The Man of Legends by Kenneth Johnson
First, I hate Washington Irving. He said, show, not tell. A sound advice, but every idiot trying to be an author puts it to an extreme.
You will learn a lot of things, you never wanted to know in the first place. And not relevant to the story either. Secondary heroes are picked by a neoliberal Bible: a bag lady, an afro-american, a mixed race teen from a troubled family and a neighborhood, ... You will learn the color of their eyes, the intimate details of their dress, their family history,...
Did I mentioned the word neoliberal? The author will confess how bad person he (she) was and how he/she is sorry for that. Enjoy.
Of course, the main hero is a do-goody, helping all those underprivileged, and of course hunted by the World Evil... no, in this case not Russians, the second most hated - the Catholic Church. And, by the way, the devil speaks Aramaic, Italian, and... - surpise! - Russian. Hey, that's the devil, right?
If you are an aspiring author and think that replicating your heroes dialects is cool (sorry, it's not), then you'll enjoy it a lot. No, U'uz anjo at a latT! The book presents so many weird East Coast dialects (a bag lady, a Harlem kid,...) that you can become an expert on those.
If not, that's plain annoying. The heroes are flat, the plot is essentially linear, the actions are stupid.
That's it. I managed to read 28% of the book and I am giving up. Sorry. I'd expected Amazon to pick the recommendations better.
https://www.amazon.com/Man-Legends-Kenneth-Johnson-ebook/dp/B01M10EFKJ
Summary: skip it!
Politically correct, stupid, plain, puppet show, cartoon characters.
You will learn a lot of things, you never wanted to know in the first place. And not relevant to the story either. Secondary heroes are picked by a neoliberal Bible: a bag lady, an afro-american, a mixed race teen from a troubled family and a neighborhood, ... You will learn the color of their eyes, the intimate details of their dress, their family history,...
Did I mentioned the word neoliberal? The author will confess how bad person he (she) was and how he/she is sorry for that. Enjoy.
Of course, the main hero is a do-goody, helping all those underprivileged, and of course hunted by the World Evil... no, in this case not Russians, the second most hated - the Catholic Church. And, by the way, the devil speaks Aramaic, Italian, and... - surpise! - Russian. Hey, that's the devil, right?
If you are an aspiring author and think that replicating your heroes dialects is cool (sorry, it's not), then you'll enjoy it a lot. No, U'uz anjo at a latT! The book presents so many weird East Coast dialects (a bag lady, a Harlem kid,...) that you can become an expert on those.
If not, that's plain annoying. The heroes are flat, the plot is essentially linear, the actions are stupid.
That's it. I managed to read 28% of the book and I am giving up. Sorry. I'd expected Amazon to pick the recommendations better.
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