Member Reviews

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  • Rated 4 stars

  “This is a wonderful story! By far the best part of the story is the writing, which you don't find very often. Some of the sentences are just beautiful - Long has a great command of the English language. There is also some play on feminist theory and general writing/objectivity issues, which end up being pretty amusing.
  The front of the paperback compares the novel to Lemony Snickets, which is so true - some of the names of the characters have underlying meaning, their is a villain who needs to be taught a moralistic lesson, and Our Heroine is reluctant. There is also some humor, and wonderful images painted in your mind. I think this is one of the few books that i would read again, just because the whole experience was so entertaining! ”

  Vanessa S wrote this review Saturday, April 5 2008. ( reply | permalink )
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  • Rated 3 stars

  “I like that I haven't figured this out yet. That may be because I am just slow. It also might be because there's nothing to figure out, but I don't think thats actually the case... I think what actually is the case is that _Icelander_ is a mystery within a mystery that doesn't get solved unless you pay attention while reading it and - possibly - re-reading it, which I will probably have to do. Lorenz, Mohs, and Curleigh made me laugh out loud. And something weird and wonderful happen to books when you start adding odds and ends or Norse mythology; you get things like _Icelander_ and _Summerland_.”

  boork wrote this review Monday, September 10 2007. ( reply | permalink )
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  • Rated 2 stars

  “It's clever--I'll give it that. And in parts it's funny. But it gets a little tedious following all the imaginary footnotes. Basically, the second I finished the last word of the last page, I had forgotten all about it.”

  Theophania wrote this review Wednesday, May 2 2007. ( reply | permalink )