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Nothing explicit in this first review, but cutting just in case!
( Domination & Submission: The BDSM Relationship Handbook, Michael Makai )
Title: The Man-Wolf
Author: Erckmann-Chatrian
Published: 1876
Rating: 2 of 5
Page Count: 90
Total Page Count: 324,130
Text Number: 1141
Read Because: fan of the trope, ebook free from Gutenberg
Review: I was slow to invest in this, despite the excessively evocative descriptions of the barren German forest, because it's so external: an observation of the werewolf as a dreamlike illness; distant, impersonal. But the outside view allows for the werewolf to be Othered, something less than human but more than animal, interacting with humans in a unique way:
( Spoilery quote. )
This is an early werewolf story, and I love that these early examples can feel fresh, exploring aspects that haven't become central to a trope with defined, repetitious elements. But however interesting, I still didn't enjoy this, and it holds no candle to Clemence Housman's The Were-Wolf, also early werewolf fiction, also engaging a relatively unexplored element of the trope, but distinctly more captivating.
Title: Crota
Author: Owl Goingback
Narrator: Heath Kizzier
Published: Books in Motion, 2004 (1996)
Rating: 2 of 5
Page Count: 95 of 320
Total Page Count: 324,225
Text Number: 1142
Read Because: reading Native authors, audiobook borrowed from the Multnomah County Library
Review: DNF at 30%—moreso because it's not for me than because it's outright bad: procedural supernatural horror isn't my vibe, even when distinctly removed from modern urban fantasy, and the writing is workmanlike (probably exacerbated by audio), burdened with headhopping and infodumps, not especially evocative despite the gore. Under that, it's probably fine as a horror pulp, but I'm the wrong reader.
( Domination & Submission: The BDSM Relationship Handbook, Michael Makai )
Title: The Man-Wolf
Author: Erckmann-Chatrian
Published: 1876
Rating: 2 of 5
Page Count: 90
Total Page Count: 324,130
Text Number: 1141
Read Because: fan of the trope, ebook free from Gutenberg
Review: I was slow to invest in this, despite the excessively evocative descriptions of the barren German forest, because it's so external: an observation of the werewolf as a dreamlike illness; distant, impersonal. But the outside view allows for the werewolf to be Othered, something less than human but more than animal, interacting with humans in a unique way:
( Spoilery quote. )
This is an early werewolf story, and I love that these early examples can feel fresh, exploring aspects that haven't become central to a trope with defined, repetitious elements. But however interesting, I still didn't enjoy this, and it holds no candle to Clemence Housman's The Were-Wolf, also early werewolf fiction, also engaging a relatively unexplored element of the trope, but distinctly more captivating.
Title: Crota
Author: Owl Goingback
Narrator: Heath Kizzier
Published: Books in Motion, 2004 (1996)
Rating: 2 of 5
Page Count: 95 of 320
Total Page Count: 324,225
Text Number: 1142
Read Because: reading Native authors, audiobook borrowed from the Multnomah County Library
Review: DNF at 30%—moreso because it's not for me than because it's outright bad: procedural supernatural horror isn't my vibe, even when distinctly removed from modern urban fantasy, and the writing is workmanlike (probably exacerbated by audio), burdened with headhopping and infodumps, not especially evocative despite the gore. Under that, it's probably fine as a horror pulp, but I'm the wrong reader.
