say? Developed, clearer, and Leo even threw in some of his Scottish roots into it, reminding me of Irvine Welsh, along with the drugs and nastiness of people in general. I've never read Irvine Welsh, but I know his writing style, which is nothing compared to Leo's when it came to the Scottish. Irvine would take a LONG time to get used to. There was also some graphs and scientific mathematics. I will say that this is 100x different from Findesferas, which is a whole different genre within itself. So this shows that Leo could transition through genres and voices like nothing.
There's the absurdity, illogical, and the grossness of black humor and some sort of lesson in here where you learn that everyone is an asshole in some way or another. There is no route of being a jerk. It kind of has this everyone is a piece of crap vibe and one charismatic person has the ability to make everyone a jerk themselves. And somehow the formatting got messed up in the upper paragraph.
Well, I enjoyed this novel, it was definitely something I needed, a refresher from my usual reading type. He's a self-published writer that really deserves a lot more attention.
Rating: 4.5/5
Originally posted here: http://wordsnotesandfiction.blogspot.com/2014/11/rude-vile-pigs-by-leo-x-robertson-arc.html
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