sam yocom’s Reviews > V. > Status Update

Absolutely filtered for the past two weeks by the Stencil chapters. I get the point of their existence as the appearances of the V. and a narrative connector to past and current versions like the V mirror structure but also they’re oh so long. Where is Pig Bodine I say. I miss Pig Bodine.

“He got that feeling now. Here in this room an old man had killed and boiled a catechumen, had committed sodomy with a rat, had discussed a rodent nunhood with V., a future saint — depending which story you listened to.”

Three chapters of a debut novel have more substance than some authors entire careers.

Always a different concept. Rockets and Physics, Maxwell’s Demon and Thermodynamics, Computer Science and Television, and the Daisy Chain and Electrical Engineering.

Some reheated Nabokov nachos. Khia author Thomas Pynchon.

Love the focus on V. as a concept, of similar and different. Receiving and Transmitting. Electricity.