(A-) 81% | Very Good Notes: A zoo and pet morale reset (captivity v. ferity), on beating depression and human oppression, it's beasts in solidarity.
*Pr(A-) 81% | Very Good Notes: A zoo and pet morale reset (captivity v. ferity), on beating depression and human oppression, it's beasts in solidarity.
(A-) 82% | Very Good Notes: On types of pain, shock and strain, sharpened by emotion, pride's a sin and teamwork wins, a fight of pure devotion.
*Progre(A-) 82% | Very Good Notes: On types of pain, shock and strain, sharpened by emotion, pride's a sin and teamwork wins, a fight of pure devotion.
(C+) 66% | Almost Satisfactory Notes: A roadmap-rarity, clip-show clarity, storytelling flop, cool-looking scenes but what they mean is plain as bucket(C+) 66% | Almost Satisfactory Notes: A roadmap-rarity, clip-show clarity, storytelling flop, cool-looking scenes but what they mean is plain as bucket slop.
(A-) 83% | Very Good Notes: Pet-concerned, past lessons learned, serious, peril-swelling, hack-and-slash, a monster clash, great visual storytelling.
*P(A-) 83% | Very Good Notes: Pet-concerned, past lessons learned, serious, peril-swelling, hack-and-slash, a monster clash, great visual storytelling.
(A-) 82% | Very Good Notes: On library books (humanity hooks), how art supplies escape, once again dissimilar men butt heads and get reshaped.
*Progress(A-) 82% | Very Good Notes: On library books (humanity hooks), how art supplies escape, once again dissimilar men butt heads and get reshaped.
(A-) 81% | Very Good Notes: As likeness goes, too on-the-nose, the symbolism's clear, and humanity checks brutality when good influence is near.
*Progre(A-) 81% | Very Good Notes: As likeness goes, too on-the-nose, the symbolism's clear, and humanity checks brutality when good influence is near.
(A-) 83% | Very Good Notes: It's a sci-fi dingy, not lore stingy, lifelike lived-in setting, with a Castaway-like day-to-day and frequent fauna-frettin(A-) 83% | Very Good Notes: It's a sci-fi dingy, not lore stingy, lifelike lived-in setting, with a Castaway-like day-to-day and frequent fauna-fretting.
(C+) 66% | Almost Satisfactory Notes: Complete dead-end to comprehend, it's aimless gobbledygook, a scattershot of scenes for plot, at best a picture b(C+) 66% | Almost Satisfactory Notes: Complete dead-end to comprehend, it's aimless gobbledygook, a scattershot of scenes for plot, at best a picture book.
(C+) 66% | Almost Satisfactory Notes: Nothing good, not understood, not even awesome art, some filler fights (just loud and trite), annoying from the s(C+) 66% | Almost Satisfactory Notes: Nothing good, not understood, not even awesome art, some filler fights (just loud and trite), annoying from the start.
(C+) 66% | Almost Satisfactory Notes: Who's who and why are facts denied, its storytelling sucks, connects no dots, all scattershot, its scenes just ru(C+) 66% | Almost Satisfactory Notes: Who's who and why are facts denied, its storytelling sucks, connects no dots, all scattershot, its scenes just run amok.
(A-) 82% | Very Good Notes: Entertaining world-explaining (elucidative and compelling), both proficient and efficient, simply skillful storytelling.
*Pr(A-) 82% | Very Good Notes: Entertaining world-explaining (elucidative and compelling), both proficient and efficient, simply skillful storytelling.
(C+) 66% | Almost Satisfactory Notes: Improves a tad (still really bad), a plot that I can follow, still quite confusing, brain-abusing blatherskite, f(C+) 66% | Almost Satisfactory Notes: Improves a tad (still really bad), a plot that I can follow, still quite confusing, brain-abusing blatherskite, feels hollow.
(C+) 65% | Almost Satisfactory Notes: Good-looking trash, it's balderdash: just what is this about? It never tells, few clues as well, key information (C+) 65% | Almost Satisfactory Notes: Good-looking trash, it's balderdash: just what is this about? It never tells, few clues as well, key information drought.
