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A review by yak_attak
Pimp My Airship: A Naptown by Airship Novel by Maurice Broaddus
3.0
3.5 - What a mess of a delightful book that's sloppy, confusing, stilted, fist pumping exciting, deeply thematically resonant all in equal measure. If any one thing, it's just overwrought - I honestly enjoy a florid, purpled prose, but here it trips over itself, as if. the language went out of its way to spice itself up without a reason for doing so. And this serves the uneven quality - sometimes the characters are razor sharp, you see the scene evocatively, and the drive is present, and then it slips and you miss character movement, or dialogue is artificial, or motivations are mixed. Things just happen and you gotta roll with it. And so on.
The strength lies in Broaddus' unflinching willingness to dive deeper and deeper into the depravities of policing and the criminality as an institution on which the country is created - the shining examples of which are these deeply ironic news blasts from the overtly fascist media of the day... which while it has just enough edge of unreality to toe the line, boy does it sure sound like contemporary talking points too. Hmm. Wonder why.
Give it a shot. Honestly I dunno if you'll enjoy it, there's plenty of reasons why you may not, but it's just crazy enough to work, and that kind of art should be showcased more often.
The strength lies in Broaddus' unflinching willingness to dive deeper and deeper into the depravities of policing and the criminality as an institution on which the country is created - the shining examples of which are these deeply ironic news blasts from the overtly fascist media of the day... which while it has just enough edge of unreality to toe the line, boy does it sure sound like contemporary talking points too. Hmm. Wonder why.
Give it a shot. Honestly I dunno if you'll enjoy it, there's plenty of reasons why you may not, but it's just crazy enough to work, and that kind of art should be showcased more often.