A review by gohawks
Zapuščanje morja by Ben Marcus
2.0
Dear Ben Marcus,
You did it to me again. I can't believe I let you. Fool me twice... I can just imagine your agent on this book. " Ya know, how about a couple of good New Yorker lite stories to starrt the book. Reel 'em in." You: "Yeah and then I can get to the real heart of my stuff - those Beckett-like dystopian tone poems!" Blech. I should have known after reading part of the Flame Alphabet. In love with your ideas, but your characters are made out of dust and pencil shavings. No fire, just alphabetical acrobatics. A five page story of two sentences? Congrats, you did it! Gimme back my ten minutes. You seem to want to write Kafka's stories with Joyce's pen. I have a hard enough time reading those two sometimes. And you are neither. I give you one more star than you deserve for fooling me. Again. Damn you and the punctuation you rode in on and on and on.
You did it to me again. I can't believe I let you. Fool me twice... I can just imagine your agent on this book. " Ya know, how about a couple of good New Yorker lite stories to starrt the book. Reel 'em in." You: "Yeah and then I can get to the real heart of my stuff - those Beckett-like dystopian tone poems!" Blech. I should have known after reading part of the Flame Alphabet. In love with your ideas, but your characters are made out of dust and pencil shavings. No fire, just alphabetical acrobatics. A five page story of two sentences? Congrats, you did it! Gimme back my ten minutes. You seem to want to write Kafka's stories with Joyce's pen. I have a hard enough time reading those two sometimes. And you are neither. I give you one more star than you deserve for fooling me. Again. Damn you and the punctuation you rode in on and on and on.