by Samuel Sattin
New Review! Look! Look! I liked, 3 stars' worth, a SUPERHERO NOVEL!! http://tinyurl.com/pgjerx5 It was fun, and parts were funny...bits were poignant...you know, good-novel stuff like that. Samuel Sattin gets props for deft writing.
I'm all over the map on this book. An over-the-top look at fathers and sons, Sattin's novel was blackly hilarious and a bit overwrought. Stylistical, I was reminded of Michael Chabon and Gary Shteyngart (with a little visual and linguistic nods to Guy Ritchie), the novel follows Lenard Sikophsky/L...
I'm not going to deny that it took me a very long time to finish this. League of Somebodies is a book that seems to defy a genre categorization. It's wild, wordy, and at times I was all but lost as I tried to puzzle my way through what was going on with Lenard and his insane father. However for some...
Via http://onlectus.blogspot.com/2013/07/league-of-somebodies-by-samuel-sattin.htmlWhat an agglomeration of pompous diatribe. So numerous bound rectos and leafs filled with coded and highly superfluous parlance ostensibly designed to exhibit the author’s knowledge of such non-lexical vocables rather...
I... do not know what to make of this.
Abandoned due to profanity, graphic sexual descriptions, anti-female and anti-religious contentA Scottish/Jewish/Polish boy is brought up to believe he has a special destiny as an extractor of justice, and raises his son in the same, in order to defeat a violent organization known as THEY.“The truth...
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