M. T. Anderson - The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation: The Pox Party Books

Pros: explores a part of history that often gets overlooked
Cons: stilted and odd

Amongst the canon of books written in English are more than a handful that might be good books, might even be great books, but are books I don't want to read. Frankly, I very rarely read anything I don't want to read. Life is too short. But I was ...

Pros: wierd, historic, deep
Cons: somewhat slow

The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation Volume I: The Pox Party by M.T. Anderson was an exquisite read wrapped around an intriguing, eventually gripping and thoroughly odd subplot. The plot overall is very thick and does ...

Pros: Thought-provoking, some great characters
Cons: Can be hard to follow

The front cover description of Octavian Nothing compelled me enough to buy it. I really had no idea that the story was going to be so deep and profound. Told in first person and set in the pre-revolution time period, the story starts off with you knowing ...

Pros: The creativity, the language, the originality in everything, the way things were worded.
Cons: Can be a little hard to follow at times.

The book is oddly fascinating. From the scholars who have raised Octavian, to the background of his mother's and his own origin's, up to the fact that the scholars have no names and have been replaced with numbers, is truly and utterly amazing. It's just so amazing that someone could come up with content like this and manage to write it so well. Five/Five stars because the book seemed so surreal and magical, yet so realistic because it could have happened at one point (yet the chances slim). Simply stunning. At a lack for words.

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