by Jan Irving
For a while there I thought I was going to die of compassion.Now? I'm pretty sure I've been trolled.This story is an incredible number of good and important ideas, gathered up together by kind and tender hands, mounded up into an appealing shape, doused with gasoline, set-fire-to, and kicked directl...
The cover kind of annoyed me at first, but it's only briefly. It's gorgeous and full of raw intensity. It's quite cool, actually.There is a lot of emphasis on relative positions. (The whole top/bottom thing.) Was kind of overdone, actually. It's quite awkwardly obvious. Which is awkward.But oh, man....
I was very impressed with this story. And while it contained enough sad moments to not re-read it any time soon, it was also beautiful, heart-wrenching and touching. It reminded me a bit of Tim.The only small things that bothered me were that there was no clear delineation of the passage of time and...
From the cover I went in expecting a boxer type who was kinda blue collar and rough around the edges. Yeah, and maybe a little dirty. heh. I can see what the author was trying to accomplish, but there is a difference between a character who is a little dim, to someone who needs a caregiver. The elem...
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