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My Work is Not Yet Done: Three Tales of Corporate Horror
by Thomas Ligotti
Did not finish (DNF) this one.
I'm a fan of bizarro and weird fiction books, but I didn't care for this one. It feels very overwritten, to the detriment of the story. Ligotti will take two pages to say two sentences and it becomes tedious. I was enjoying this up until the first story started to get supernatural.
The supernatural turn didn't feel like other weird books I've read, it just sort of... Happened. Our protagonist can now ooze about in the darkness and do horrible things to people that aren't actually possible. Like turn them into a pig, or a parasite, or trap them in a series of doors with no end. I expected so much more. I wish it explored the mundanity of office life more. Instead it felt like I was reading an embarrassing manifesto from an imaginative murderer.
I don't need protagonists to be moral or good, but I do need them to be interesting. Elaborate deaths and page upon page about the darkness of humans ain't it for me.
I'm a fan of bizarro and weird fiction books, but I didn't care for this one. It feels very overwritten, to the detriment of the story. Ligotti will take two pages to say two sentences and it becomes tedious. I was enjoying this up until the first story started to get supernatural.
The supernatural turn didn't feel like other weird books I've read, it just sort of... Happened. Our protagonist can now ooze about in the darkness and do horrible things to people that aren't actually possible. Like turn them into a pig, or a parasite, or trap them in a series of doors with no end. I expected so much more. I wish it explored the mundanity of office life more. Instead it felt like I was reading an embarrassing manifesto from an imaginative murderer.
I don't need protagonists to be moral or good, but I do need them to be interesting. Elaborate deaths and page upon page about the darkness of humans ain't it for me.