A review by pinkalpaca
List of the Lost by Morrissey

3.0

Wow, this book has a lot of hate. Which is what happens I guess when Morrissey writes something or says something or eats something or...anyway I digress. So at first I was a bit put off; it's verbose, it's dense, it's...a bit boring. We'd already learned before that Mr. Moz doesn't particularly care for indentation. I stuck with with it, 'cause hello, Morrissey wrote it! And it's like barely over 100 pages long.

Every time I picked the book up, I found myself really getting into it after a page or two. Morrissey definitely has his own style (which is to be expected), but it reminded me of Beat fiction. It's just a different rhythm than everything else. There's lots of alliteration and snappy little lyrical (!) phrases. As for the story, it's a moment in time, turning this way and that way and this way and that way, rather unexpectedly.

So it's not the greatest work of literature ever, so what? I didn't expect it to be. I think it's clear Moz enjoyed writing it and it's rather refreshing to read a piece of writing that's so unusual from everything else. It's also great that people feel so free to completely tear down an artist's work. Ah, people's opinions, where would we be without them?