Dead Stars

Read through this a third time! A read I can always zip through. It should be illegal to publish a book without demonstrating as much enjoyment for writing as Wagner does! Just read through my previous review below as well. Seems like I used to be smarter :P I can add this: Gene Wolfe said that the m......more

This book was like a tug of war inside my head as I grimaced, laughed, and read. There are touches of brilliance, patches of pedantic, and many moments of huh? It's like pop culture burp that is both amusing and offensive, daft and entertaining, all at once. It is so deep and so profoundly shal......more

Bruce Wagner has a deep, dark secret: he's just a marshmallow inside. No matter how depraved or disgusting his characters' behavior may be, we stay with the narrative because he has made us care about the characters and what happens to them. This is no mean feat. Fans of Wagner will place this novel......more

Reviewing this book is puzzling... I haven't read anything quite like it. After 600 pages or so, I am still not sure if I liked it or hated it. Felt like an american pop culture overdose. The storyline in itself is interesting but there is something in the treatment that didn't worked for me. There......more

I am not sure what this book is exactly, but I thoroughly enjoy it. I almost gave up during the first several chapters as it seemed needlessly pornographic. I felt like I was being dragged through an ugly universe I didn’t want any part of. You are what you eat, and your brain is what you read, and......more