Icaruss

Dear Diary, Today I read a fairly interesting short story. It's title, "Eff", intrigued me. I assumed it stood for "f*ck" and anything involving that is interesting to me. You ...

From the movie I linked: "I hate the way you talk to me, and the way you cut your hair. I hate the way you drive my car. I hate ...

Oh, this made me sad. Not the story. Not the characters or the situation. It made me sad because it began with such promise. It drew you in instantly. The ...

Jesus in heaven. It's a flashback. What's the problem? It even says: A LIFETIME AGO. It's not complicated. It doesn't need to be put in italics. Other than that, it's ...

Man, I did not like this. I'm sorry, really, I am, but this is just info dumping. I always say that fantasy doesn't work when you're preoccupied with explaining the ...

I don't like fantasy. Actually, that's not true, I can enjoy any kind of story, it's just that fantasy and science fiction always tend to care more about the world ...

Reviewing stories is hard shit. I don't want to sound too harsh, but it seems useless to just give praise to a story like it's been written by our generation's ...

Comicbook. Comicbook. It's called a comicbook. And yeah, it's fantastic. The first volume was mindblowing, though I thought the second one, Doll's House, had some pacing issues. Haven't read the ...

I'm tempted to say Lord of the Rings. I mean, the narrative is so boring that I just don't know how anyone can actually like those books. Then again, the ...

Irvine Welsh always gets a little bit crazy with formatting. In Acid House he has pages filled with the word "LIGHT" and rectangles of meaningless narration scattered around. The plot ...

That was creepy. I can't even begin to imagine why people are calling the story cute. All I could picture is Mudface from Batman stuck on the ground, whispering things ...

This is a nice little piece of writing. I always find poems about specific things a bit silly-- they always remind me about this poem I wrote about my pencilcase ...

Random Though #569: First review in ages. Bear with me. I may get sentimental. I've been reading a lot of books lately, two by Cormac McCarthy and Irvine Welsh's latest. ...

You have a really cynical view of the world, but you have no reason to feel that way. I'll give you the more formal critique of the piece in a ...

Piece of Advice: don't try to justify an explain your work, or apologize when someone doesn't like it. There will always be people who like it and people who don't. ...