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Tannat
Tannat rated it 11 years ago
As usual with short stories, only a few were interesting. Quite a few here were dull, frankly. I only read it for John Park's Nightward, really (it landed squarely in the interesting bucket btw). Heat Death (Patrick Johanneson), Flight of Passage (Jon Martin Watts), and One Nation Under Gods (Jer...
Slightly Off Center Books
Slightly Off Center Books rated it 12 years ago
I feel like I should have, in theory, really liked this book. It had elements that I usually love -absurdness, and hint of surreal, playfulness with language, and zombies. Somehow though these elements didn't really come together very well. I enjoyed the second half more than the first, but it wa...
sj
sj rated it 12 years ago
4.5? Maybe? I'd have rounded up, but how can you give a book five stars that its author admits to having wished he'd never written?Whathefuckever, it was brilliant.It was beautiful and gory and disturbing and violent and put this song in my head in places. It was definitely the best new-to-me thi...
Bloody Shambles
Bloody Shambles rated it 13 years ago
I love that Burgess can show you the inside of a broken brain in a believable, instinctively understandable way. Of course this meant I spent half the book wondering if the act of understanding the book equated with being a sociopath myself. So that was.... creepy.But while Cashtown has the intellig...
katarinaliest
katarinaliest rated it 13 years ago
I am lost for words in the face of such an extreme piece of literature. Burgess novel retells the story of massmurderer Bob Clark, the only inhabitant of Cashtown Corners, from the killers perspective. It's what makes this novel so compelling, aside from its true background, the reader can dive into...
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