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A review by audleigh
Time Pimp by Garrett Cook
3.0
Like reading the hastily scrawled visions of someone's fever dream after they've watched too many Blacksploitation and bad sci-fi movies.
Time Pimp is an incredibly difficult book to review. It wavered wildly from scenes so strange and self-consciously offensive as to be boring to moments of sound storytelling that softened my feelings toward the book. The message of the book is, overall, one of love and it does come across clearly despite the messed up scenery and perhaps there is some great beauty in that. Counter to that is the abysmal editing. Basic spelling errors, stray commas, and characters switching names because the author never made appropriate changes to the text put a significant strain on my enjoyment. Bizarro books often have minor editing errors but this book was filled with them to the point that it feels like a rough draft. However, I didn't deduct any points from this review for the editing.
Time Pimp is an incredibly difficult book to review. It wavered wildly from scenes so strange and self-consciously offensive as to be boring to moments of sound storytelling that softened my feelings toward the book. The message of the book is, overall, one of love and it does come across clearly despite the messed up scenery and perhaps there is some great beauty in that. Counter to that is the abysmal editing. Basic spelling errors, stray commas, and characters switching names because the author never made appropriate changes to the text put a significant strain on my enjoyment. Bizarro books often have minor editing errors but this book was filled with them to the point that it feels like a rough draft. However, I didn't deduct any points from this review for the editing.