City Wars by Dennis Palumbo was Laid to Rest in the Compost Pile Yesterday

Let this .jpg serve as a sort of first eulogy for this terrible novel.



Now let this .jpg serve as second eulogy for a thoroughly depressing and boring stab at 70s leftie post-apocalypse sci-fi thriller.




At approximately 5:15 p.m. on Saturday, July 9, 2005, I dug a ~14" hole in the center of my compost pile. I placed a layer of melon rinds, strawberry tops, stale generic raisin bran cereal and black castings at the bottom of the pit. I laid my battered copy of City Wars by Dennis Palumbo at the bottom.



I then filled in the grave with probably about 11" of compost, then an inch or so of grass clippings. I then lay a touching bouquet of purple flowers as a final memorial to an unreadable book.



I am strangely unmoved and empty, but I will gather some thoughts and post them within a few days.