Certain quirks, like the words “rebus” and “freshet”, are present, and, like most such writers, it’s not always a good idea to read one of her novels right after another. No Henry James-like piling of subordinate clause on subordinate clause or long descriptions. Her sentences are unobtrusively long but unclotted. Koja is, at least in these novels, one of those literary writers who tends to write variations on the same story. The order I read them, Skin, The Cipher, Bad Brains, and Kink, was not their order of publication, and I skipped Strange Angels, so keep that in mind.
From her appearance on the Lovecraft ezine podcast, she seems like a fun person, and her guest appearance at Arcana was finally a motive to seek out some of her short fiction, which I’ll be looking at in a future posting, and her early novels. Koja’s name has been lurking in mind since reading her story “The Neglected Garden” (1991) in its original magazine appearance. Alas, things came up, and I’m not able to attend. Like the Bierce project, I did it in preparation of this year’s local Arcana convention. Like the Ambrose Bierce reading project of a couple of years ago, I’ve spent the past four months reading Kathe Koja on and off. I don't need characters to be the kind of people that I want to be friends with but everyone except Randy and Vanese were just so awful and annoying and wow, I just hated this book so much.ĭid any of you feel this way? I can see why this book is out of print but on, the reviews are mostly good, even great.Essay: The Early Novels of Kathe Koja: The Cipher. I'm not saying he needed to have a suit job or anything, and I get it that you can't help who you like but him and Nakota were two of the most irritating characters that I'd read about for a while. For example, he couldn't even keep a job at a video rental store and he's going around just judging the hell out of everyone and their moms.
Nicholas came off like a massive, whiny little bitch. The only people that I even remotely liked were Randy and Vanese. The idea of the Fun Hole is interesting and I had no problems with the darkness, grittiness and the overall kind of gross concrete jungle vibes but I couldn't stand almost all of the characters. I finally got around to reading it this month and without a doubt, I absolutely hated it. I much prefer physical copies of books but it's out of print so I finally decided to deal and bought the electronic version earlier this year.
I'd read several good reviews of The Cipher by Kathe Koja here and on other sites so I've been wanting to read it for a while now.
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