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Title: Patchwork Girl by Shelley Jackson ISBN: 1-884511-23-6 Publisher: Eastgate Systems Inc Pub. Date: 01 January, 1995 Format: CD-ROM List Price(USD): $19.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.25 (4 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Fantastic!
Comment: Patchwork Girl is great hypertext and a great novel. It picks up the monstrous body/monstrous text idea from Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and really explores monstrosity in all its various forms. Certainly one way that Patchwork Girl is monstrous has to do with technology (big surprise there)--it takes hours just to figure out how to read the novel. But that's deliberate--unlike a novel, Patchwork Girl isn't designed to be comfortable but to shock. It's not violent or pornographic, though, and it's intensely beautiful and subtly comic throughout. It's not at all readable in the normal sense--you just wander through it at your own pace, never knowing how much of it you've read, always getting more out of it. And the writing is beautiful--you might expect the gimmicky technology to take precedence, but it never does. And the bathroom scene--just keep meandering until you et to the bathroom scene, and you'll see why I'm so enthusiastic.
Rating: 5
Summary: A great read
Comment: Michael Joyce and his "Afternoon" may get all the recognition for his work in hypertext literature, but there are many other important writers out there working in this new medium. One of them is Shelley Jackson, and her take on the Frankenstein myth is outstanding. For my money, Jackson has Joyce's novel beat in every way. Jackson does require that you have read Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, first, however, but beyond that, Jackson's book is very engaging and easy to follow. If you want to find out what this "hypertext literature" is all about, this is as good a place as any to start.
Rating: 5
Summary: Marvelous!
Comment: In this story of the monster Mary Shelley only wished she'd created, Jackson's voice is pitch-perfect and her illustrations are terrific. The hypertextual format is completely appropriate to the fiction's broader subject, but this sophistication is subtle and never overwhelms Jackson's good old-fashioned storytelling. Unlike the mega-selling fiction that's just self-help masquerading as art, PG is not a boring, consolatory fiction. Jackson's lovely monster may not change your life -- only you can do that, after all -- but you'll never regret the time you spent with her, either.
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Title: The Melancholy of Anatomy: Stories by Shelley Jackson ISBN: 038572120X Publisher: Anchor Books/Doubleday Pub. Date: 26 March, 2002 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: Afternoon: A Story by Michael Joyce ISBN: 1884511015 Publisher: Eastgate Systems Inc Pub. Date: 01 June, 1999 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Trouble on Triton: An Ambiguous Heterotopia by Samuel R. Delany ISBN: 081956298X Publisher: Wesleyan University Press Pub. Date: 15 May, 1996 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Poor Things: Episodes from the Early Life of Archibald McCandless M.D. Scottish Public Health Officer (British Literature Series) by Alasdair Gray ISBN: 1564783073 Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press Pub. Date: 01 January, 2002 List Price(USD): $13.50 |
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Title: The Female Man (Bluestreak) by Joanna Russ ISBN: 0807062995 Publisher: Beacon Press Pub. Date: 01 March, 2000 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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