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A review by jasminenoack
Tintin in the New World: A Romance by Frederic Tuten
3.0
This book is super reminiscent of magic mountain, and on actually thinking about it, was the reason I even tried to read magic mountain. I'm as a rule not great at remembering character names, so I didn't realize that the book was using the supporting cast of magic mountain (in fact I couldn't even tell you the name of the main character from magic mountain). But about 30 pages in I thought to myself this writing is really very reminiscent of magic mountain.
This book is what would happen if you got out a blender and threw in the movie 9, latin american mythology, china mieville (of un lun dun and kraken not so much the city and the city), magic mountain, umberto eco (specifically his ideas on modernism and irony), and vanilla ice cream and made a shake.
There isn't much that could be brought up about the plot without spoiling parts of the book. Don't read the introduction before you read it.
The book holds fast on some nice solid mocking and is just more generally an interesting read.
I don't know about this book specifically but greg I think you might like the author.
also:
This book is what would happen if you got out a blender and threw in the movie 9, latin american mythology, china mieville (of un lun dun and kraken not so much the city and the city), magic mountain, umberto eco (specifically his ideas on modernism and irony), and vanilla ice cream and made a shake.
There isn't much that could be brought up about the plot without spoiling parts of the book. Don't read the introduction before you read it.
The book holds fast on some nice solid mocking and is just more generally an interesting read.
I don't know about this book specifically but greg I think you might like the author.
also: