Warwick Stubbs’s Reviews > The Ends of the Earth > Status Update

"some will say that by injecting a science fictional element, I'm trivializing the true Central American condition. But that's not the case. ... the slaughters, the mass graves, smoldering corpses, rape and torture, all thoroughly documented and all thoroughly ignored, this was merely a part of that, a minor adagio in a symphony of pain, the carrying forward of a diseased tradition."

At times Shepard uses the technique of backstory info dumps to explain a character's current state of mind. And I don't care.

Good, interesting ideas, but too many words. Too much explanation of feelings and motivations that slow the plot down. 'Bound for Glory' is a great story, but shorter, more compact storytelling, would have made the story much more impactful. As it was for its 30 page length, I often found myself thinking about something else...