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Get Thee Behind Me, Satan

Devil House by John Darnielle

January 17, 2023 by jeverett15 Leave a Comment

John Darnielle is best known for being the creative force behind The Mountain Goats, a band I’ve gotten into in the last few years after seeing them open for one of my favorite artists. I remember when each of his first two novels came out I considered picking them up because I thought it was cool that he was also a writer, but it took the description of Devil House, his third novel, to get me to part with my money. The title building is […]

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jeverett15's CBR15 Review No:5 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: John Darnielle ·
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Not a horror but a meditation on an artist’s impact

Devil House by John Darnielle

November 9, 2022 by Mobius_Walker Leave a Comment

BINGO – Holiday (I originally picked up this “horror” book for spooky season and Halloween, and I got a good chunk of the book read on a weekend vacation) Gage Chandler is an experienced true crime writer. His debut book sold millions and was even turned into a movie. He’s good at what he does, and he has a system in place for really diving into and recreating locations for how they were when whatever grisly crime occurred. Gage’s agent floats a new idea to […]

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Mobius_Walker's CBR14 Review No:37 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: cbr14bingo, John Darnielle ·
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Devil House

Devil House by John Darnielle

September 5, 2022 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

If you thought this was a horror novel going forward, so be it, but don’t write an angry review about it. Admit your mistake and move on. That’s my advice to the Goodreads readers who are SO MAD that this was different than they imagined. And partly this is unfortunate because I think this is a very good novel and it’s beautifully written. The novel itself is broken into several long sections that circulate around a true crime writer who is taking on a murder […]

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vel veeter's CBR14 Review No:509 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: John Darnielle ·
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Behold, we too have a tale

Devil House by John Darnielle

June 2, 2022 by booktrovert Leave a Comment

  I have, once or twice, been near enough to the inside of a newspaper story to get a sense of what happens when something that occurs with real humans is interpreted and reported on by other humans. It’s a game of telephone writ large – suddenly, certain elements get dropped, others become far more prominent than they might have been when the event happened in real time. This can be disorienting for the people inside of the event, who have so much context beyond […]

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booktrovert's CBR14 Review No:41 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: John Darnielle ·
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“.. nothing makes him tick. It just happens all by itself …”

Wolf in White Van by John Darnielle

April 3, 2022 by booktrovert Leave a Comment

I had a hard time getting into this book – it was a combination of the beginning being slow, because the world in this novel is so specific and frankly a bit difficult to get into, and also there was the matter of a book hangover after reading Notes on an Execution. I tried to read a charming fantasy novel (Once Upon a River by Diane Setterfield) and stopped when I only read about 20 pages in a week, which is a good indication that I’m […]

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booktrovert's CBR14 Review No:30 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: John Darnielle ·
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“There was so much to think about if you just gave yourself time … “

Universal Harvester by John Darnielle

March 24, 2022 by booktrovert Leave a Comment

Do you think much about life in Iowa? I actually think I DO think about life in Iowa more than might be assumed – I don’t live that far from Iowa, and I used to do some pretty regular work traveling from St. Louis to Lincoln and Omaha and other small towns scattered around Nebraska. Sometimes, driving to Nebraska we’d get close to or even pass through Iowa for a brief period of time. Although these trips had very little to do with my day […]

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