Fotografía de autor

Mary M. Schmidt

Autor de Our Frail Disordered Lives

5 Obras 15 Miembros 4 Reseñas

Obras de Mary M. Schmidt

Cat Lady (2015) 4 copias
Persephone's Song (1992) 2 copias
Gemini Lynx 1 copia
Ask Not 1 copia

Etiquetado

Conocimiento común

Género
female

Miembros

Reseñas

So, Katie is your average lady: a husband, kids, a mediocre life, and an obsession with the Kennedys.

Not so average, then. Katie’s life, her slow descent into madness, is Ask Not’s key feature, and also the most poignant. Her voice is clear, as crisp as her characterization—she reminds me of a beacon, while the other characters revolve around her, moths-to-flame like.

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TissieL | May 3, 2023 |
Our frail disordered lives- strange title for a great book

Roach is a lesser demon. He was a soldier in the Angelic War and inevitably fell from Heaven. He is pissed. The pissed off attitude is due to a long term grudge against Lucifer, who under appreciates loyalty and is an utter bastard of a Boss. The grudge is centric mainly to when Satan blocked Roach’s access to be a primary character in Dantes Inferno.

Roach decides to depart and spend time with mankind for some rollicking good mayhem. Influencing, murdering, and demonic posession on a mass scale just to rub the devils nose in his revelry.

Mary M. Schmidt’s Our Frail Disordered Lives was well written, well researched, and damned well amusing. OFDL never out grows it’s britches or loses the humor it started off with. Bigger than a novella, but shorted than a novel, it is like a short story run amok. The title doesnt really match the feel or cadence of the book. Love the title though for another novel.

Great pick for fans of Christopher Moore’s Lamb, or Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett.. Not sure how the publisher lumped in with Horror, even the sections with viscera and blood were more funny than gory.
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Toast.x2 | otra reseña | Sep 23, 2021 |
I am not sure if the author intended this to be as humorous as I found it to be, I laughed out-loud a few times
 
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LGandT | otra reseña | Sep 23, 2018 |
Unique Long Narrative Poem!

I liked this long narrative poem. It was a unique read, and I loved the way the prose put together a story that flowed. "Most humans see just what they can, and have no concept of the span, of much their senses can't reveal, they know not of what's truly real." It takes a real talent to tell a story in prose, and have it make sense. This story was very good. I truly liked it.
 
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amyshan | Feb 5, 2016 |

Estadísticas

Obras
5
Miembros
15
Popularidad
#708,120
Valoración
3.9
Reseñas
4
ISBNs
3