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chamrosh's reviews
98 reviews
challenging
dark
funny
Like pregnant women lose their teeth feeding the stranger, junkies lose their yellow fangs feeding the monkey.
Utterly baffling. I still don't understand most of the story, because the way he writes is like his brain opened up and word-vomited his nightmares on the page.. But also partly because I couldn't read one or two pages at a time before being hit by a sudden urge to write my ass off. I started writing three short stories while I was reading this.. the insane jumbled sentences & descriptions really did it for me!! I also found Naked Lunch fascinating because of the author's history with drugs (the fact that he's done everything in the [metaphorical] book is obvious, even if you hadn't known about Burroughs before picking this up) & how he describes his experiences in the post-'narrative' chapters. Will probably read again, but not any time soon.
dark
funny
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Loveable characters:
Yes
Death by nursery tale. Hell's bells.
In some ways this was way weaker than Storm Front, but I liked it a lot better in others! It was a lot more openly grim, & the murder scenes were all so..cool. Cool!!
I love all these characters, they're so stupid & silly.. Harry and Marcone bickering ws crazy they have no sense or priorities. I LOVE TERA! It kind of amused me and pissed me off at the same time how Harry kept stopping in the middle of life or death battles to make note of stuff like 'Murphy had cute earlobes.' ??? why. Murphy pissed me off too! I've heard she gets way better and becomes one of the best characters as the books go on, but right now she's like.. doing police brutality whenever Harry breathes. It's got to be one hell of a redemption.
I love all these characters, they're so stupid & silly.. Harry and Marcone bickering ws crazy they have no sense or priorities. I LOVE TERA! It kind of amused me and pissed me off at the same time how Harry kept stopping in the middle of life or death battles to make note of stuff like 'Murphy had cute earlobes.' ??? why. Murphy pissed me off too! I've heard she gets way better and becomes one of the best characters as the books go on, but right now she's like.. doing police brutality whenever Harry breathes. It's got to be one hell of a redemption.
adventurous
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
The voices seemed to whisper in Rand’s ears, right at the brink of understanding, and within it. Flesh so fine, so fine to tear, to gash the skin; skin to strip, to plait, so nice to plait the strips, so nice, so red the drops that fall . . .
I FINISHED! THANK THE LIGHT! The setup is sooo long and in the beginning it wears on you, the endless descriptions of various taverns and farms that don't even last a full scene, and the way the book lingers on the thoughts of the characters for such an extreme amount of time. But halfway through, after the action picked up and all, I found myself really enjoying the details that I'd hated before. It really paints a vivid picture and you feel like you're right there with the characters, whose thoughts and actions become a lot more engaging once you've come to know them. I didn't fall in love with the world or story through this, but I'm so so intrigued to read more, especially for where it left off. Blessed because I was gifted the second book for Christmas!!.. Although I might not get to it for a while.
adventurous
lighthearted
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Hello, War . . . I see you're going through a medieval European phase again.
I picked this up at a convention a few years ago, but didn't get around to it until now. Loved the concepts a lot, but the majority of the characters fell short, & the story seemed like it needed some editing. The prose also wasn't really what I look for. Will say that I loved the four horsemen, especially War <3. & once Death actually figured things out, it was much more engaging.
medium-paced
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
"I offer you helplessness," she said. "I offer you insignificance in the face of a world that thinks nothing of you. I offer you the cold, sick fear of not knowing."
And the goddess took it and was gone.
and then I transformed into a fish or a gnat and then some mist and I observed it all and then I flew up into the sky and observed from there and I observed and made sure the audience knew deep in their hearts that I was also observing for 400 pages!
If you couldn't tell, I didn't appreciate the narrator. At the beginning I thought it was fun, but it soon became grating to read descriptions of the narrator purposefully accomplishing pure nothing over and over, & was it really necessary for EVERY scene to have a moment where the narrator went and described exactly how and where they watched the events transpire? & the humor in general I came to find annoying!! Didn't end up enjoying many of the characters, especially hated the Duke and Miss Bickle. Mitchelmore and Caesar were the only two I ended up really enjoying spending time around. I was blessed that Mitchelmore was the main character, but almost everyone around her.. uhg.h.
If you couldn't tell, I didn't appreciate the narrator. At the beginning I thought it was fun, but it soon became grating to read descriptions of the narrator purposefully accomplishing pure nothing over and over, & was it really necessary for EVERY scene to have a moment where the narrator went and described exactly how and where they watched the events transpire? & the humor in general I came to find annoying!! Didn't end up enjoying many of the characters, especially hated the Duke and Miss Bickle. Mitchelmore and Caesar were the only two I ended up really enjoying spending time around. I was blessed that Mitchelmore was the main character, but almost everyone around her.. uhg.h.
