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Book/Magazine Review: Shriek: An Afterword by Jeff VanderMeer
charles-tan.blogspot.com - 5/19/2009
Book/Magazine Review: Shriek: An Afterword by Jeff VanderMeer
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Every Monday, I'll be doing spoiler-free, bite-sized book/magazine reviews. Shriek: An Afterword is Jeff VanderMeer's second novel set in his Ambergris cosmology. There's a lot of elements with regards to the book that I want to talk about so please bear with me. The first is that this is a ...
Feature: "Who Is Jeff VanderMeer?"
charles-tan.blogspot.com - 5/20/2009
Feature: "Who Is Jeff VanderMeer?"
— charles-tan.blogspot.com — Every Wednesday, I have an essay or feature article on any topic that catches my fancy! Roughly... three ago, I didn't know who Jeff VanderMeer was (and for that matter, I didn't know who Jeffrey Ford was a few years back--what is it with the J's?). ... (more) Feature: "Who Is Jeff VanderMeer?"

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Ecstatic Days — ... Also, Charles Tan at Bibliophile Stalker wrote a review of Shriek: An Afterword the other day that I really appreciated. Did I appreciate it because he liked the novel? Nope. I liked it because he understood the book. Specifically, he totally got the layering effects and the purpose of those effects. He also got that you can have characters who aren’t always particularly likeable…and like them. I’m not sure if it’s usually reflected in fantasy fiction that the people we like in our real lives–our friends and ...

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