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Oh the horror! (Oh, the not horror)

Red Pill by Hari Kunzru

Enderby Outside by Anthony Burgess

Katie by Michael McDowell

The Night Boat by Robert R. McCammon

Children of the Night by Dan Simmons

Blue World by Robert R. McCammon

Blue World and Other Stories by Robert R. McCammon

Enderby's Dark Lady by Anthony Burgess

Bethany's Sin by Robert R. McCammon

A Clockwork Testament by Anthony Burgess

The Fight by Norman Mailer

October 6, 2022 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

Red Pill – 3/5 This novel came out in 2019, but leads up to and ends at the 2016 US presidential race. There’s also plenty of energy connected to the Brexit vote too given that both Kunzru and his narrator are British. The novel begins with a writer being accepted into a fellowship program in Germany near the Wannsee building famous for the Wannsee Conference where Heydrich and Eichmann, among other Nazi officials, hammered out some of the details of the “Final Solution”. This, as […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Anthony Burgess, dan simmons, Hari Kunzru, Michael McDowell, Norman Mailer, Robert R. McCammon

vel veeter's CBR14 Review No:566 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Anthony Burgess, dan simmons, Hari Kunzru, Michael McDowell, Norman Mailer, Robert R. McCammon ·
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I should not be obliged to hear this voice.

May 20, 2017 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

I can’t say I am a voice of young Black men in America. I also can’t say I am an expert in the narration of Black experience in America. Nor can I say I am an expert in music. The thing is, I don’t know that I trust a British writer who is not Black to tell me these things either. As a novel in which I am finding out about a set of characters even through the lens of a kind of sub-culture (record […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Hari Kunzru, white tears

vel veeter's CBR9 Review No:211 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Hari Kunzru, white tears ·
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Aliens?

August 2, 2016 by Ale 2 Comments

I will admit I had serious reservations about this book going in. And even into the first three chapters, the only thing that kept going through my head was: But for the most part, this book blew my socks off in the best possible way, and I’m really glad I didn’t DNF it after those first few chapters. “Gods without Men” has a very “Station 11” feel to its structure, and if you liked “Station 11”, I would highly suggest this book. Centered around a […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Aliens, california, cults, desert, Fiction, Hari Kunzru

Ale's CBR8 Review No:13 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Aliens, california, cults, desert, Fiction, Hari Kunzru ·
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