exorcismofemilyreed's review
2.0
"For hundreds of miles in every direction, night ate day and was only getting started."
Dead is Dead, but Not Always is a collection of 7 novelettes from Eddie Generous. These are a little bit longer than the average short story, but not long enough to be individual books.
I struggled to connect with this collection. I liked the ideas for some of the stories, but I didn't love the execution. Many of them dragged and had a lot of mundane details. I got thrown off by a lot of the language choices - the sex scenes have odd phrases like "bulbous head" and "hot dog hard", which make them not very sexy at all. A character clenching to hold in the "sperm chowder" inside of her pretty much killed the book for me. Firing a rifle is described as ejaculation from a shotgun - it was hard to take it seriously. The silly phrasing would make much more sense in a horror comedy or bizarro story, but these stories don't fall into those subgenres.
Some of the stories have a lot of characters, and it was tough to keep track of who was who in stories that weren't very long. I think it could have been simplified a bit. The better stories in the collection were The Howl and The Weight of Solitude, The Pressure of Conscience. I had a difficult time with the rest of them.
Dead is Dead, but Not Always is a collection of 7 novelettes from Eddie Generous. These are a little bit longer than the average short story, but not long enough to be individual books.
I struggled to connect with this collection. I liked the ideas for some of the stories, but I didn't love the execution. Many of them dragged and had a lot of mundane details. I got thrown off by a lot of the language choices - the sex scenes have odd phrases like "bulbous head" and "hot dog hard", which make them not very sexy at all. A character clenching to hold in the "sperm chowder" inside of her pretty much killed the book for me. Firing a rifle is described as ejaculation from a shotgun - it was hard to take it seriously. The silly phrasing would make much more sense in a horror comedy or bizarro story, but these stories don't fall into those subgenres.
Some of the stories have a lot of characters, and it was tough to keep track of who was who in stories that weren't very long. I think it could have been simplified a bit. The better stories in the collection were The Howl and The Weight of Solitude, The Pressure of Conscience. I had a difficult time with the rest of them.
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