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SWELL (2011)

by Corwin Ericson(Favorite Author)

3.39 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

0984428844 (ISBN13: 9780984428847)

languge

English

genre

Fantasy

publisher

Dark Coast Press

review 1: This frequently-hilarious novel (set on a fictitious island off the coast of Maine) reminded me a pit of Thomas Pynchon, with a higher degree of snark. The final act meanders a bit too much, but if you like the postmodern-satirical-prose (Pynchon, Walker Percy, Vonnegut and others) you will probably enjoy this book. If you like that style AND live (or have ever lived) in coastal New England, you will probably LOVE this book.
review 2: I started out not knowing how to feel about this novel. I wanted to give it a good review, but I just can't. Part Melville, part Christopher Moore, and part Douglas Adams, it starts out funny and quirky but lacks the follow through to make it a fully developed novel. It is as if the author picked up a portion of a story and dumped... more in on the page without giving it a coherent beginning and ending. The vocabulary makes it even more disconcerting because the main character, a preeminent slacker, has a better vocabulary than my Kindle dictionary. The cultural and metaphysical issues raised in the book are impossible to follow and ultimately make no sense. I feel like this novel is some kind of joke, and I just don't get the punchline. Consequently, I am left wondering if I am lacking in the capacity to understand the novel or if it is completely obtuse. less

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