Freaknest

Rating:
Summary: A let down after _Burnt_
Review: This is the second novel I've read by Lance Olsen and as you have probably figured out by now, I liked the other one better.

This novel has a strange uneveness to it. The first hundred pages are filled with exotic descriptions of strange places and people, almost so much that the story barely crawls along (but what an amazing crawl). It's like Anne Rice writing cyberpunk. The character is walking from point A to point B. Five pages of description later, he is almost there and it was a mind blowing five pages. Rice writes beautiful descriptive passages, Olsen writes acid trip, 1000-ideas-a-second, manifestos. So as far as a coherent story goes, I'm not sure how it holds up, but as for enjoyment it's definitely a lot of fun.

The uneveness comes with the rest of the story, which moves much faster and becomes a long chase scene. Olsen uses many accents (and colloquialisms) in the book so that I was often lost as to the meaning of what some of the characters were saying.

In many ways this novel reminded me of Jeff Noon's _Vurt_ so if you liked _Vurt_, then you should give it a try.

Rating:
Summary: A let down after _Burnt_
Review: This is the second novel I've read by Lance Olsen and as you have probably figured out by now, I liked the other one better.

This novel has a strange uneveness to it. The first hundred pages are filled with exotic descriptions of strange places and people, almost so much that the story barely crawls along (but what an amazing crawl). It's like Anne Rice writing cyberpunk. The character is walking from point A to point B. Five pages of description later, he is almost there and it was a mind blowing five pages. Rice writes beautiful descriptive passages, Olsen writes acid trip, 1000-ideas-a-second, manifestos. So as far as a coherent story goes, I'm not sure how it holds up, but as for enjoyment it's definitely a lot of fun.

The uneveness comes with the rest of the story, which moves much faster and becomes a long chase scene. Olsen uses many accents (and colloquialisms) in the book so that I was often lost as to the meaning of what some of the characters were saying.

In many ways this novel reminded me of Jeff Noon's _Vurt_ so if you liked _Vurt_, then you should give it a try.