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Victorian Psycho

Virginia Feito

3.5

dark funny tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Hungerstone

Kat Dunn

3.0

dark mysterious sad tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon - Eternal Edition 01

Naoko Takeuchi

5.0

funny lighthearted slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

The Odyssey

Homer

1.5

slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Trainspotting

Irvine Welsh

4.5

adventurous dark emotional informative reflective slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Faust, Part One

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

2.0

challenging mysterious reflective slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Address Unknown

Kathrine Kressmann Taylor

5.0

dark slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

The Epic of Gilgamesh

Unknown

5.0

adventurous reflective slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

George Andrews did such a good job on this edition. For that sake alone, it gets five stars.

The epic itself, as smoothly as it went down, I'd maybe give an 3.75. Can I complain about plot-holes that are almost four thousand years old? It's probably not even plot-holes so much as pieces of other stories not found yet.

I severely disliked the Sumerian poems and I can't even pinpoint why. Something to do with the pacing being so different I think.