george_salis's review against another edition
5.0
"There is an etymological ancestry between ‘sentence’ and ‘sentience,’ and not to sound too sententious but the sustained tension of certain sentences can be nearly transcendent, and Dies: A Sentence is a 50,000-word death sentence, a sentence of death, perhaps not mine, perhaps not yours, technically Place’s but only in terms of authorship, definitely the protagonist’s whose thought-thread we follow up and down in its fluctuations of Time and telling and the physical rectangular coffin/trench-shape of the book from page to page, 4.25 inches of width to its 9.25 inches of height, and this shape is manifest in the text itself, for the protagonist is a WW1 soldier dying in a trench as he tells his literally tall tale,"
Read the full, one-sentence review here: https://thecollidescope.com/2021/01/17/dies-a-sentence-by-vanessa-place/
I also interviewed the author here: https://thecollidescope.com/2021/01/17/skull-bottled-an-interview-with-vanessa-place/
Read the full, one-sentence review here: https://thecollidescope.com/2021/01/17/dies-a-sentence-by-vanessa-place/
I also interviewed the author here: https://thecollidescope.com/2021/01/17/skull-bottled-an-interview-with-vanessa-place/
stephersroo's review against another edition
5.0
If the Museum of Jurassic Technology, with an opulent, psychedelic feast,
regaled a soldier dying in a trench, and if that experience were a (book) with one period inside a cosmic kaleidoscope, would that be something you could wrap your head around, like a soft, frayed ribbon around a translucent brain-pudding with curios floating inside it? Ambrosia.
regaled a soldier dying in a trench, and if that experience were a (book) with one period inside a cosmic kaleidoscope, would that be something you could wrap your head around, like a soft, frayed ribbon around a translucent brain-pudding with curios floating inside it? Ambrosia.
lnprad's review
4.0
Move past the gimmick (1 ultra-long ungrammatical sentence) into the unwind. A little like quick-sand. A little like being burrito'd by a carpet. Neither an optimal way to die.
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