Emi B. (wantonvolunteer) - , reviewed on 2/3/2012 + 84 more book reviews

While I love dark comedy and intrigue and horror and exotic locales, this was something Vaudevillian or Philip Marlowe about this style that just rubbed me the wrong way, something yukkety yuk yuk-ish. There are several story lines, and they're told by way of letters and cables and journals and manuscripts. I am glad I stuck with it because it grew on me as the story got more and more sick and twisted. Basically it's all about immortality, people wanting to live on in some way or another -- whether by publishing their life's work, ruling the world in the afterlife, or by sheer delusion.

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