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sugarbutterflour 's review for:
Universal Harvester
by John Darnielle
it’s not what i expected, but i didn’t dislike it. it took me about a whole month to read part one—i fell asleep a few times—and then the last three quarters of the book came easily. the prose reads like a maze until you imagine it in darnielle’s voice, his literal voice, in the cadence of going to georgia or similar songs of his. he writes prose like he writes music, and that’s not everybody’s preferred style. i was simultaneously surprised and… completely unsurprised to see donna tartt’s name in the acknowledgments. the style bears a lot of similarity to hers, but i didn’t know she and darnielle were connected to each other at all.
i was expecting this book to be scary, the concept was terrifying for me, and really it was a puzzle box of interwoven mundane tragedies. the mundanity doesn’t make them any less tragic. it’s the kind of story dave malloy would make a musical about.
in fact, can someone inform dave malloy this book exists? has john darnielle ever considered writing a musical? is this the collab i never knew i was waiting for?
i was expecting this book to be scary, the concept was terrifying for me, and really it was a puzzle box of interwoven mundane tragedies. the mundanity doesn’t make them any less tragic. it’s the kind of story dave malloy would make a musical about.
in fact, can someone inform dave malloy this book exists? has john darnielle ever considered writing a musical? is this the collab i never knew i was waiting for?