Book review

[mirrorshard]

At Eastercon, we were given free books; I have reviewed one of them here.

It's Unnatural History by Jonathan Green, the first book under the Pax Britannica label from Abaddon Press, and it's uproariously, hilariously, risibly bad. It's like the hastily aborted bastard child of Bulldog Drummond and Sebastian Tombs, exhumed from a shallow grave and encased in a steam-powered armature of shiny brass.

(Elly made me post this link. In retaliation, I'm going to make her post about handling elephant poo.)

Comments

[friend-of-tofu.livejournal.com]

Good lord.

When you write;

To add to this weight of unnecessary verbiage, there’s also rather a lot of infodump exposition; it appears that Green had simultaneously been writing the roleplaying game sourcebook of the world, and by some budgetary exigence had been forced to combine the two projects into one.

is your remark that "it appears" meant to indicate that this horrible event had in fact taken place, pr merely that the novel read as if it had done?

Well done sir, you read these things so we won't have to.

[mirrorshard.livejournal.com]

That's extrapolation on my part, but it's the only thing I can think of that would explain the huge indigestible guide-book and history primer chunks scattered throughout the text.

[friend-of-tofu.livejournal.com]

Your interpretations sounds...kind, to say the least.

[mirabehn.livejournal.com]

Yay!

(Elly made me post this link. In retaliation, I'm going to make her post about handling elephant poo.)

Oh, alright. Tomorrow. *grins*