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Hummingbird Salamander
by Jeff VanderMeer
3.45/5 rounded down
Jeff Vandermeer is one of my favourite writers and Hummingbird Salamander is one of my least favourite of his books. A strange, confusing, frightening vision of today and, eventually, tomorrow, presented from the perspective of a woman whose life is unravelling. Why is it unravelling? Well, for confusing reasons, starting with an unhappy childhood and ending with a taxidermied hummingbird. Our protagonist is on a vision quest, dangling from one clue to the next, in search for a woman and, eventually, a fate that might destroy or save the world. "A restauration of hte health of the world".
I really like Vandermeer's prose here. It's chaotic, obsessive, with an inner poetry of madness and survival. Repetitions give it a hypnotic quality at times. I like the narrative less, it feels like a lot of the story is hybris, some parts seem to be, not filler, as they are well written, but superfluous.
But hey, my man can write and that's why you are reading a book.
Jeff Vandermeer is one of my favourite writers and Hummingbird Salamander is one of my least favourite of his books. A strange, confusing, frightening vision of today and, eventually, tomorrow, presented from the perspective of a woman whose life is unravelling. Why is it unravelling? Well, for confusing reasons, starting with an unhappy childhood and ending with a taxidermied hummingbird. Our protagonist is on a vision quest, dangling from one clue to the next, in search for a woman and, eventually, a fate that might destroy or save the world. "A restauration of hte health of the world".
I really like Vandermeer's prose here. It's chaotic, obsessive, with an inner poetry of madness and survival. Repetitions give it a hypnotic quality at times. I like the narrative less, it feels like a lot of the story is hybris, some parts seem to be, not filler, as they are well written, but superfluous.
But hey, my man can write and that's why you are reading a book.