Take a photo of a barcode or cover
3.52 AVERAGE
3.52 AVERAGE
dark
mysterious
tense
fast-paced
dark
tense
fast-paced
I've learned to be interested in stories about degenerates thanks to Chuck Palahniuk, but these people were just too tedious in their dysfunction. At least the concept was interesting.
This would have been better as a short story or novella. I can only take so many pages of shit, piss, cum, and pus descriptions before I become (something worse than grossed out) bored.
I stuck with this book because the premise was so intriguing and I wanted to see what happened with the mysterious holes (the funhole and the hole in Nicholas’s hand). However, I realize now that all I was in store for was page after page of rambling repetitious stream of consciousness and an ending that felt incomplete.
I stuck with this book because the premise was so intriguing and I wanted to see what happened with the mysterious holes (the funhole and the hole in Nicholas’s hand). However, I realize now that all I was in store for was page after page of rambling repetitious stream of consciousness and an ending that felt incomplete.
challenging
dark
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Overwritten, narrated by an insipid, dull, masochistic man, Nicholas, who worships an obnoxious, controlling boring bully of a woman, Nakota.
Kathe Koja takes a great concept - an alien/other hole in a storage room that transfigures in hideous, strange ways anything inserted into it - and drags the plot and story out over what felt like several hundred plodding pages but in fact was only 356. So disappointing, especially given that the novel won the Bram Stoker, and the Locus, both of which are prestigious awards.
Kathe Koja takes a great concept - an alien/other hole in a storage room that transfigures in hideous, strange ways anything inserted into it - and drags the plot and story out over what felt like several hundred plodding pages but in fact was only 356. So disappointing, especially given that the novel won the Bram Stoker, and the Locus, both of which are prestigious awards.
dark
mysterious
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
dark
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
dark
tense
slow-paced