A review by aleffert
Age of Wire and String: Stories by Ben Marcus

3.0

As far as I can tell this book is mostly nonsense. It's Experimental with a capital E, more a catalog than a novel, seemingly describing relatively mundane things, only bizarre versions of them and some of the words aren't being used like you think they are. There's sort of a Codex Seraphinianus like almost coherent but actually bugfuck nuts feeling to it, but it wasn't nearly as compelling. Occasionally the descriptions are laugh out loud hilarious in their oddness and incongruity and bits of the writing can be delightful, but over all it was hard to get through despite being quite short.