GrownUp
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It is a futuristic fantasy. Reminds me more of Stephen King in the Bachman books more than anyone else.
I was not prepared for what I'm finding in this book. I'd read some Artemis Fowl before, which is a brightly coloured kids adventure yarn, like a cartoon.
As I write this I'm only about forty pages in, but there is some bloody good story-telling going on here. One can hardly believe that this book is the work of the same author.
And it's a children's book? It makes Bladerunner seem like a pleasant tale about a family of bears.
I don't understand. I don't understand at all. Can the author have had some sort of violent spiritual event occur that transformed his writing into this? Or did he write this first, do you think, and not get it published until the cartoony stuff made him better known?
Anyway. This is a powerful piece of writing - so far as I've read it.
More to come...
I was not prepared for what I'm finding in this book. I'd read some Artemis Fowl before, which is a brightly coloured kids adventure yarn, like a cartoon.
As I write this I'm only about forty pages in, but there is some bloody good story-telling going on here. One can hardly believe that this book is the work of the same author.
And it's a children's book? It makes Bladerunner seem like a pleasant tale about a family of bears.
I don't understand. I don't understand at all. Can the author have had some sort of violent spiritual event occur that transformed his writing into this? Or did he write this first, do you think, and not get it published until the cartoony stuff made him better known?
Anyway. This is a powerful piece of writing - so far as I've read it.
More to come...
