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Work InformationWe Eat Our Own: A Novel by Kea Wilson (2016)
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. This review was written for LibraryThing Early Reviewers. I received a copy of this book as a free advance review audiobook and have chosen of my own free will to post a review. I found this book to be very boring and a waste of my time to listen to. The author skips around a great deal. The story doesn’t make sense and is very hard to follow. This review was written for LibraryThing Early Reviewers. This book is an absolute mess. Did not like it at all. It was hard to keep plots and subplots straight. The frequent change of tense and POV was jolting. It wasn't until after the completion of the audiobook that I learned that the story was based on fact. I don't think that knowledge would have helped. Even the competent and talented narrator couldn't save this one for me. Thanks for LT's Early Reviewers program for the audiobook. Unfortunately, they can't all be winners. This review was written for LibraryThing Early Reviewers. This book just was not interesting enough. I kept stopping and trying to go back and finish but was unable to. This review was written for LibraryThing Early Reviewers. I had a really hard time finishing this book. I disliked the writting and it was just no interesting. no reviews | add a review
"An ambitious debut novel by an original young writer, We Eat Our Own blurs the lines between life and art with the story of a film director's unthinkable experiment in the Amazon. When a nameless, struggling actor in 1970s New York gets the call that an enigmatic director wants him for an art film set in the Amazon, he doesn't hesitate: he flies to South America, no questions asked. He quickly realizes he's made a mistake. He's replacing another actor who quit after seeing the script -- a script the director now claims doesn't exist. The movie is over budget. The production team seems headed for a breakdown. The air is so wet that the celluloid film disintegrates. But what the actor doesn't realize is that the greatest threat might be the town itself, and the mysterious shadow economy that powers this remote jungle outpost. Entrepreneurial Americans, international drug traffickers, and M-19 guerillas are all fighting for South America's future--and the groups aren't as distinct as you might think. The actor thought this would be a role that would change his life. Now he's worried if he'll survive it. Inspired by a true story from the annals of 1970s Italian horror film, and told in dazzlingly precise prose, We Eat Our Own is a resounding literary debut, a thrilling journey behind the scenes of a shocking film and a thoughtful commentary on violence and its repercussions"-- No library descriptions found. |
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Me: I'll bet you a million dollars she has an MFA.
Geoff: How can you tell that?
Me (looks in the About the author section): Yep! MFA!
Geoff: That doesn't answer my question.
Me: What question?
Geoff: Is it any good?
So is it? Parts sure -- the chapter set in the city with the rebels was so tautly written and great to read. But that whole thing reads exactly like my idea of a stereotypical I have an MFA and this is my first novel novel (I have no idea if my opinion is justified, since, perhaps, I read tonnes of novels with those two qualifications and don't even realize it). What do I mean?
And so, it ends up being more like a bunch of short stories about a fictionalized account of the filming of Cannibal Holocaust. I'm not saying that this is bad, but it isn't the most wonderful book I've ever read either. I think it was marketed as horror. I'm jaded, so I wasn't that horrified. But, maybe I was supposed to be horrified. I don't know. I need a new POV chapter/character to tell me what I'm supposed to feel.
We At Our Own by Kea Wilson went on sale September 6, 2016.
I received a copy free from Netgalley in exchange for an honest review. ( )