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Frenzetta

Frenzetta

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Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Spectacularly tasty plot falls victim to poor craftsmansip
Review: I was so anxious to receive this book and read it, just my cup of tea! A reanimated corpse in love with a rat-queen who can't get enough bedtime favors, who leave a trail of destruction in their wake. Wow.

Now the reality check. What sounds like a spectacular idea and a great story is utterly ruined by a first person POV that is so randomly and haphazardly told that it is not only hard to follow but unfathomably boring. There seems to be not a fragment of straightforwardness in Calder's prose, though he also misses out on the poetry of surrealism.

Only 190 pages, it still took me a couple of weeks to labor through Frenzetta, and for all that I was still left un-rewarded with any type of conclusion satisfactory enough to warrant the time I spend tediously wading through paragraphs of random images to find one small sentence that moved the fragmented storyline further towards its finish.

This is not lyricism; it's more like listening to someone with schizophrenia or dementia describe a dream to you, that someone else had. Whew. Save your money and pick up Edward Lee if you want gross, or China Mieville if you want lyricism.


Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Book of the Perverse
Review: Not for the faint of heart and weak of stomach, this is one of the best novels I had the pleasure to read this year. It's a book both wonderful and disturbing in its portrayal of sensuous exoticism and mind-numbing brutality, with Calder's baroque prose rarely, if ever, missing a beat.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Book of the Perverse
Review: Not for the faint of heart and weak of stomach, this is one of the best novels I had the pleasure to read this year. It's a book both wonderful and disturbing in its portrayal of sensuous exoticism and mind-numbing brutality, with Calder's baroque prose rarely, if ever, missing a beat.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Interesting concept
Review: Overall definitely worth reading. I thought there was a little "thesaurus action" here, i.e. using larger words for the impact of the size rather than the story. The concepts of species diversity are fresh and interesting, although as a science guy I would've like some more exploration into that process and how it happened.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Interesting concept
Review: Overall definitely worth reading. I thought there was a little "thesaurus action" here, i.e. using larger words for the impact of the size rather than the story. The concepts of species diversity are fresh and interesting, although as a science guy I would've like some more exploration into that process and how it happened.


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