Whalestoe Letters by Mark Z. Danielewski
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Book Reviews of Whalestoe Letters
Book Review: Provacative
Summary: 4 Stars
I had read House of Leaves and I find that one doesn't have to read it beforehand to appreciate this. It's a tale of what a mental illness does to a person and how they hold on to the familiar, which is what she does with Johnny. I found this so moving, and the experimentation with the print/fonts/spacing complimented the book more so than it did House of Leaves. Don't let House of Leaves stop you from this book if it intimidates you. This is a gorgeous, haunting examination of the mind that is right up there with Flowers for Algernon.Book Review: Heartbreaking and paranoid, tender and frustrating
Summary: 4 Stars
Near poetry culled from the Gordian knot that is the `book of leaves'. A mad womans letters to her young son from a mental institution. Heartbreaking and paranoid, tender and frustrating all that can lay dormant from a mother-child relationship in the "normal" world. I am pleased to know that they have chosen to produce this "story" apart from it's original form. I'm sure I'll read it again one day.Book Review: To It's Critics
Summary: 4 Stars
Many Great Writer's From Kurt Vonnegut To H.P. Lovecraft Have Taken Elements Of There Stories And Used Them Again So You Can't Criticize Danielewski For That. And Of Course It's Not Going To Be As Good As House Of Leaves. House Of Leaves Had More To It. It Is A Good Book As A Sort Of Sidestory To House OF Leaves.Book Review: good
Summary: 4 Stars
These were in the appendices of House of Leaves in the edition I read.These can be very confusing some times but the woman's crazy, so that's expected. In House of Leaves we occasionally learn about Johnny's past and his family and it's nice to see smething from his mother.
Book Review: excellent read, should have been included with HOL
Summary: 4 Stars
I've read House of Leaves twice, and neither time I felt like I was able to get through Pelafina's letters. However, it was much easier to read all of them in The Whalestoe Letters. Perhaps because they are all included in proper sequence? The introduction is nice as well.