Love and the Fear of Love

by Norman Douglas

Love and the Fear of Love (which is also love) is the debut literary collection by noted artist and author, Norman Douglas.
Fables, stories, and tales based on specific words and phrases. Dig in to court procedurals on the meaning of love, the true meaning of trouserdom, and original fables such as The Man, the King, the Girl and the Spider.

118 pages, Paperback

Published April 25, 2023

About the author

George Norman Douglas was a British writer, now best known for his 1917 novel South Wind. His travel books, such as Old Calabria (1915), were also appreciated for the quality of their writing.

Reviews

[W · Rating 1 out of 5]

This book sucks. First, the absence of capitalization is annoying and banal; you're no e.e.cummings, stop with the nonsense. Second, there's no continuity or thread to hold anything together; this is ol' boys notebook or something else equally unedited and not worth publishing. The only two positives I can give are: 1. The size of the book is nice (which, when you think about it, is terrible because that has nothing to do with the content; like when a crappy house is for sale and one of the perks is it is "close to a good school." Yeah, that means your house sucks.) and 2. There are some good collage worthy drawings in the book (which is also not a comment about the content).
Maybe there's something of value past page 24; there is certainly nothing of value in pages 1 through 23.
Not a fan.