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A review by vgk
The Sunken Land Begins to Rise Again by M. John Harrison
mysterious
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
1.0
I have no idea what this book is about. I ended up stopping at page 156, after reading this passage, which pretty much sums the entire book up:
'It hasn't got much of a story, ' she said. 'This book of yours.'
Shaw admitted that it hadn't. Line by line it was as disorganised as The Water House itself. Stories reproduced from every type of science periodical appeared cheek-by-jowl with listicle and urban myth. These essentially unrelated objects were connected by grammatically correct means to produce apparently causal relationships. Perfectly sound pivots, such as 'however' or 'while it remains true that', connected propositions empty of any actual meaning, as if the writer had learned to mimic sentence structure without having any idea how to link it to its own content. It would be incorrect, Shaw thought, to describe the data as 'cherry-picked', since that would imply an argument they had been chosen to fit. Instead. they were part of an endless list.
Honestly, who has the time for this rubbish?
'It hasn't got much of a story, ' she said. 'This book of yours.'
Shaw admitted that it hadn't. Line by line it was as disorganised as The Water House itself. Stories reproduced from every type of science periodical appeared cheek-by-jowl with listicle and urban myth. These essentially unrelated objects were connected by grammatically correct means to produce apparently causal relationships. Perfectly sound pivots, such as 'however' or 'while it remains true that', connected propositions empty of any actual meaning, as if the writer had learned to mimic sentence structure without having any idea how to link it to its own content. It would be incorrect, Shaw thought, to describe the data as 'cherry-picked', since that would imply an argument they had been chosen to fit. Instead. they were part of an endless list.
Honestly, who has the time for this rubbish?