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A review by ladymirkwood
House of Holes by Nicholson Baker
1.0
This is first book I have read where I've begrudged it the paper it was written upon. Far from being the clever, erotic masterpeice the blurb implies, it's more like the feverish, horny imaginings of a pubescent boy.
The story is oddly fragmented, the dialogue akin to bad 70's porn and there is nothing to propel the reader onwards ( unless you want deeply unsexy juvenille smut -then you're fine!).
I'm not sure what the Author was hoping to achieve, or what I as a reader was meant to get from it. It was not arousing in the least, just bewildering bad and worse, boring. The only entertainment to be derived from this book was to play a game of 'Spot-the-ridiculous-euphemism-for-genitals'. Yes, it's that bad.
So, all things told, it's a new literary low point in my reading life!
The story is oddly fragmented, the dialogue akin to bad 70's porn and there is nothing to propel the reader onwards ( unless you want deeply unsexy juvenille smut -then you're fine!).
I'm not sure what the Author was hoping to achieve, or what I as a reader was meant to get from it. It was not arousing in the least, just bewildering bad and worse, boring. The only entertainment to be derived from this book was to play a game of 'Spot-the-ridiculous-euphemism-for-genitals'. Yes, it's that bad.
So, all things told, it's a new literary low point in my reading life!