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juushikaTitle: A Short Stay in Hell
Author: Steven L. Peck
Published: Strange Violin Editions, 2012 (2011)
Rating: 2.5 of 5
Page Count: 110
Total Page Count: 558,895
Text Number: 2104
Read Because: saw this requested in a fic exchange, ebook borrowed from the Multnomah County Library
Review: Not to be glib, but just read Borges. That said, this is short, and less campy than the opening lets on. What it does best is extrapolate scale—massive, horrifying, existential scale, banal yet cosmic. The social element feels written by a straight white man, gestures made at murder cults and the rise of ritual, at the transitory-or-not role of sexual relationships, pretty underwhelming takes, all less successful than the premise itself.
Author: Steven L. Peck
Published: Strange Violin Editions, 2012 (2011)
Rating: 2.5 of 5
Page Count: 110
Total Page Count: 558,895
Text Number: 2104
Read Because: saw this requested in a fic exchange, ebook borrowed from the Multnomah County Library
Review: Not to be glib, but just read Borges. That said, this is short, and less campy than the opening lets on. What it does best is extrapolate scale—massive, horrifying, existential scale, banal yet cosmic. The social element feels written by a straight white man, gestures made at murder cults and the rise of ritual, at the transitory-or-not role of sexual relationships, pretty underwhelming takes, all less successful than the premise itself.
