Andrez Bergen
Auteur van Who is Killing the Great Capes of Heropa?
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- Bergen, Andrez
- Officiële naam
- Bergen, Andrew Simon
- Pseudoniemen en naamsvarianten
- Little Nobody, Funk Gadget, Joe King
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- male
- Nationaliteit
- Australia
- Geboorteplaats
- Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
- Woonplaatsen
- Tokyo, Japan
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- Andrez Bergen is an expat Australian writer, journalist, artist and DJ from Melbourne, entrenched in Tokyo these past 13 years.
He published his debut novel Tobacco-Stained Mountain Goat in 2011, followed by One Hundred Years of Vicissitude (2012) and Who is Killing the Great Capes of Heropa? (2013).
He has also published short stories and comics (such as Tales to Admonish with Matt Kyme) through Perfect Edge, Crime Factory, Snubnose Press, Shotgun Honey, 8th Wonder Press, IF? Commix, Big Pulp, Ace Comics and Another Sky Press, and edited an anthology of post-apocalyptic noir. On the side Bergen worked on adapting scripts for feature films by Mamoru Oshii (Ghost in the Shell), Kazuchika Kise and Naoyoshi Shiotani at Production I.G.
He additionally hammers together tunes as Little Nobody, he covets sashimi and saké, and lives in Japan with his wife and eight-year-old daughter.
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Great homage to Golden & Silver Age comics with a modern spin and a decent murder mystery around it all. Loads of fun to read and it only lost me (slightly) with things that seemed too intrinsically Australian for me to grok fully (though comprehended enough by context that it didn't pull me out of the story).
Deze bespreking is geschreven voor LibraryThing Vroege Recensenten.Intriguing premise (Tristan & Isolde legend set in a 1970s Noir Disco environment). Execution is erratic, the novel wanders a lot but is sometimes quite interesting. Not for everyone. I really had difficulty finishing this book. I wanted to like it, the premise was so interesting, but the language was so affected and precious I had trouble finishing.
Deze bespreking is geschreven voor LibraryThing Vroege Recensenten.If ever an afterword should have been a foreword, it's the one included in this book. It probably would have helped to know this novel was adapted from a comic book. It wouldn't have made it any easier to read, but at least I would have understood the style choices. As it was, this was a difficult book to read, with many sentence fragments, missing articles and pronouns. It's one thing if it's in character dialog; narrative however should use proper sentence structure for readability if nothing else. As it was, it took months, literally, to get any traction in this book.
Once things got rolling, however, we have 1970's Tristan and Isolde (or Trista and Issy, with the roles reversed). Two leading, competing mob families are in the process of exterminating each other when Issy falls for the niece of the opposing family's leader. All of the '70's references were kind of amusing (it was set in the disco era, as the title indicates); the author appears to be around my age. I can't say I'm too fond of any of the characters, which is just as well given the fate of most of them.… (meer)
Once things got rolling, however, we have 1970's Tristan and Isolde (or Trista and Issy, with the roles reversed). Two leading, competing mob families are in the process of exterminating each other when Issy falls for the niece of the opposing family's leader. All of the '70's references were kind of amusing (it was set in the disco era, as the title indicates); the author appears to be around my age. I can't say I'm too fond of any of the characters, which is just as well given the fate of most of them.… (meer)
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- 147
- Populariteit
- #140,982
- Waardering
- 3.5
- Besprekingen
- 10
- ISBNs
- 14
On the other hand, moving past the prose, I was reasonably happy with the characterization and dialogue, particularly between the main character Trista and her mentor Governal. I was genuinely interested in her and what she was up in any given scene, and appreciated the dynamic created with Governal. A quick google search spoils the ending of the parent work, but I hope Trista did alright anyway (I didn't finish the book).
Additionally, I did find several of the individual scenes, particularly Issy's, to be pleasurable to read. So while this book is not for me, I think it does have some things to recommend it, just make sure to read a sample and find out if the way it's written works for you.… (meer)