Reviews and Comments

I found it very slow going. The characters weren’t interesting for a long time, though the author worked very hard for them to become fully formed and compelling. The ending made up for it, it is clever, but too clever.

Wanted something different. I’ve read two of his other books and enjoyed them: Slow Horses and Dead Lions.

Second book. I’m curious what’s next.

It is a book about monsters. We are all monsters the book repeats several times. For a book that wades into HP Lovecraft’s nightmares it does a good job of rewriting and reworking the mythos in interesting and entertaining ways. I’m going to read the sequel because I really enjoyed it.

First book in the series.

In some sense it is about being a stranger, a foreigner.

The short story is set after WWII and is about the camps.

I found it very delicate and careful and well-written. I’ll start the first book in the series.

First short story of a series based on the Lovecraft mythos.

The stories are very short and well-written. The metaphors are beautiful. The stories themselves are cruel, but I’m not sure why. Is it a reaction to a conservative Argentina in the late 30s?

These are the earliest of her stories. She has style and they read well, but they also feel jarring and a bit gimmicky.

I’m curious to know how she develops as a writer.

Reread. I liked it a lot more this time. I got what it was doing this time — how hard it is to understand things: language only partially works. Very much a catalogue of a time and place, yet speaks to this moment: the noise.

Lots of dialogue. Elliptic. Episodic. Dark.

Reread

Philosophy, mathematics, “the modern.”