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What a mess!
Disch can usually write well, but the novel he chose to write here just wasn’t worth writing at all. It’s a ludicrous mish-mash of ideas, styles, and characters. And even on the level of paragraphs and dialog, he often fails, writing some of the most tortured exchanges I can remember.
There’s half a good book in here, but you’d have to dig for years to extract it.
Disch can usually write well, but the novel he chose to write here just wasn’t worth writing at all. It’s a ludicrous mish-mash of ideas, styles, and characters. And even on the level of paragraphs and dialog, he often fails, writing some of the most tortured exchanges I can remember.
There’s half a good book in here, but you’d have to dig for years to extract it.
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