There’s the nagging sense the writing has not been worked at enough to fully ignite the sparks lighting Blindboy’s mind. As a fan of Blindboy and his podcast, it’s surprising to find such scarcity of dialogue in his story collection. He is, after all, a master conversationalist; be it reaching the seriousness, depth and knowledge of the pinched-bottomed puce-faced arts programme contributor, or veering into madcap musing, akin to a drunk realising he has dropped a boiled sweet from his mouth while leaning over his dying granny. No matter, let’s see how this plays out, we might discover something. His stories have that sense of “let’s see how this plays out” – but a lack of talk and interaction means many characters fail to take form, and the book feels like a series of sketches that needed thrashing out and refined
There’s the nagging sense the writing has not been worked at enough to fully ignite the sparks lighting Blindboy’s mind. As a fan of Blindboy and his podcast, it’s surprising to find such scarcity of dialogue in his story collection.
He is, after all, a master conversationalist; be it reaching the seriousness, depth and knowledge of the pinched-bottomed puce-faced arts programme contributor, or veering into madcap musing, akin to a drunk realising he has dropped a boiled sweet from his mouth while leaning over his dying granny. No matter, let’s see how this plays out, we might discover something. His stories have that sense of “let’s see how this plays out” – but a lack of talk and interaction means many characters fail to take form, and the book feels like a series of sketches that needed thrashing out and refined
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