Reviews

First Blast of the Trumpet Against the Monsterous Regiment of Women by Eric McCormack

rubyrjm's review against another edition

3.0

This book was a good read, if only to find out what else could possibly go wrong in the character's incredibly bizarre life.

jordaline's review against another edition

5.0

Ive read this book many times, as a teenager it was my favorite. I still love it because everytime I read this book I read something different, i notice something i hadnt before, the characters seem new to me every time. If you like weird, graphic, (literally) crazy characters pick this up. Its riveting ane brilliant. And it teaches how nothing is quite as important as love and trust.

captainfez's review

5.0

Eric McCormack's work is often long on creepy description and short on considered structure. This work addresses the latter a little more than some of his other novels, but you'll still find his usual grab-bag of concerns here: mysterious locales, small villages, mining disasters, everyday hermeticism.

I don't want to give away much of the story, but suffice it to say this is probably as close as the guy will come to solid ending in his work. There's still stuff left undone, certainly, but there's much more of a feeling that the narrator has reached a goal. This is the high point of McCormack's work, and while it's not quite as eerie as some of his earlier work - weirdness that in some cases was diminished by repetition of particular elements - it's distinctly uncanny, and deeply satisfying.

Just watch out for the trip to the motel. That's some contortion.