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A review by sampauwels
Queer Villains of Myth and Legend by Dan Jones
informative
fast-paced
1.75
Bought this for the cover and the title, got very excited when I got home and saw my girl missy as one of the entries, I ran over to my dad screaming about it. Quickly became more and more dissapointed when I started reading.
This book feels chaotic, unordered, and like someones desktop folder of random essays they wrote without doublechecking sources. Some entries feel like they are nothing but regurgitated content of other people, in a way that makes me wonder if the author even knows anything about the story and character they are claiming to talk about.
And don't get me started on the humor in this book. It is very slangy, very internet, and very hello fellow kids, and mostly just overdone. Some of it would maybe have been funny if it had been used once, but if every sentence contains a very similar joke, the joke does not really joke anymore. IT WAS ANNOYING.
AND I AM SO MAD ABOUT THE CHAPTER ON FRANKENSTEIN. DID YOU EVEN READ THE BOOK???? How are you going to deticate a chapter to Frankenstein without mentioning the titular character??? The whole chapter is just about the monster, which I get, a lot of queer people relate to the monster. But how did you manage to ignore the absolute gayness that is this novel. Absolutely no mention of Victor and Henry's ~very suspicious~ relationship, no mention of Walton falling very obviously in love with the very obvious queer villain Victor Frankenstein whos name is literally the name of the book???
Also, in a lot of the other chapters, the author talks and/or speculates about some of the authors sexualities, but there is no mention of Mary Shelleys bisexuality, which tbh I just find kind of strange. It really just feels like the author threw whatever they wanted onto the pages of this book without doing any aditional research, I'm sorry.
This book feels chaotic, unordered, and like someones desktop folder of random essays they wrote without doublechecking sources. Some entries feel like they are nothing but regurgitated content of other people, in a way that makes me wonder if the author even knows anything about the story and character they are claiming to talk about.
And don't get me started on the humor in this book. It is very slangy, very internet, and very hello fellow kids, and mostly just overdone. Some of it would maybe have been funny if it had been used once, but if every sentence contains a very similar joke, the joke does not really joke anymore. IT WAS ANNOYING.
AND I AM SO MAD ABOUT THE CHAPTER ON FRANKENSTEIN. DID YOU EVEN READ THE BOOK???? How are you going to deticate a chapter to Frankenstein without mentioning the titular character??? The whole chapter is just about the monster, which I get, a lot of queer people relate to the monster. But how did you manage to ignore the absolute gayness that is this novel. Absolutely no mention of Victor and Henry's ~very suspicious~ relationship, no mention of Walton falling very obviously in love with the very obvious queer villain Victor Frankenstein whos name is literally the name of the book???
Also, in a lot of the other chapters, the author talks and/or speculates about some of the authors sexualities, but there is no mention of Mary Shelleys bisexuality, which tbh I just find kind of strange. It really just feels like the author threw whatever they wanted onto the pages of this book without doing any aditional research, I'm sorry.