(B+) 79% | Good Notes: On addiction as affliction, self-destructive lust for food, wherein secrets spill, a test of wills: bloody rabid family feud.
*Pr(B+) 79% | Good Notes: On addiction as affliction, self-destructive lust for food, wherein secrets spill, a test of wills: bloody rabid family feud.
(A-) 81% | Very Good Notes: A now-and-then what-happened-when, the story of a curse, it's dog-eat-dog by fallout fog, and foremost family-first.
*Progre(A-) 81% | Very Good Notes: A now-and-then what-happened-when, the story of a curse, it's dog-eat-dog by fallout fog, and foremost family-first.
(A-) 84% | Very Good Notes: Stark and pale, a father's tale, through bitter, bleak upheaval, retreat denied, it's move or die, in everything primeval.
*(A-) 84% | Very Good Notes: Stark and pale, a father's tale, through bitter, bleak upheaval, retreat denied, it's move or die, in everything primeval.
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11/06/2023 - Preamble [image] (1) No reason why I'm reading this now other than it's available at my library. - I've had it on hold forever. - As with all my audiobooks, this is a reread. (2) The thing I most remember about this is there's no chapter breaks. - Being fairly short, I know it's implied I should finish it in one sitting but that's not going to happen, especially as it's an audiobook.
11/07/2023 - 11% [image] (1) At least to me, this has somewhat Victorian sensibilities. - Being essentially a narrative poem, it's reminiscent of long-form poetry of that era, albeit free verse. (2) "He withdrew his hand slowly and sat looking at a Coca Cola." "What is it, Papa?" "It's a treat. For you." - It's interesting how, with all the stark prose, "Coca Cola" sounds foreign and exotic.
11/08/2023 - 20% [image] (1) To me, this book doesn't seem to have a plot. A father and son journey south, and things happen along the way. To go into more detail would mean recounting individual (unconnected) incidents. - Really, it's the prose describing these incidents that make the book. (2) The father and son have no names. - In essence, they're emblematic of every father and every son.
11/14/2023 - 34% [image] (1) I'm torn on Tom Stechschulte. I think he's a very good narrator, I just don't think he's a good fit here. - His little boy voice isn't great, and really takes me out of the story. - Plus he sounds too polished for this post-apocalypse. (2) "Query: How does the never to be differ from what never was?" - I suppose "never to be" has precedent as previously existing.
11/15/2023 - 48% [image] (1) There's a real timeless quality to this. If you took away all mentions of modern items and asked me to identify an era, I would classify this as distinctly medieval. - There's a very "Lone Wolf and Cub" or knight and squire feel to it. (2) All the cannibalism is, of course, rooted in reality but has a very zombie/vampire aura, so this feels like a horror fantasy.
11/17/2023 - 67% [image] (1) "When your dreams are of some world that never was or of some world that never will be and you are happy again then you will have given up." - Of all lines to get a callback, it's one I just mentioned! - I suppose memories and fantasies are like opium in this post-apocalypse. By implication, opening your eyes to cold, oppressive reality is living clean and sober.
11/18/2023 - 90% [image] (1) In very much the same way Shakespeare is better when performed/read aloud, this book's particular narrative poetry is better when read on the page. - Listening to the audiobook, it just doesn't have the same punch as my first time around when I read the physical book. - There's a lot of simple, stark and repetitive dialogue that, frankly, sounds dull read aloud.
11/19/2023 - 99% [image] (1) "It's okay, Papa. You don't have to talk. It's okay." - Probably the most repetitive piece of dialogue, in a book full of repetition, is the word "okay," back-and-forth between father and son. Searching the text, it comes up 195 times. - It all builds to this one line though, the book's climax, when roles reverse and the son becomes his father's protector. (hide spoiler)]...more
(B+) 78% | Good Notes: It wraps up fine, though doesn't shine, more clam than caviar, bit hit-and-run, too get-it-done and art's not up to par.
*Progres(B+) 78% | Good Notes: It wraps up fine, though doesn't shine, more clam than caviar, bit hit-and-run, too get-it-done and art's not up to par.
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