Comments on: There’s a facet of my socioeconomic-generational set’s consciousness that is feckless, effete, unengaged, delusional, and inconsistent: On Shane Jones’s novel “Light Boxes.”

By: Winter Break Reading | Poor Sap Publishing

Winter Break Reading | Poor Sap Publishing — Mon, 17 Jan 2011 00:12:01 +0000

[...] Boxes by Shane Jones: This, I couldn’t love. For reasons well articulated here, I just didn’t connect with this small mythological-novel. Interspersed throughout are nice [...]

By: What I’ve Been Reading | Poor Sap Publishing

What I’ve Been Reading | Poor Sap Publishing — Mon, 17 Jan 2011 00:10:48 +0000

[...] Boxes by Shane Jones: This, I couldn’t love. For reasons well articulated here, I just didn’t connect with this small mythological-novel. Interspersed throughout are nice [...]

By: curt

curt — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 21:48:36 +0000

totally agree/empathize

By: Pitz

Pitz — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 16:22:17 +0000

This has been said before, but the descriptive copy, with only artifical tweaks, could just as easily describe The People of Paper by Salvador Plascencia, a book published in 2005. I wonder how Jones could not be aware of the similarity.

By: HTMLGIANT / Linksy Galore

HTMLGIANT / Linksy Galore — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 14:47:48 +0000

[...] David Backer on Shane Jones: It made me write this in the margin on page 26: “it’s as if we can occupy a fantasy world of two-dimensional humanity hoping that truth will come to us. we sit and read literature like this as if we’re eunuchs in some feudal court, prancing around with velvet clothes and bells attached to our shoes trying out-somersault one another while beyond the windowless walls of the castle billions of people live dynamic and variegated lives, in many cases suffering at our expense.” [...]