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Dispatches From Wondermark Manor
by
David Malki (Goodreads Author),
David Malki !.
Victorian adventure -- an era full of top-hatted intrigue, dirigibles galore, all-too-demure sensuality and completely unironic classism. Now there's an antidote: Dispatches from Wondermark Manor, a rollicking, absurd, completely ridiculous yarn from the author of the celebrated comic strip "Wondermark."
Taking the tropes of Conan Doyle-style adventure fiction and ramping
...morePaperback, 492 pages
Published
October 2011
by Bearstache Books
(first published September 23rd 2011)
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Could not finish. The Wondermark comics are good, but this book was dreadful.
The author seemed barely able to finish a sentence without adding ten or twenty extra words, which left the prose unreadable at best. It's supposed to be a parody of Victorian novels, but as someone who enjoys this genre, it did nothing more than point out just how hard a Victorian novel is to write correctly.
Skip this abomination and get the Wondermark comics instead, which are readable and funny. This book is not.
The author seemed barely able to finish a sentence without adding ten or twenty extra words, which left the prose unreadable at best. It's supposed to be a parody of Victorian novels, but as someone who enjoys this genre, it did nothing more than point out just how hard a Victorian novel is to write correctly.
Skip this abomination and get the Wondermark comics instead, which are readable and funny. This book is not.
This is a very very strange book. It initially starts of as a collection of disconnected short stories and then the plot comes out. It seems to be set in Victorian England however towards the end a few modern bits and pieces start to appear.
I have read this book as 3 separate books. The plot is not always easy to follow but the whole absurdness of it makes it a must read for people loving literature which likes to stray far away from common sense.
Absolutely the best parody Victorian novels I have ever encountered. Nowhere else will you find such a depiction of cheese-twirling nor such a look into the secretive society of the Yam-Runners.
This book is absolutely hilarious and full of some of the craziest descriptions I have ever read. It starts off with shorter chapters detailing strange and comical occurrences in the manor, then seems to grasp a thread of an actual continuous storyline and follows through to the end. Malki ! is not afraid to take completely unexpected turns with characters, usually to their detriment but always for the greater good of the plot. Any fans of Victorian novels will love this parody and the many stab...more
I bought this book thinking that, as I enjoyed the Wondermark comics I might like this as well.
Big mistake.
If I could give this a negative rating I would. As it is I think it a miracle I even brought myself to finish this book. If I wasn't part of a book-reading challenge I would've chucked this book across the room a long, long time ago.
Big mistake.
If I could give this a negative rating I would. As it is I think it a miracle I even brought myself to finish this book. If I wasn't part of a book-reading challenge I would've chucked this book across the room a long, long time ago.
A great book when in the mood for a Victorian parody!
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David Malki ! spells his name with an honorofic exclamation point. He is the author of the comic strip "Wondermark", which repurposes illustrations and engravings from 19th-Century books into sarcastic, silly, and surreal collage-style comic strips. The Wondermark book Beards of our Forefathers was nominated for the Eisner Award -- the highest honor in comics -- for "Best Humorous Publication."
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