Overall, another worthy entry in the author's on-going mission: Take Down The Establishment, One Institution At A Time. it is a surprising and refreshing point of view, particularly given the conspicuously high amount of sex present throughout the author's works. as always with the author, sex - whether as an act of love, lust, or horror - is presented in such a matter-of-fact way (far removed from the gloating, juvenile lasciviousness of Edward Lee or Richard Laymon), that the act itself carries about as much mystery and complexity as eating or sleeping. the idea is an interesting one and creates many democratic opportunities for both horror and irony, as the mindlessly reactionary, the complacently liberal, the tediously conformist, and the superficially rebellious are all enjoyably skewered throughout the novel.Ĭharacterizations are shallow but sympathetic and the narrative is built on a sometimes too-wide canvas.
unfortunately for the novel's cast, the particular organism that they're a part of is deeply psychotic. University posits a reality where universities are actually sentient beings, with each student and staff member acting as just one cell of a greater organism. this book's banal locus of evil is Higher Education. other subversions have included department stores, resorts, the postal service, and the insurance industry. but he will often make a point of satirically locating many of his horrors in the most everyday of places. while other authors with equally prolific tendencies are often content to jump from creature to creature, Little not only re-visits both well-known and more obscure threats (in addition to haunted houses and vampires, his topics include maenads and an invisible man). Bentley Little: subverter of iconic institutions.
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