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[Clodfobble]

Re: Shades of Gray by Jasper Fforde (not really spoilery, but white-texted just to be safe...)

Holy fucking fuck. What a bleak and brutal ending, after being all deadpan absurdist humor and physical comedy throughout the first 95% of the book. I still can't decide if I'm okay with the ending--I mean, it would be a great ending on a different book, I was just so unprepared for it.

[DanaC]

Originally Posted by Clodfobble

Re: Shades of Gray by Jasper Fforde (not really spoilery, but white-texted just to be safe...)

Holy fucking fuck. What a bleak and brutal ending, after being all deadpan absurdist humor and physical comedy throughout the first 95% of the book. I still can't decide if I'm okay with the ending--I mean, it would be a great ending on a different book, I was just so unprepared for it.

Ahh, now, see, I kind of expected something. To me there was a very dark undertone to some of that ostensibly light material. A kind of dangerous infantilism.

Like the childlike vocabulary in Clockwork Orange.



It is, by the way, only the first of a series. But the next one isn't due until sometime next year (/sob)