Islands in Time: Part IV from the Quatrain Some Die Mad

Rating:
Summary: Genius
Review: No question about it; this 44288 guy is right up there with the greats. Not only do you get one [great] story in Islands In Time and the three previous books in the Some Die Mad quatrain, you get your epiphanies, your apotheoses, your enlightened madnesses. You get your streams of consciousness and interior monologues. You get your unreliable narrator and fractured time lines and multiple points of view. You get a whole lot of sex both sacred and profane. You get long segments as good as literature can get written by anybody from anywhere and at anytime. Why this book and the whole Some Die Mad series is an artistic tour de force. This guy ought to posthumously get a nomination for the Nobel Literary Prize from somebody. The whole series sure as hell qualifies for a gold prize from somewhere. Sheer freaking genius. I really wish I was a book publicist....

Rating:
Summary: Genius
Review: This final book in the Some Die Mad series of four books rounds out what has to be a work of pure genius. Parts are done so well one has to say this is as good as literature can get...from any genre, any language and any time.