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John The Revelator (2009)

by Peter Murphy(Favorite Author)

3.25 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

0571240208 (ISBN13: 9780571240203)

languge

English

genre

Young Adult Fantasy & Science Fiction

publisher

Faber & Faber

review 1: A little more than 24 hours has gone by since I finished this book, and it's still with me. Beautiful, raw, and poignant. I loved its language and atmosphere more than the actual story I think, but I felt so sucked into it that I didn't lay it down once, I read it from cover to cover (and missed out on a good night's sleep but no matter). Recommended to anyone who is a sucker for nice descriptive novels and who also think that the raw, rugged and merciless parts of life can just be so romantic sometimes.
review 2: There were periods of good writing that shows promise, but the overall impression was of a creative writing class -- stuff being experimented with that didn't really hang together. Things didn't make sense -- the age of John's mother, who at first se... moreems a very young mother, run away from home to follow a band and have a baby, but by the time John is 16 is described as "not a young woman." Her illness -- mental? physical? - remains opaque. Perhaps the greatest offense to narrative logic is John's "hot for teacher" seduction which comes from nowhere and bears no indicia of real life (although a lot of teenage fantasy). The uneasy nightmare sequences and Jamie's "stories" seem like more writing class tricks -- playing with different voices rather than knowing how to use them. Maybe I just missed teh point. less

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