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A review by chillcox15
Bad Eminence by James Greer
5.0
If you write a negative review of a book and the first line in your review is about the narrator/main character being narcissistic or unpleasant, you deserve a swirlie.
James Greer's Bad Eminence is a quite engaging and wry story of the prickliest of translators delivering a story to Juno Temple of how they got enmeshed in a conspiracy by someone who totally isn't Michel Houellebecq who enlists her to translate his new novel before he writes it, with about 15 other wild things happening after that. It's right on the edge of falling down some alt-fiction rabbitholes (sending up famous people, shit happening just to happen, outre humor, bad psychologies) but Greer has a really great sense of his main character's narrative voice in a way that makes her feel like a separate creation from the author.
James Greer's Bad Eminence is a quite engaging and wry story of the prickliest of translators delivering a story to Juno Temple of how they got enmeshed in a conspiracy by someone who totally isn't Michel Houellebecq who enlists her to translate his new novel before he writes it, with about 15 other wild things happening after that. It's right on the edge of falling down some alt-fiction rabbitholes (sending up famous people, shit happening just to happen, outre humor, bad psychologies) but Greer has a really great sense of his main character's narrative voice in a way that makes her feel like a separate creation from the author.