The Moments, the Agonizing Moments
My review of Bruce Olds’ new novel, The Moments Lost, is running at Pop Matters:
Historical revisionist Bruce Olds commits heinous acts against the English language in his sprawling, incoherent novel, The Moments Lost. At times impressive in scope and range, the narrative ultimately suffers and strangulates under the weight of the author’s use and abuse of alliterations and arcane verbs and nouns.
You can read the entire review here.
Previously: Musings For A Thursday
April 22, 2008 at 11:29 am
I love that first sentence. “heinous acts against the English language…” - Someone should make an Amazon list with that title. It could be like a reverse recommendation list.
April 22, 2008 at 11:45 am
Not a bad idea, Julie, given that the ascribed crime happens all too often.
April 22, 2008 at 6:34 pm
I got the picture
–like the review–good use of words!
April 22, 2008 at 6:59 pm
Thank you, Scot. Been a long awhile since I wrote book reviews professionally so I was a little nervous the first time out with Pop Matters, seeing that my first review was a scathing one. That’s why I tried to say at least something nice about the author.
April 22, 2008 at 7:19 pm
yeah, I noticed that too–nice touch
April 22, 2008 at 7:37 pm
I hope someday some critic somewhere gives me the same courtesy, though I highly doubt I’ll ever be able to get a jacket blurb from Bruce Olds now.
April 22, 2008 at 10:20 pm
I thought it was good stuff. Good feeling for the novel and lots of grounding in the background of what he’s written before and whatnot. Made it very informative.
April 23, 2008 at 1:03 am
Thank you, David.