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A review by aleffert
Blueprints of the Afterlife by Ryan Boudinot
4.0
Picked this up entirely from the cover, then discovered it was exactly my sort of thing. Weird, non-linear, occasionally meta, full of ideas, and the strange strange image of a destroyed New York rebuilt on an island off the coast of Seattle.
Anyway, it was pretty good, but it didn't quite come together. There were a few too many subplots and the whole thing felt a little too much stuff the author thought was cool that didn't fit together. And maybe it was just the phrase "Age of Fucked Up Shit," and some general vibes that reminded me of The Broom of The System, but I felt sometimes like he was trying to be David Foster Wallace and not succeeding.
Still, there was a bunch of good stuff in here and I plowed through it.
Anyway, it was pretty good, but it didn't quite come together. There were a few too many subplots and the whole thing felt a little too much stuff the author thought was cool that didn't fit together. And maybe it was just the phrase "Age of Fucked Up Shit," and some general vibes that reminded me of The Broom of The System, but I felt sometimes like he was trying to be David Foster Wallace and not succeeding.
Still, there was a bunch of good stuff in here and I plowed through it.