Monday, June 16, 2008

“…startlingly…” - early review of, well, two novellas for a novel

Over at CCLAP, the Chicago Center for Literature and Photography, there’s a new review of three novellas for a novel, two thirds of it at least.


Sample text includes:

“...these shared-theme novellas, adding up to a mid-sized unified novel by the end (hence its title), are in fact designed for the top one-percent of most intelligent, most educated, most erudite readers out there, those who are fatally bored with almost every single other book on the market.... If you’re one of these people, you’re going to freaking love Three Novellas for a Novel; if you’re not, you’re going to likely wonder who this Shuker fellow thinks he is, calling this readable literature in the first place.”

“...a dense and trippy and highly atmospheric fever-dream of a tale...”

“...jarringly original ...”

“...unreadable...”

“...mental...”

“...startlingly...”

“...the...”

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