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A review by funktious
Ghostland: In Search of a Haunted Country by Edward Parnell
emotional
informative
mysterious
reflective
sad
slow-paced
3.5
This is a difficult book to review. On the one hand, it's clearly a deeply personal book for the author who has experienced a lot of tragedy in his life and hopefully found this exploration of supernatural fiction and the landscapes that inspired it cathartic.
But unfortunately the sheer volume of miscellany made it a difficult book to engage with. Its incredibly difficult to follow the threads of the narrative when they take so many twists and turns and you find yourself reading about a completely different subject from one paragraph to the next.
There is plenty of good reading in here and an excellent bibliography that will send you down many rabbit holes. But it wasn't the five star read I was hoping it would be from the cover and blurb.
But unfortunately the sheer volume of miscellany made it a difficult book to engage with. Its incredibly difficult to follow the threads of the narrative when they take so many twists and turns and you find yourself reading about a completely different subject from one paragraph to the next.
There is plenty of good reading in here and an excellent bibliography that will send you down many rabbit holes. But it wasn't the five star read I was hoping it would be from the cover and blurb.