Title: Pretentious and bad
Product review: Marcus is one of those contemporary writers who thinks that "challenging" prose is somehow a substitute for a good story. His writing relys more on wordplay and mangling the English language in a pointless effort to be "clever" than it does on storytelling. Yes, a reader can be expected to work harder with some novels than with others, but an author who expects work out of reader while giving him only broken metphors, nonsensical analogies, and sentence structure inspired by train wrecks is an unreasonable author, and to blame the reader is the refuge of the scoundrel. Its as if rampant obfuscation is a goal for him, rather than the bane of good writing.Marcus may very well have a good story here, though if he had spent more time writing it and less time trying to dazzle us with his heterodoxy, he might have actually been able to tell it.
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