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A review by patrickwreed
The Vorrh by Brian Catling
5.0
Quite possibly one of the strangest books I've ever read.
It's difficult to say if it lived up to the immense praise in the reviews from the likes of Alan Moore, Iain Sinclair, Terry Gilliam and Tom Waits, though I'm not sure anything ever really could have. In spite of that, it is clearly a unique book and a work of singular genius - sharing something of the hallucinogenic dream logic of Gabriel Garcia Marquez's "One Hundred Years Of Solitude", some of the fantastical intrigue of Haruki Murakami's "Hard-Boiled Wonderland & The End Of The World", and a blending of historical fact and fantasy akin to Alan Moore or Michael Moorcock at their most ambitiously playful, yet standing entirely apart from all those analogies.
It's difficult to say if it lived up to the immense praise in the reviews from the likes of Alan Moore, Iain Sinclair, Terry Gilliam and Tom Waits, though I'm not sure anything ever really could have. In spite of that, it is clearly a unique book and a work of singular genius - sharing something of the hallucinogenic dream logic of Gabriel Garcia Marquez's "One Hundred Years Of Solitude", some of the fantastical intrigue of Haruki Murakami's "Hard-Boiled Wonderland & The End Of The World", and a blending of historical fact and fantasy akin to Alan Moore or Michael Moorcock at their most ambitiously playful, yet standing entirely apart from all those analogies.