Original name:
Author: Zanzibar 7. Schwarznegger
Translation:
Series: Figments, 1/?
Number of pages: 247
Published: 2015 by Chizzy Press (U.S.)
Type: Paperback
Genre: fantasy, romance, humour, parody
Christopher
Collum is writer or he want to be one because for now he is competing
in NaNoWriMo but it's essential to say that he really doesn't do good.
He just made his main character and what is even worse fell in love with
her. And on top of that got in crazy world of made up character's and
other writer's bookish things. Like plot bunnies. Sounds crazy? It
totally is!!!
WOW! This book is hella crazy but in great way. I mean Alice in Wonderland crazy if you know what I mean. Full of absurd things, characters and situations, full of randomness, full of funny things.
I must say I love author's way of writing. That great playfulness, sense of humour, phantasmagoria, sense of details. Well English isn't my native language so I struggle a lot with so many references (I really didn't understand them all but still many of them were funny) and made-up words. I quite felt like an archaeologist but because of this I enjoy this book even more and I'm looking forward to a time when I would be able to understand every damn thing in it. And I love those phenomenal author's footnotes, they literally cracked me!!
Characters. They are original and clichéd at same time but well this is parody so it's pretty understandable. Christopher is typical I don't know where am I and what do to which leads to many funny situations. Elsa is a woman who don't hesitate to scold him sometimes but they made a really good dynamic couple. Next to them there is a lot of other characters. Eric, a guy who dies again and again because he is a prototype of dying characters in writer's minds. Shiv, a guy who reincarnate to very funny things like pregnant dragon or a book. Chris, not a well made and used character but she wants to be one for any reason. Oracle which gives you prophecy with her shopping list, Evil Queen, Tick, Tock and Tuck... well everyone here have theirs five seconds of fame and then go away but it's essential for a story and some of them are really awesome (Pizza Guy, I mean you!). Some of them stay for longer amount of time and I just loved the cooperation between Shiv and Eric in the end (I mean I would be very mad if they wouldn't be in the second book!).
The story *imminent burst of laughter* is nonexistent. Well yeah we have: Christopher fell in world of book characters and want to find a way to home. The End. Dot. His crazy adventures by the way home are the other thing. But Veneri isn't a book about a story it's a book about a lot of funny crazy stuffs which made you die of laughter. Mission accomplished.
Overall. It's insanely well made book and it's really sad I wasn't able to understand it in a way I wanted (but that's a problem of my English not a book itself).
I enjoy it to the core!
Note: I really think that this book was written more for a writers than for a readers. I mean only writers can feel a uneasiness of characters which aren't cared with love but only used for writers experiments. As a writer I do really thought about what would my characters thinks about a way I care about them.
WOW! This book is hella crazy but in great way. I mean Alice in Wonderland crazy if you know what I mean. Full of absurd things, characters and situations, full of randomness, full of funny things.
I must say I love author's way of writing. That great playfulness, sense of humour, phantasmagoria, sense of details. Well English isn't my native language so I struggle a lot with so many references (I really didn't understand them all but still many of them were funny) and made-up words. I quite felt like an archaeologist but because of this I enjoy this book even more and I'm looking forward to a time when I would be able to understand every damn thing in it. And I love those phenomenal author's footnotes, they literally cracked me!!
Characters. They are original and clichéd at same time but well this is parody so it's pretty understandable. Christopher is typical I don't know where am I and what do to which leads to many funny situations. Elsa is a woman who don't hesitate to scold him sometimes but they made a really good dynamic couple. Next to them there is a lot of other characters. Eric, a guy who dies again and again because he is a prototype of dying characters in writer's minds. Shiv, a guy who reincarnate to very funny things like pregnant dragon or a book. Chris, not a well made and used character but she wants to be one for any reason. Oracle which gives you prophecy with her shopping list, Evil Queen, Tick, Tock and Tuck... well everyone here have theirs five seconds of fame and then go away but it's essential for a story and some of them are really awesome (Pizza Guy, I mean you!). Some of them stay for longer amount of time and I just loved the cooperation between Shiv and Eric in the end (I mean I would be very mad if they wouldn't be in the second book!).
The story *imminent burst of laughter* is nonexistent. Well yeah we have: Christopher fell in world of book characters and want to find a way to home. The End. Dot. His crazy adventures by the way home are the other thing. But Veneri isn't a book about a story it's a book about a lot of funny crazy stuffs which made you die of laughter. Mission accomplished.
Overall. It's insanely well made book and it's really sad I wasn't able to understand it in a way I wanted (but that's a problem of my English not a book itself).
I enjoy it to the core!
Rating: 8/10
Note: I really think that this book was written more for a writers than for a readers. I mean only writers can feel a uneasiness of characters which aren't cared with love but only used for writers experiments. As a writer I do really thought about what would my characters thinks about a way I care about them.
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