DeadWeight’s Reviews > Shadows & Tall Trees, Issue 6, Spring 2014 > Status Update
DeadWeight
is 24% done
"Hidden in the Alphabet" had some really wonderful prose, though the ending felt a little hammy and sudden. It's a shame this collection begins with "Onanon," which contains such hilariously shitty writing as "they steeped themselves in drink and weed." Jesus f*cking Christ, did Patrick Rothfuss ghostwrite this???
— Feb 15, 2018 12:54PM
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DeadWeight
is 63% done
Was pretty sure this anthology was international, but it seems to be overwhelmingly British.
— Sep 10, 2022 10:18AM
DeadWeight
is 63% done
Was pretty sure this anthology was international, but it seems to be overwhelmingly British.
— Feb 17, 2018 06:54AM
DeadWeight
is 38% done
this seems the opportune point to begin listing out this anthology's respective hits and misses.
HITS
"It Flows from the Mouth" (and WHAT a HIT this story is -- read it TODAY)
"Hidden in the Alphabet"
MIDS (these, I find, just have really lopsided structure issues)
"Death's Door Cafe"
"The Golem of Leopoldstadt"
"Road Dead"
MISSES
"Onanon" (and not because of the weird incest/body horror shit, that was fine)
— Feb 16, 2018 12:21PM
HITS
"It Flows from the Mouth" (and WHAT a HIT this story is -- read it TODAY)
"Hidden in the Alphabet"
MIDS (these, I find, just have really lopsided structure issues)
"Death's Door Cafe"
"The Golem of Leopoldstadt"
"Road Dead"
MISSES
"Onanon" (and not because of the weird incest/body horror shit, that was fine)
DeadWeight
is 19% done
*need to remind to return to intro after finishing
second story was f*cking incredible. funny, scary, weird, page-turner. like what if dave eggers wrote the shining
— Jan 05, 2018 06:20AM
second story was f*cking incredible. funny, scary, weird, page-turner. like what if dave eggers wrote the shining
DeadWeight
is 12% done
Finished the first story "Onanon" and felt a little underwhelmed at first. The story definitely gets "weird" in a really good way by the end, but the prose was just so... "her prose read like it burned in her blood and spattered out of her." Gratuitous, I think might be the word. It doesn't help that the protagonist is a *sigh* writer.
— Jan 04, 2018 04:33PM
DeadWeight
is reading
reading this after having read a super glowing review of the series in the LA Review of Books.
— Jan 04, 2018 04:19PM
