The average rating for Mike Nelson's Death Rat! based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.
Review # 1 was written on 2009-10-24 00:00:00 Steven Montesano It's sort of like if Eric Idle and Garrison Keillor collaborated on a project. And then gave Prince a cameo. |
Review # 2 was written on 2012-09-16 00:00:00 Alan Coe Cute, and the quality and writing style are about what you'd expect from Nelson. Also, the following things: * pervasive "light" homophobia as a form of humor * everyone's described in overt ways that indicate some form of skin coloring or racializing except the character loosely based on Prince, who is instead described as a "funk superstar" * that character is also written as the queer element that triggers much of the homophobic humor, despite ostensibly being straight, so maybe it's less homophobia than sexism, but he's still given depth and humanity as a queer(ish) character of (unmentionable yet insinuatable) color; until the resolution of the book, at which point he leaves behind his dynamic queerness for gender normativity * which is unfortunate because the intersection of his queerness and the "humorously contradicting" episode of gender normativity makes for an awesome bit of depth in this otherwise relatively shallow book |
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