By Ian McdonaldThis novel is such an 'epic fail' that I stopped reading it at page 204 in disgust. I simply couldn't carry on. My enthusiasm waned from the beginning as a consequence of the prose but the final straw was when Mcdonald stole an entire scene from the Terry Gilliam film 'Brazil' (When Tuttle fills the plumbers suits with sewerage).
I can't be bothered reading novels which steal other artists idea's so blatently as this one does. Life's too short to accomidate intellectual theft without a certain degree of charm. Mcdonald tries for charm, but comes across as a childish hack.
3 comments:
look at the dates of the first publication of the book.
1988. What of it?
Brazil came out in 1985.
I love it when time's linear.
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