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If you thought JUNGLE HORSES was straight noir or straight fantasy, you're gearing up for disappointment because Scott Adlerberg had bigger ambitions for his novella, and it shows by how he doesn't emphasize the genre elements of the story. JUNGLE HORSES is about changing, and about the earthly and the transcendent learning to live with one another. It's a story that requires patience too, because its meaning emerges from its two halve ...more
If you thought JUNGLE HORSES was straight noir or straight fantasy, you're gearing up for disappointment because Scott Adlerberg had bigger ambitions for his novella, and it shows by how he doesn't emphasize the genre elements of the story. JUNGLE HORSES is about changing, and about the earthly and the transcendent learning to live with one another. It's a story that requires patience too, because its meaning emerges from its two halve ...more
I admired the writing craft on display more than the story. Jungle Horses is well written but feels dramatically inert (in my humble opinion). The prose is crisp and has some real moments of genuine quality. But Arthur's story lacks any sense of threat - either in London or later on the island - and scenes seem to unfurl without every offering much in the way of tension. I never felt the urge to put it down, but I also never felt hugely compelled to tear through it in any haste to see how it end
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I've had Jungle Horses bouncing around my ereader for a while now but finally got round to starting it yesterday. Today, I'm done. A wild, swift ride. Notes of everything from Graham Greene through to Michel Houellebecq.
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