Reviews for Tower of Babel

The average rating for Tower of Babel based on 2 reviews is 3.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2012-07-26 00:00:00 Alex Alex Spicer's attempt at a novel is, appropriately, cryptic, furious, and bitchy. His prose is actually pretty great-- he learned a lot from the stacks of pulp novels he kept around, I guess, and its a bizarrely elegant incorporation of all of his metaphysical fixations into a kind of sort of detective story (nobody really commits a crime until about 80% of the way through).

Review # 2 was written on 2020-09-15 00:00:00 Hanson So Wildly uneven. There are some great parts, particularly the first dinner scene and stuff about dreams. The letters in the book are good too. Spicer does a pretty great job of recreating and deflating the shop talk of writers. But a lot this book is a little too meticulous, a little detailed. I think it probably could have just as easily been a long story, and not much would have been lost.