/lit/ - Literature

I thought Borne was great. It was a post-post apocalyptic surreal mad landscape of fantastical creatures/technology bordering on magic. Against this background there is a story: a character and their journey. Seeing that Dead Astronauts is a "Borne novel" I was so keen to jump back into this wonderful world again.

Except I can't do that. This is a "Borne" novel in the lightest of all possible senses. Yes it is kind of set in The City, but there is no real character here, nor really any discernable story. What we have here is a collection of sentences which have been written and punctuated to come across as clever, edgy, and "deep". Honestly, so many of the sentences made me cringe.

This is to a novel what the very worst of modern art is to painting. This is a series of splotches of colour on a canvas, rather than paint applied in a way that tries to emulate something existing (a story, a novel in the traditional sense)