A review by doritobabe
Dead Girls, Dead Boys, Dead Things by Richard Calder

2.0

I really reallly reallllly liked the "Dead Girls" story at the beginning of this book, but by the time "Dead Boys" started I felt like he was attempting to carry a torch that had burned low, and allowed his protagonist to become catastrophic and unexciting. After awhile, Calder's poetics turned into dribble and was incoherent to the point of being boring. I am not a book snob when it comes to this writing style, as "Naked Lunch" is written in the same fashion and I didn't have such a hard time with it.