The blurb on this novel by Tom Sweterlitsch, The Gone World, “Inception meets True Detective” says it all. You can almost feel the writing hurrying to meet some Netflix deadline for an original series. It’s a mess. Lots of great visuals, though the writing is only serviceable. But a good team of screenwriters can make it fairly reasonable as an 8 episode series. I’d certainly offer to help. There were so many places where it could have been improved. (I liked one Goodreads reviewer: “But there were just too many flaws:
~How did she never run into herself?” She jumps to alternate time lines a bunch of times and meets all kinds of characters from her other time lines but never even googles herself?
-
Recent Posts
Archives
Categories
Friends of African Village Libraries (I post regularly here)- Sortie d’animation au Centre de Lecture et d’Études de Béréba (CLEB)
- Compte rendu d’une sortie de l’animateur à la bibliothèque de Boni
- Some photos from Nyariga community library in June
- Échange avec un nouveau lecteur de la bibliothèque de Boni
- Gowrie Kunkua community library during the night session
- Encadrement du gérant de la bibliothèque de Dimikuy
- Sumbrungu Community Library, mid June
- A class came to read at Sherigu library in June, with their science teacher
- Compte rendu d’animation à la bibliothèque de Dohoun
- Une journée d’animation dynamique à la bibliothèque de Koho