Books by Jesse Bullington
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review 1: I was fairly happy reading the first half of this novel, particularly the brothers' trek through the mountains. I liked the fantastical monsters and evil doers undone by the evil brothers. However, the religious discussion and blaspheming in the book got tiring to read. Once I go...
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review 1: A very interesting horror novel with an unusual plot structure and a well-portrayed historical setting. Here we have a story whose main antagonist appears only sporadically, and mostly near the beginning of the narrative, but which manages to maintain dramatic tension throughout ...
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review 1: The Brothers Grossbart is a truly horrible book. Not because it's poorly written, but because the title characters are truly horrible, disgusting people. The narrator doesn't try to gloss over how terrible the Brothers Grossbart are; ugly, ignorant and evil through and through. T...
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review 1: Read, but didn't finish. I wanted to like this book. I picked it up because the paper has a wonderful feel to it, and the woodcut illustration on the cover is intriguing. There are parts of it that I enjoyed. At its best, the book reads like sections of Italio Calvino's Italian F...
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review 1: Frankly, this story was a grotesque picaresque - in that it seemed that nothing but disgusting horrible things happened to everyone and there was no purpose to it. Granted, said brothers are horrible excuses for human beings. But even my distaste for them didn't make their enc...
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review 1: This book was certainly well written, and if the graphic violence and sex doesn't bother you then I do reccomend it. However personally it felt like it didn't need the near 500 pages it has. Simply my opinion, but the story didn't follow the basic plot most stories do, this may b...