I enjoyed Zone One quite a bit, but for literary horror, The Last Werewolf had more bite.
Reading: Zone One
A literary zombie thriller from Colson Whitehead?
I can’t think of better Halloween reading. Another fantastic choice would have been the thrilling and completely entertaining The Last Werewolf by Glen Duncan, but I’ve already read it.
Who wants to be that the zombie theme is really commentary on the modern self-absorbed, aimless masses? I wonder of Whitehead’s read any Gurdjieff?
The Sense of an Ending
After just winning the Booker Prize, I had push a few other reads aside (Sorry Hermann Hesse and Philip K. Dick but you guys are up next. Promise.) and jump this one to the front of the literature que. More on this book after the brief, but expectedly dazzling read.
Way to go Julian Barnes. I just ordered your Booker Prize winning book, The Sense of An Ending. Can’t wait to read it.
Going inside the mind of Philip K. Dick
The long awaited, oft written about and frequently speculated on Exegesis of Philip K. Dick is set for release November 7th.
His fiction is famous, but his philosophy has been somewhat controversial as he has been called a visionary, a prophet, a latter-day Gnostic Saint and a madman.
I’ve read bits of the Exegesis at the end of VALIS and it was fascinating. I’m sure the full volume will be mind-bending, dark and illuminating.
I can’t wait to read it.
Read The Last Werewolf
I just finished tearing through The Last Werewolf by Glen Duncan.
It was a few hairs under 300 pages of bloody, sexy, violent, very human, awesomeness.
This is probably the best literary horror I’ve read. It’s smart, rich with humanity—even though the humanity is mostly barely smoldering in the existentially tortured Werewolf, Jake—and very funny.
Favorite line:
Reader, I ate him.
Awesome line. Awesome book.
I just went on a bit of a big book binge.
Picked up Ghost Story, the new Dresden Files novel (guilty pleasure) and The Last Werewolf by Glen Duncan along with a few other more philosophical and speculative titles.
Now I just have to finish the Bolaño tome I’m traipsing through. It kind of meanders.
Another thing I need to do, when I’m near the end of a book, is sleep in the same room with it. Somehow the book doesn’t leave you when you’re asleep right next to it.
Joan Didion said this and I adore it. Besides, books are sexy.
I can't stand a sentence until it sounds right.
The Book Cover Archive
A site about book covers and the people who design them. How nice.