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A review by grayjay
The Familiar, Volume 2: Into the Forest by Mark Z. Danielewski
1.0
I'm not sure why I read the second book. I didn't really care about any of the narratives by the end of the first one, but I think I trusted that there must be payoff in project as big as Danieliewski is attempting.
The style is so thick that wading through it overwhelms the narrative, and it's just not worth it for a story about a girl finding a cat in the street. Sure, there are more sinister things going on: some sort of Mexican gang stuff; a group of obscure computer programmer sorcerers or something. I started skipping whole chapters because I just didn't care enough to slog through the poor open-field poetry and lazy dialogue. I think I gave it a good try but after two 800+ page books about nothing, I'm done.
The style is so thick that wading through it overwhelms the narrative, and it's just not worth it for a story about a girl finding a cat in the street. Sure, there are more sinister things going on: some sort of Mexican gang stuff; a group of obscure computer programmer sorcerers or something. I started skipping whole chapters because I just didn't care enough to slog through the poor open-field poetry and lazy dialogue. I think I gave it a good try but after two 800+ page books about nothing, I'm done.