flexdza's review
dark
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
2.25
expendablemudge's review
5.0
New review! BROWN BOTTLE is up at my blog, Expendable Mudge Muses Aloud.
Sheldon Lee Compton writes with a scalpel, and then tells his stories of outsiders and misfits and rage-filled unnecessary people in their own arterial blood. You NEED to read it! Bottom Dog Press gets kudos for taste and fearlessness.
Seriously, y'all, how many writers do this:
...and don't sound like they're hifalutin' city shitheads gettin' a down on the poor kid? Compton is just describing someone he knows, has seen, talked to, maybe even spent a football game with. Yet he's got the clinical detachment and visual acuity to do that character right. Damn!
Sheldon Lee Compton writes with a scalpel, and then tells his stories of outsiders and misfits and rage-filled unnecessary people in their own arterial blood. You NEED to read it! Bottom Dog Press gets kudos for taste and fearlessness.
Seriously, y'all, how many writers do this:
Tuck had always been made smaller made than Stan. Narrow shoulders, tiny hands and short fingers. Even as a young man his brown eyes were always watering like he'd been crying and his face never took hair well. What he had instead were four or five patches of hair that looked like a cluster of bee stingers popping straight out from his cheeks.
...and don't sound like they're hifalutin' city shitheads gettin' a down on the poor kid? Compton is just describing someone he knows, has seen, talked to, maybe even spent a football game with. Yet he's got the clinical detachment and visual acuity to do that character right. Damn!
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