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Weird book.. Not interesting to me at all. The plot was strange and random. I like existentialist books; however, this just did not do anything for me at all. Ended up in my trash. I did happen to read most of it but wow I've never read something that I disliked so much. Very disappointed.


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Blubber Island Ismael G Galvan 9781479173396 Books Reviews

Blubber Island was an experience. Gory and action-packed, Galvan's debut is no literary masterpiece, but I was mildly amused by the length of creativity put into the fantastical storyline.

We all know what surrealism texts are like, but this is not surrealism it's a self-coined genre gutter surrealism. I was expecting a nittier and grittier Haruki Marukami, but that's not at all what I got.

There's a nice, clear start, but after a while, the plot gets jumbled and I got annoyed with the author's strong affinity for clichés and painfully imaginative, far-fetched analogies and similes, e.g. "The plague stopped moving up the stairs like a stream of turds hitting a dam" and "His eyelids looked like two swollen v-ginas" and the real humdinger "Estrada's bobbling lollypop head exploded like a Mexican piñata stuffed with M-80s and pig a-holes." The writing is tasteless and humorless; the tastelessness, I can appreciate, but the fact that nothing is ever remotely funny nor profound, is a bit irritating. Like this shouldn't be a book, just a bunch of inscribed doodles compiled into a 195-page ordeal.

This book had plenty of potential but the weak style and incomprehensible story disappointed me. Blubber Island needs a lot of cleaning-up to do if it wants to hit a responsive audience.

Pros Occasional bouts of penetrating insight // Interesting first few chapters

Cons In desperate need of (another) editor // Painful clichés used // No foundation of structure, dialogue, grammar, or writing conventions, whatsoever, which impedes overall comprehension // Messy plot

Love "Chaos is only destruction and suffering about the half the time. The other half is peace, love, and substance abuse. It's the original condition of the universe. Chaos is what we came from, and it's what we live and what we'll return to."

Verdict Bizarre in the most delusional way, Ismael Galvan's Blubber Island is a grotesque, macabre mess of a tale about the role of reality (whatever "reality" may be) and the power of the human psyche. The feeble writing and irrelevant superfluity were exasperating, to say the least; unfortunately, I couldn't enjoy this one.

Rating 4 out of 10 hearts (2 stars) So-so; reading this book may cause wrinkles (from frowning so much).

Source Complimentary copy provided by author in exchange for an honest and unbiased review (thank you!).
This book was recommended to me by a friend all the way across the world. I was a little reluctant to reading it because my friend's taste and my taste differs. However, I thought that I gave it a try. I absolutly love the book and could not put it down. I wish it was longer, I hope there will be more books from this author.
This novel may have had the potential to be a decent story, but the writer rushed through the work without care. There are problems with the pacing of the novel, which lead me to think that he just wanted to get the novel finished quickly, rather than focusing on truly cultivating a story. It's also clear that he had a very poor editor, if he used an editor at all, as there are many typos throughout. Points of view shift from line to line without any structure and the author also seems to forget about characters as he writes -- they will be present in one moment, but then are not factored into the group in the next moment. He also uses lazy similes and metaphors throughout his writing.

The idea of finding beauty in ugly things is a nice one. I could get on board with gutter surrealism in that sense. But the author's attempts at accomplishing that are drowned out by the rough, unpolished feel of his writing, the lack of cohesion within chapters (I am well-aware that the chapters themselves are not meant to flow from one to another, given the overall structure of the novel, but that does not excuse problems with cohesion within individual chapters), and the many mistakes throughout the novel.

If there hadn't been so many errors, I may have given the book two stars. But the truth of the matter is that it's poorly written and any goals of creating a new look at violent, ugly, and graphic material has been completely overshadowed by the author's lack of writing ability.
Weird book.. Not interesting to me at all. The plot was strange and random. I like existentialist books; however, this just did not do anything for me at all. Ended up in my trash. I did happen to read most of it but wow I've never read something that I disliked so much. Very disappointed.