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Excellent short read

Revisado: 03-23-24

Fan of werewolf lore and 70s style fiction. This satisfies both. The author's prose is great and succint but effectively descriptive and not politically correct. I have to admit at several points the story sent a few chills down my spine, and I'm a 48 yr old male. Highly recommended.

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Great But Too Long

Revisado: 11-12-23

This book is very well written and the Auidible performance is perfect. However, by the last two hours, I was clock checking the remaining time left often. The author cramned in a bit too many sections demonstrating just what a miserably wretched life the main character is afflicted with and it felt repetitive.

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Better than the First!

Revisado: 09-18-23

I guess I'd consider myself a Colson fan by now as I've read four of his books. This one was great. It has an airy feel like Colson wasn't writing to the critics this time but rather just enjoying himself. The first in thelis series was decent, but I wasn't sure I was ready to continue through the planned trilogy. This one has a better pace and the 70s setting is perfectly depicted in Harlem. I took a star from the story because I wasn't a huge fan of the three stories within a story narrative. The narrator for the Audible version deserves an award. Excellent dramatization of the subject matter without being hokey.

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Not the Book Ellis Needed to Write

Revisado: 03-20-23

I am a big BEE fan. I loved American Psycho, Less than Zero, White, and others. He has taken a long time off from fiction writing. During that time, I was hoping he'd come back in a strong manner to reclaim his throne, but this is not the case. The Shards is an overly long, bloated, rehashed amalgamation of all his prior works. It was difficult to get through for me. The entire first 2/3 of this story can almost completely be excised, and the reader would still be left the main plot. Most of this story is as follows, a fictionalized BEE is back in early 1980s LA as a late teenager with his vapid, rich friends. He does drugs, has graphic sex, has awkward conversations with those in his circle when he's not having graphic sex with them, drives around, does drugs. Repeat for 500 pages until a hasty ending that doesn't really resolve anything. Did I mention there is a serial killer mystery subplot that is completely implausible and unnecessary? From my understanding, BEE wrote this story during the pandemic in and delivered it over his podcast in sections. Perhaps that way was easier to digest but as a whole it definitely needed editing. I hope he continues to write fiction and gives the reader something new that hasn't already been the focus of his other works.

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Great Reporting but Obviously Biased

Revisado: 01-31-23

The two authors put together a page turner here that is an easy to understand read and flows well. However, they admit at the end of the book that they both believe Ford despite 0 evidence she was attacked by Brett. During their Audible narrartion, both their voice tones inflect more heroically when they quote supporters of Ford and then get drab like when recounting testimony that supports Brett.

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Bare Bones

Revisado: 05-10-22

Extremely short. Most was filler of others commentary. Wouldn't have been so bad if it wasn't the same two people talking for others.

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Just ok

Revisado: 01-02-22

Not sure how this is a classic. You already know the end, and that's the best part. Very tame story and a struggle to get through despite short length.

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OK for a supposed classic

Revisado: 12-05-21

I am a fan of this type of material. I love transgressive fiction and bios that relate to that kind of subject matter. I put this one off for years and finally got around to it. While the overall story is ok, it needed some heavy editing. It's easy to lose track of where you are in his life when when every few pages is a relapse, something disgusting happens, rehab repeat ad nauseum. My favorite part is where he still had things relatively together particularly his time with Hustler magazine. As for this Audible version...phew...not well produced at all. While I appreciate having an author do the narration, Jerry Stahl has a severe lisp and talks very fast which gets almost into mumble territory at times. To make matters worse, the music background is jarring and unnecessary, and way too loud. Glad I finally got through this one but it was a chore.

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Wordy and confusing

Revisado: 01-19-20

Not sure how this story won a pulitzer prize. Author crams a ton of words into each sentence and has made me appreciate The Road by Cormac Mcarthy that much more. Plot is confusing and the chacters are unbelievable with two twists that do nothing to propel the narrative. I finished it but wish I hadn't.

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not bad really

Revisado: 09-18-19

After experiencing The Underground Railroad, this one left me feeling at times uninterested. It's a topic that has been done before, like with the novel Sleepers, in terms of abuse at a school for boys. Possibly due to the lack of character exploration in this one, I did not sympathize for the boys as much as I felt that I should. I'm on the fence about the narration.

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