Tag Archives: Experimental Reviews

Really Quick Thoughts About What I’ve Been Reading Lately, So Ya Know, Ya Know? (Part I)

Posted on May 20, 2013 by Andrew

Life Begins at Incorporation by Matt Bors I got this book through a Kickstarter, which is where I’ve been finding a lot of my entertainment ephemera lately.  I was taken by the first comic you see in the sales-spiel, regarding … Continue reading →

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More Three Sentence Reviews! (For Your Edumification!)

Posted on February 1, 2012 by Andrew

I’ve had this stack of books here on my desk for days.  Weeks.  Months.  Years, even. Okay, not these books exactly.  Even less so, since I cut some off of the list last week.  But the premise remains the same: … Continue reading →

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Three Sentence Reviews for Your Edification

Posted on January 25, 2012 by Andrew

I’ve had this stack of books here on my desk for days.  Weeks.  Months.  Years, even. Okay, maybe not these books, exactly, but books nonetheless.  See, it’s hard for me to read books purely for pleasure.  I mean, I read … Continue reading →

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Shortcut #58: Dhalgren

Posted on August 7, 2011 by Andrew

I really like Samuel R. Delany.  I first read his The Einstein Intersection, then found out that he wrote criticism and so enveloped myself in his exquisite book The Jewel-Hinged Jaw.  After that, I read Babel-17 and Empire Star.  I … Continue reading →

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On Powering Through

Posted on June 26, 2011 by Andrew

I have decided that I’m going to power through finishing THE UNDERGROUND EMPIRE OF JOSEPH WUNDERKIND.  It means that the final manuscript (not that a first draft is in any way final, though I often feel like it is) will … Continue reading →

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Shortcut #57: Abarat

Posted on June 16, 2011 by Andrew

Although Clive Barker has been in my consciousness for a long while – through movies, video games, graphic novels – before this I’d only read one other of his books.  That book was Weaveworld and, though I liked it well … Continue reading →

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Shortcut #56: The Angel’s Game

Posted on June 9, 2011 by Andrew

If you read my shortcut on The Prince of Mist, you’ll remember that one of the things I accused Zafón of being in that novel was too simplistic, both in terms of prose and plot.  Not so here. Going from … Continue reading →

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