Thursday, 15 February 2024

Alrightreads: Sizes

Alan Partridge with Neil Gibbons, Rob Gibbons and Steve Coogan, Big Beacon

2023 / Audiobook / 304 pages

*****

With an innovative, experimental structure and supernatural leanings, Partridge soars to literary heights in what's either the second, third or fourth round of autobiography, it's a bit confusing and borderline incoherent at this point.


Mark Z. Danielewski and Regina M. Gonzales, The Little Blue Kite

2019 / Ebook / 96 pages

***

The Little Prince goes to art college. The artist gets a big credit on the last page, so it's totally fine that she's not credited on the cover and subsequently on websites, it's not as if the author set out to mislead probably.


Unknown, The Satanic Children's Big Book of Activities

2014 / Ebook / 10 pages

**

I've seen bigger, but maybe deceit is part of the credo.


Rhys Hughes, Dabbler in Drabbles, Volume One: 100 Short Stories

2024 / Ebook / 114 pages

***

What to do with yourself after completing a decades-long 1,000-story cycle than commit to doing it again over the course of a year, albeit in miniature. As ever, these brief sketches are mainly based around variably terrible puns that he somehow – astonishingly – hadn't done yet.

Faves: 'Ghost Skeletons,' 'The Watering Can,' 'Ice Monster'


Alan Moore and Oscar Zárate, A Small Killing

1991 / Ebook / 96 pages

****

I'd read this before, but hadn't logged it for some reason, and that won't do. Still not sure what his point is, but it's a good story.