Actual rating: 1.5 starsWhen I was assigned to read this book, I was told that it was a book about werewolves written in verse. Immediately, I knew that this concept could either be really cool or be really pretentious and annoying. Unfortunately, it was the latter for me.Usually when I dislike a bo...
I am nota fan of verse even free verse. I like proper grammar andparagraphs and commas. So I was wary aboutreading this book when I sawcrazy staggering lines of text wandering around my nook screen. ***Buta friend's review made me reconsiderand so I read the book and I mostly liked it. Mostly. Mostl...
3.5/5; 4 stars; B+I really enjoyed this book even though this is not my usual book. In fact, this is the first book I've seen that is written in the format of a long poem or verse. Its a story of gangs and drugs and life on the streets but its also a story of vengeance and even love. It took a ...
Barlow's free verse novel about the werewolves of L.A. may be a conceit, but I'll be damned if it isn't one that delivers.Could this book have succeeded as a prose novel? Of course it would have, but Barlow taps into powerful imagery that emphasizes the highs and lows, gore and tenderness that would...
An interesting read on many levels. The quick, sharp writing and fast-moving plot will pull you in, but there is plenty to probe beneath the story line as well.
Barlow takes the Homeric fire, tosses on a bunch of kerosene, toasts a couple of marshmallows until they bubble blackly, and then eats them with a grin. Then he throws on a couple of tires for good measure and leans back for a long, slow pull on a hip-flask. Man. I've been doing the sputtering flail...
Werewolves in free verse with carne asada tacos.Now that I got my one-liner out of the way, Sharp Teeth is an original horror tale that never lets the reader off. I read it in two sittings, interrupted only by the fact that my wife and I had tickets for a jazz concert and she wouldn't let me stay ho...
I enjoyed this--swallowed it almost whole, in two sittings--but perhaps was a bit overhyped . . . or just less sold by the merits so wonderfully, persuasively pitched by GR reviewer extraordinaire David Giltinan. David's review is better than mine will be, and I'd mostly echo his attention to the w...
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