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fieldri1968 's review for:
The King in Yellow
by Robert W. Chambers
This is a strange book. It is a series of loosely linked short stories which seems to shun the portmanteau label which might be applicable in other circumstances.
The early stories revolve around a story which cannot be read without the reader dying. The story regards 'The King In Yellow' of the title, and a strange collection they are. The first one describes a weird dystopia where suicide has just been legalised and the state has started to build suicide machines for the use of the populace. But the story isn't really about that...
I can't really explain it any more clearly than that. It was interesting, and I enjoyed it enough to read it all the way through. Make of that what you will.
The Wikipedia page on the book is an interesting summary of its odd content (spoiler!): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_King_in_Yellow
The early stories revolve around a story which cannot be read without the reader dying. The story regards 'The King In Yellow' of the title, and a strange collection they are. The first one describes a weird dystopia where suicide has just been legalised and the state has started to build suicide machines for the use of the populace. But the story isn't really about that...
I can't really explain it any more clearly than that. It was interesting, and I enjoyed it enough to read it all the way through. Make of that what you will.
The Wikipedia page on the book is an interesting summary of its odd content (spoiler!): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_King_in_Yellow