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lbrex's review against another edition
4.0
I'm reviewing _The Night Land_ here, which is the bulk of this edited volume. The story seems to have fewer errors than the Dover edition I read last time, though it is difficult to know for sure given the deliberately rambling, archaic style that is adopted by Hodgson's questing male narrator.
There is so much that is fascinating about this book--the threateningly vague threat of the "House of Silence" being perhaps the most fascinating--but so much that is annoying. It is way too long, and the vision of love that the book promotes at length becomes fairly nauseating by the time the book is over. Still, I just can't keep my readerly attention away from something so transparently bizarre. I'm not going to say much more here, other than that I will be including some discussion of this in my book project.
There is so much that is fascinating about this book--the threateningly vague threat of the "House of Silence" being perhaps the most fascinating--but so much that is annoying. It is way too long, and the vision of love that the book promotes at length becomes fairly nauseating by the time the book is over. Still, I just can't keep my readerly attention away from something so transparently bizarre. I'm not going to say much more here, other than that I will be including some discussion of this in my book project.
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