Refresh and try again. Using the failed attempt to begin a colony at Jamestown, Sharpe tries to expand that into an understanding of conquering and ownership in a future distopia. For each thing this book gets right, there's a lot that it doesn't. Sign me up. He does not really do anything interesting with language (save for a few shining moments) but it felt dense and bloodless and sad. I know it's received praise from all over the place, and it was the LBC's "Read This!" I am interested in this period as well!This topic is currently marked as "dormant"—the last message is more than 90 days old. The delegation includes Jack Smith, who's saved from execution by the chief's daughter, Pocahontas (though that's not her real name); and Johnny Rolfe, who falls in love with her. That the book is a "fantasia" on historical occurrences is an interesting conceit, but the fantastic elements seem loose, only mostly thought out, and gimmicky. The delegation nearly starves while the natives marvel at how inept they are and alternate between helping them and undermining their survival, even attacking them. Indeed, the Indians' perspective on the events of 400 years ago is what gives Sharpe's satire such ferocious bite. )I didn't know I could like any kind of "historical fiction" but this is some crazy shit. There was something genuine in the flippancy of Rolfe's and Pocahontas's attitudes, but it went a little too far for my taste.

I think the novel would have been better balanced if Sharpe had given more face time to Stickboy or even some of the other Manhattanites besides Rolfe.I did not finish this book. See my little inI read Jamestown for post-apocalyptic book club. A Children's Color Book of Jamestown in Virginia by Priscilla Hunt -- This book was 46 pages with a paragraph on one page and a drawing to color on the adjoining page. Start by marking “Jamestown” as Want to Read: And sure, there are plenty of "clever" jokes I could do without, but the writing here is most often brilliant and fun and he knows when to pull back and balance the pomo cleverness with true insight and seriousness.

That the world is a meaningless—albeit interestingly interconnected—whorl of chaos and destruction and pain, and while beautiful and gratifying to be within at various intervals, is mostly directed toward a great big pile of entropic decay and a resounding So What pushed out through cosmic collapsing lungs and a throaty void. Born in New York City, but grew up in a small town in Connecticut. The book was recommended due to it's highly scatalogical content, but what I found captivating was the painting of a picture without revealing all the details at once. And sure, there are plenty of "clever" jokes I could do without, but the writing here is most often brilliant and fun and he knows when to pull back and balance the pomo cleverness with true insight and seriousness. Romantic relationships—a mere tangle of limbs and fluids and deceit spiraling towards disappointment and gut-wrenching anxiety and depression. Sharpe calls Jamestown, "an ahistorical fantasia on a real event." by Ellen Keller, The Virginia Colony (from the “True Book” series) by Kevin Cunningham, and Jamestown and the Virginia Colony by Daniel Rosen are a few more general nonfiction books to add to your Jamestown collection.

Those four stars should be taken with four corresponding grains of salt. Another recommendation from my weirdo friends, but another fruitful read nonetheless. But the whole book waxes on (and on and on) about language, the differences in language, the subtle things that actually led to suffering between the Native Americans and colonialists, but in the end it is a lot of sound and fury. Re-tells the "classic" Jamestown story of the first permanent English settlement in the Americas, except set in a grimy post-apocalyptic wasteland sometime in the near future. Sign me up. Using the failed attempt to begin a colony at Jamestown, Sharpe tries to expand that into an understanding of conquering and ownership in a future distopia. Goodreads helps you keep track of books you want to read. The most condensed one-liner of a description of such a mental state that even gets close for me comes (of course) from a guy whose name begins with 'Dav' and ends with 'allace', which is described as basically a inescapably intense feeling that every cell, molecule, atom and subatomic particle that composes the duly plagued person feels utterly, pinnacle-y (Full review can be found at the Chicago Center for Literature and Photography [cclapcenter.com]. It is one of those books about which you say, "By turns..." and then list three or four different emotions it made you feel.

But. Nothing was ever explained outright, but the picture nevertheless came into focus: specifically, a post "apocalyptic" world, where government as we know it has collapsed, replaced by tribal allegiances and a nasty, brutish and short life in a state of nature.

I wrote a short story for This site uses cookies to deliver our services, improve performance, for analytics, and (if not signed in) for advertising. Saunders-esque language, Shakespearean scenes of betrayal and bloodshed, Joycean sex-driven females (Penelope RaSynopsis: This story is a retelling of the Jamestown story (i.e.

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