PEACE, PIPE, is a bonus story that is 50% of this book.
In summary, The Beauty offered everything I expected and desired: a mysterious adventure, evocative prose, and unique storytelling. Imagine if you were encouraged to start a family with those! Incidentally, my son and I are playing Dark Souls 1 (remastered) and Dark Souls 3, and the vision of the Parent/Child Mushrooms from Darktoot Garden and Ash Lake were evoked. With the future of humanity on the line, and the desire to reproduce, there is much at stake. Each section ramps up the tension dramatically as Nate and the other men are confronted with fungal manifestations of women, and they struggle with repulsion and attraction. No worries, I left out any mushroom/human romance.ĭon't let the intellectual narrative fool you, there is plenty of action. The best way to communicate the style is with Excerpts (see below). This style is not suited for mega-tome page epic-fiction! Instead, it begs to be read aloud, like a poem. Each sentence of "The Beauty" is packed with meaning. Some may think 100 pages is too short, but for a weird fiction shorter is often better. This edition has two parts, the first half is the titular story, and the other half is a bonus shorty story called "Peace, Pipe."
The Beauty is saturated with philosophy on "what is beautiful?" and "what is humanity?".īob Milne's Beauty in Ruins Book Reviews led me to this wonderful story. James' 1992 novel The Children of Men: a cluster of men survive in a dystopian future where all the women are dead (no hope for reproduction). Expect a mashup of William Golding 1954 Lord of the Flies and P. What is beautiful? Repulsive? Are you attracted to it? Are you beautiful, or unloved? These question resonate as one reads "The Beauty."Īliya Whiteley's THE BEAUTY offers a compact dose of weird fiction, body horror specifically, in which humanity is evolving into mushrooms.
0 kommentar(er)
