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mlindner's review
2.0
I wanted to like this a whole lot more. C'mon! Flood myths, which I know are extant in many, if not most, cultures but otherwise know little about.
Uses the ancient Sumerian king Ziusudra, adrift on his own boat in a world flood, and his hallucinations from lack of sleep to tell several other flood stories. We see the Nile Delta, the Da Yu tales from China, Native American and a woman facing the possible loss of her family in Hurricane Katrina.
While tales based on hallucinations can work, they are often disjointed and that may get in the way of the story. I fear that here it does. The story also jumps back and forth between the tales which, for me anyway, leaves them more disjointed than connected as the authors are trying to do.
All in all, I felt this needs to be restructured and then have the tales connected more clearly to be effective as a story. Which is sad, because the penultimate page makes some nice commentary on story and our relation to it.
"So... stories-- You're saying they're the teats of life?"
Uses the ancient Sumerian king Ziusudra, adrift on his own boat in a world flood, and his hallucinations from lack of sleep to tell several other flood stories. We see the Nile Delta, the Da Yu tales from China, Native American and a woman facing the possible loss of her family in Hurricane Katrina.
While tales based on hallucinations can work, they are often disjointed and that may get in the way of the story. I fear that here it does. The story also jumps back and forth between the tales which, for me anyway, leaves them more disjointed than connected as the authors are trying to do.
All in all, I felt this needs to be restructured and then have the tales connected more clearly to be effective as a story. Which is sad, because the penultimate page makes some nice commentary on story and our relation to it.
"So... stories-- You're saying they're the teats of life?"
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