Recently I tried to read in Edgar Rice Burroughs - my boyhood favorite - Lost on Venus; and I was appalled at how bad the writing was. Using the word “hideous” to describe the snakes, for example, four times in two pages. The melodramatic action was compelling enough, but rather…
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Review of The Circle, by Dave Eggers
The Circle, by Dave Eggers (note: spoiler alert!) It’s funny, after reading this book I have mixed feelings about posting a review. Part of the genius of The Circle is putting the main character (Mae) in a position we are progressively drawn to question. At the end we must, like…
Plot, Character and Language in George Saunders’ Tenth of December
Reading these stories, it gets under your skin. It’s with you if you read before sleep, and again on waking in the morning. The forced-immigrant SGs with their wires through the brain, strung as ornaments in suburban gardens, and the poor journal narrator whose speech devolves into ESL-speak… the victims…
Jumbo Pass: The Edge of Tomorrow
The novella Rendezvous at Jumbo Pass is based on a real-life adventure, a tale of survival in the heart of wilderness: Jumbo Pass, situated between the East and West Kootenay valleys in southeast British Columbia. That pristine wilderness is threatened by a massive tourist development for the benefit an Italian megacorp. Despite rubberstamp…
