10 hours after voluntarily admitting himself into psychiatric care, then slipping out unnoticed, Sarah Manguso’s friend stepped in front of a train. In the years that ensued, Ms. Manguso sought to make sense of his death and her grief. A former poet, she had originally planned to write a novelization of those ten hours. As time went on, it became clear she didn’t want to make up a story and the project foundered. This episodic work moves back and forth in time, details some of […]
Donuts must be the very essence of free will
Book number 5 in the Sandman Slim series and still going strong. Kadrey really manages to keep the tension while throttling up the action, the black humor and the giddy adrenaline indicative of the impending end of the world. That’s what Hell is. It’s the shithole bottom of the universe, but it’s a place where you’ll learn more about yourself than you ever wanted to know. It’s been a month since the end of the last book (and abdicating his throne in Hell) and […]
A long pale scar
I have been a fan of Erik Larson’s writing since Isaac’s Storm. It amazed me that the guy could make weather interesting. Not all of his books have had the same impact on me; I couldn’t even make it through Thunderstruck. I have since heard that others had trouble with the snails pace of the first two-thirds of the book and that the last part is quite thrilling. Perhaps I should give it a go. For me, though, with Dead Wake he is back in true […]
I’ve wandered deep in the realm of What the F**k
It’s been three months since the end of the last book and Stark is Downtown but being Lucifer isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. Enemies at every turn. Suck ups abound. Endless meetings with the council trying to get Pandemonium rebuilt. I’m a magician, an ex-gladiator, a killer, and now the devil himself and my greatest night terrors revolve around lost memos and trying to remember the Hellion word for “incentivize”. Just as I was starting to get a little bored with […]
Total sensory overload
The fact that this book was actualy an unproduced screenplay first and was then re-written as a novel makes sense and brings this book into focus for me. It’s every rom com with the twist that the starring character appears to be on the autism scale. Don Tillman is a professor and geneticist whose life is micromanaged down to the smallest detail. His take on the world does create a lot of misunderstandings that fuel the humor in the book. In an attempt to find […]
Hail Lucifer
Oh yeah, now we’re cooking with gas. This is the third book in Richard Kadrey’s Sandman Slim series and they just keep getting better. I had to wait over a week and a half for this book after finishing Kill the Dead and it was killing me. Then one glorious morning I got two packages in the mail: my Max Overdrive Video coffee mug and Aloha from Hell. I was doing the happy dance. Things in LA are about as normal as they can be after […]
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