Reviews for Protein structure

The average rating for Protein structure based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2013-06-29 00:00:00 Rogier Thierry "The whole landscape was massively ancient, under scattered screes, the exposed cliffs below the glacial glens showing time wasn't finished with the world here. A landscape from an age unslept." "Jerry was famous for swerving to hit pheasants on the Bultitude Estates. When he copped one, he'd stop the school bus and scour verges." While hundreds of authors could have written either of the above passages, only Alan Warner could have written both, and done so within the space of three paragraphs. The Sopranos is a wonderfully ribald account of the misadventures of the choir of Our Lady of Perpetual Succor, in Edinburgh for a choral competition; it's sort of a Scots Girls Gone Wild, only infinitely more arousing, in every sense of the word. Warner not only has created six sharply individuated characters in the five eponymous Sopranos and the alto, Kay Clarke, he has also created memorable supporting characters, such as the barmy Father Ardlui, who is desperate to foster a miracle amongst his flock. Perhaps his most vivid character is the small coastal town, identified only as the Port, which featured in his first novel, Morvern Callar, whose heroine is briefly referenced (as "a bonny bonny lassie"). One last passage from the book: "An even though Fionnula's family was hidden up the back, in the dip of land where history put council housing, away fro the Victorian resort villas, even there, was saving grace of the skies where clouds would always move faster than anywhere these girls would ever travel to and where the dying light of day would falter in the slow-moving coal-fire smoke above where owls and foxes moved in the grey-black woods of the sheltering hills, hundreds of feet above the bus-stops." Alan Warner is what Miles Davis would call a "motherfucker"; the man can flat-out write.

Review # 2 was written on 2016-04-24 00:00:00 Jun Sato One of those books that remind you why you read fiction, and by extension why you live. Definitely a new favourite. The characters are extremely lifelike (so much so that I urge all followers of "men are from mars and women from venus"-like crap to read it, if a man can paint such a believable portrait of teenage girls the opinion that "we're just too different to understand each other, at least without crappy self help manuals" becomes impossible to hold). The language is amazing, too; poetic but without ever seeming forcedly "literary" or pretentious. Alan Warner has become one of my top 5 (at least) favourite writers in a short time, I can't wait to read more.