A review by hyzenthlay76
Half Life by Shelley Jackson

2.0

I could give this one more star for weirdness alone, but when it comes down to what I really value in a story, this one didn't have it. I didn't care about the characters, other than a morbid fascination with what they would do or say next. Jackson is wildly imaginative, her Siamese musings incredible, her wordplay cunning and acrobatic, but I never got lost in the story. Jackson was too predominant a personality in her own work and I just kept thinking "wow, she's clever!" It drips with subculture dogma and some of the sexuality was off the deep end. The book was also about 100 pages too long, and the ending a complete surrealist disaster.