gimley reviewed Unchangeable Spots of Leopards by Kristopher Jansma
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4 stars
An audacious book, and I forgot if that means I should rate it higher or lower. So meta, writing about writers and including their stories about writers. When I was younger,I'd have been really impressed by this book but now, I was impressed anyway, despite being off-put (put off?) by the ambition and envy and narcissism of the writers and their insanity (out of touch with fictional reality?) and the exotic details which were chosen for their exoticness and yet, because it's all so meta, are remarked upon at the same time. I was impressed that the author had the nerve to write this for I certainly wouldn't have had the nerve to even consider it but then I was impressed by the necessary bravery. Painstakingly researched, or at least appearing to be, or whatever passes for that in the age of Wikipedia, I either learned or mislearned, or felt …
An audacious book, and I forgot if that means I should rate it higher or lower. So meta, writing about writers and including their stories about writers. When I was younger,I'd have been really impressed by this book but now, I was impressed anyway, despite being off-put (put off?) by the ambition and envy and narcissism of the writers and their insanity (out of touch with fictional reality?) and the exotic details which were chosen for their exoticness and yet, because it's all so meta, are remarked upon at the same time. I was impressed that the author had the nerve to write this for I certainly wouldn't have had the nerve to even consider it but then I was impressed by the necessary bravery. Painstakingly researched, or at least appearing to be, or whatever passes for that in the age of Wikipedia, I either learned or mislearned, or felt like I was learning so much about the (fictional) world. Yes, I'll read his next book, even though I'll feel I was suckered in to doing so.