Saturday, March 14, 2009
Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town
Rating: B
(writing this long after reading, hence it will be kinda brief)
Very weird and intense. I enjoyed this much more than EST and is more like what I hoped for from Cory's writing.
Guy moves to town... slightly eccentric, but nothing too weird. Then he starts talking about how his dad is a mountain and his mom is washing machine. Just a weird metaphor, right? Then, he meets a girl who, oh yeah, just happens to have a pair of angel wings. From this point, everything turns in to a kind of acid trip.
It turns out his dad actually *is* a mountain and his mom actually *is* a washing machine. Additionally, of his 4(or 6?) brothers, one is an island, another can see the future, the third is a psychotic beast (who I imagine as something like Gollum), and the fourth... well, he's the weirdest of them all.
He is actually triplets... triplets who swallow each other like a bunch of matryoshka dolls. Oh, and only the inner-most one can eat. And what he eats nourishes the all three triplets. So bizarre.
Anyway, the major plot revolves around the psychotic brother trying to kill the protagonist over many years. Honestly, the details of the plot weren't really all that important... I just loved all the descriptions.
On top of the main plot, there's also a love story between the protagonist and the wing-girl. Of course her ex (who is also a psychotic and has the ability to 'sense' the freaks of the world) teams up with psycho brother. This makes sense and it all ties together nicely. Which is more than I can say for the third plot.
Sadly, Cory has to add his politics and love of technology here as well. There is a completely useless (albeit interesting) side plot of protagonist teaming up with a dumpster-diving computer expert. Together they build and give away a bunch of meshing routers to everyone in the area. That way everyone has free network access... yay! Whatever. I really wish he had left this part out.
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