The Flood: David Maine
I bought this book for 99p in Waterstones. There is a reason it was 99p. As a piece of writing it is awful.
Conceptually its great. Its kind of in the genre of Anita wasserface and "The Red Tent", taking a Biblical story (which at least gives it a decent plot), and fleshing it out with lots of details.. or in this case lots of sex!
It does the fleshing out reasonably well, conjecturing about how they gathered the myriad animals and sparing no details about mucking out and the like.
What makes it a bad book is that there doesn't seem to be a consistent style. One chapter a character sounds like a Jewish grandmother from New Yoik (sic) the next like a semi Arabic character. There are details and turns of expression that don't fit (crowbar??).. just doesn't feel pre apocalyptic flood.. (because obviously we knwo how that feels!!)
Conceptually its great. Its kind of in the genre of Anita wasserface and "The Red Tent", taking a Biblical story (which at least gives it a decent plot), and fleshing it out with lots of details.. or in this case lots of sex!
It does the fleshing out reasonably well, conjecturing about how they gathered the myriad animals and sparing no details about mucking out and the like.
What makes it a bad book is that there doesn't seem to be a consistent style. One chapter a character sounds like a Jewish grandmother from New Yoik (sic) the next like a semi Arabic character. There are details and turns of expression that don't fit (crowbar??).. just doesn't feel pre apocalyptic flood.. (because obviously we knwo how that feels!!)
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