Certainly has echoes of Riddley Walker: premature (by our standards) adulthood, dialect, post-catastrophe world. Of course RW is a tour-de-force and much more opaque than Knife: I wasn't entirely sure what was happening / had happened much of the time, and needed the Coles' Notes to help me out. Knife lays things out for you, as you would expect, even if it takes forever to do so. Among the irritations was the 'every time someone's about to tell Todd the truth, they're interrupted by some new threat.' The other irritation (aside form what one reviewer called 'Aaron the Energizer Bunny' and I mean *really*. Is the man a cyborg? a zombie? a character in Angel Sanctuary?) is if the women are immune to this germ, why does it make them passively psychic? They can hear but not be heard. That's not immunity; it's a selective infection.
A Downer is an Upper?
Certainly has echoes of Riddley Walker: premature (by our standards) adulthood, dialect, post-catastrophe world. Of course RW is a tour-de-force and much more opaque than Knife: I wasn't entirely sure what was happening / had happened much of the time, and needed the Coles' Notes to help me out. Knife lays things out for you, as you would expect, even if it takes forever to do so. Among the irritations was the 'every time someone's about to tell Todd the truth, they're interrupted by some new threat.' The other irritation (aside form what one reviewer called 'Aaron the Energizer Bunny' and I mean *really*. Is the man a cyborg? a zombie? a character in Angel Sanctuary?) is if the women are immune to this germ, why does it make them passively psychic? They can hear but not be heard. That's not immunity; it's a selective infection.
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Would like to emulate my grandmother...
...and take to my bed for the rest of my life. Only she had servants and I do not. Eh well, got to the drugstore for Benadryl and Gravol so I'm…
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Managed to lose an expensive only available online leg brace sometime yesterday, possibly at the laundromat. It was only occasionally useful, is why…
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Woke up this morning and the sun was gone
Woke up today in early 1996, with Jean and Mary and the cats and ComicBox, which I suppose is down to today being the 25th anniversary of returning…
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