One Sentence Media Reviews
Watts has this way of threading 3-4 different core themes through an exciting narrative, and unlike a more conventional novel, he doesn’t really try to make them all relate explicitly; the result in Starfish is dense and difficult, but leavened with exciting plot and compelling, tragic characters, and absolutely mesmerizing.
This weird classic is great for being weird, great for being family-friendly but interesting, great for weirdly enough having a plot about an anti-tram pro-freeway conspiracy, and it’s funny it took me this long to see it for the first time.
So difficult, like frequently rereading paragraphs to try to glean some meaning from the dense, razor-sharp descriptions - but i reread and reread because i really wanted to, because it was so good!