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# Shriek: An Afterword Paperback – July 10, 2007

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## Customer Reviews

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    A Personal Memoir from Ambergris
  

*by J***Y on Reviewed in the United States on February 21, 2011*

Amazing.  Hallucinatory, surreal, frightening, yet also packed with complex characterization and genuine emotion.  Readers who enjoyed visiting the fungus-shrouded city of Ambergris in _City of Saints and Madmen_ will be spellbound by this engaging story of love and loss and the impermanence of all human endeavor.Initially conceived as an afterword to the "The Hoegbotton Guide to the Early History of Ambergris" by Duncan Shriek (which is reprinted in _City of Saints and Madmen_) the story becomes a personal memoir told in a rambling, almost stream-of-consciousness manner by Janice Shriek, Duncan's older sister.  With casual disregard for chronological order, she tells of their childhood, Duncan's education and the beginning of his career as a historian as well as her own tumultuous life as an art-gallery owner and notorious libertine - as well as her bouts of depression, the spectacle of her brother being gradually changed (in strange ways) by his obsession with the mysterious "gray caps" and his unreasoning love for rival historian Mary Sabond.  She recounts the gruesome war between two merchant clans vying for control of the city, and its horrifying climax on the night of the annual Festival of the Freshwater Squid.  The story is interrupted and commented upon throughout by Duncan himself in parenthetical asides (he having apparently found the manuscript sometime after Janice finished writing it) so the siblings end up telling the story together.The "gray caps" (a race of mushroom-people who originally inhabited Ambergris but were driven underground by the first human settlers) are a sinister presence in the background, discussed more than actually seen.  They seem to be up to no good, planning something perhaps ... having read _Finch_ first, I already know what it is, but I don't think this foreknowledge really diminished my enjoyment of _Shriek_.  Each book adds something to the Ambergris mythos, and they all refer to each other, so I don't think they must necessarily be read in any specific order.Even as disjointed as it is, this book is more coherent than _City of Saints and Madmen_ but less so than _Finch_.  It has some action and a bit of suspense but it is definitely the least viscerally exciting of the three.  But so much more emotional!  I don't usually like books that dwell overmuch on "feelings" but this one had enough weirdness in it to keep me fascinated.  I also jumped out of my seat at the mention of an event I recall from the strange case of X in _City of Saints and Madmen_ and which, based on evidence in that book AND this one, must be a recursive time-paradox.  Just another of VanderMeer's devious tricks??Anyway, GREAT book; I highly recommend it for fans of dark fantasy and the "New Weird."  I think HP Lovecraft would have been very, very impressed.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    different, strange, uncomfortable, good
  

*by A***R on Reviewed in the United States on April 22, 2016*

Quite different from the first book in the series. The biographical nature of the story telling tells a consistent-ish narrative rather than the scattered short stories of the first book. In the first book Ambergris was a immutable mysterious monster, any changes that affected the whole of the city were part of the cities history and so less real. The book spans a long time period and has persistent characters from whose perspective we experience the city is changeable and vulnerable.The short stories nature of the first book made me sympathize with the setting. This second book made me fear for the setting. The author knew where I'd hide my emotional investment and set a trap for it or maybe things just worked out that way.Get ready to feel some arrogance, anger, fear, loss and joyful nostalgia (BDD).

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    Fungus Among Us
  

*by T***L on Reviewed in the United States on October 3, 2009*

Once more we are in Ambergris. Siblings Janice and Duncan Shriek are the prime movers of this tale of above- and below- ground unreality. The book does not ever resolve fact from fiction - or whether either term has meaning in this constructed world. But, the book is about the cracks in reality.Readers of VanderMeer are well aware that he cannot use fifty words instead of three times that many to describe anything. There were many times when I suffered a whiplash from 'haven't I already read that paragraph?'. Sure enough, I had (almost) many times. But, that is the method of telling this story; linear has a slightly less than real meaning, too.The author is inventive, clever and witty. The story is a mixture of genres, so rather than trying to categorize it, I'll just file it under 'different'. This is not a good starting place for VanderMeer. I'd recommend starting with 'City of Saints & Madmen".

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