Who recommended Adam Nevill's new collection of old stories, Some Will Not Sleep? Was it Droid?
I read the first story last night and enjoyed it immensely. Looking forward to the next one.
I'm half way through Langan's The Fisherman. Feels like this middle section is dragging somewhat. I really liked the two contemporary characters at the start but I'm less keen on this historic hypo-diegesis tbh. And the mystical stuff with the ropes and stuff... bit too fantastic for me.
Yeah, enjoyed that one too. Hes very good at shorts. Really love 'doll hands'.
Has the 'quest' started yet? It livens up quite nicely there.
I liked the black beach and the leviathan but thought the section before dragged a little. He pulls it all back with some old skool schlock at the end though.
"We were on the edge of a small basin above treeline and in the bottom were patches of old snow and a small lake recently cleared of ice... A lake like a gem set in a bezel of tufted tundra and rough scree, the water green with the luminous unapologetic green of a semiprecious stone but textured with the wind. Then it wasn't. The surface stilled and glassed off, polishing itself in an instant, the water reflecting the dark clouds that massed and poured against the ridges like something molten and it was suddenly very cold and the snowflakes began to touch the surface. Ringless, silent, vanishing. I let go the sled's bridle. I was fifty yards from the water. The snow heavier. A white scrim that darkened the air, that hastened the dusk the way a fire deepens the night. I stood transfixed. Too cold for bare hands but my hands were bare. The flakes struck in my eyelashes. They fell on my sleeves. Huge. Flowers and stars. They fell onto each other, held their shapes, became small piles of perfect asterisks and blooms tumbled together in their discrete geometries like children's blocks."
i did read Good Omens as a teen but i've been put off of Gaiman lately because of all the Amanda Palmer stuff.
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i just hate amanda palmer's persona, music, and fans. see: http://www.newyorker.com/culture/cu...ers-accidental-experiment-with-real-communism
really disappointing that NG would be a walking shill for her.