by Blake Butler
This is quite possibly the darkest novel I have ever, or will ever, read. Yup. It's THAT dark. What makes it so incredibly dark is the complete absence of light. Seriously. There is nothing light-hearted or hopeful. The apocalypse has happened, death is inevitable, and all there is left to do is wai...
All the time I have been reading this I have had a nagging feeling of recognition to my ongoing reaction, as if there were something rotten stuck in my mouth. I have finally pinned it down. Kafka’s Metamorphosis. Remember poor Gregor, wakes up one morning to discover he has turned into a cockroach? ...
Not so much a novel as a mood piece. The book is a series of short pieces which all follow similar themes (think: rot, bloating, pustulence).If the author had been in one of my creative writing seminars in college, and this work was what he presented in class, I would have thought it very promising....
Not exactly a review, but I do mention this book in one of my book vlog videos. Click the image below to watch (opens in YouTube).SCORCH ATLAS, more than most of Butler's, really has the Brian Evenson dystopia going on. In a completely complimentary. Essentially, take Evenson's DARK PROPERTY and mix...
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