Richard Thomas
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"“Incarnate” has three distinct voices whose stories intertwine into an explosive ending. The novel starts with Sebastian is a sin eater, a shaman that helps to absolve the sins of the dead. He travels to a remote arctic town to stop a tear in reality"
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What an amazing book. I've been lucky enough to read this prior to the release and Mary Rajotte has woven a powerful tale. The authority, the magic, the grand weirdness, the emotion—it's a rollercoaster ride, and I could NOT put it down. And what a g ...more | |
“We trigger each other, it seems, some dysfunctional Rube Goldberg mousetrap, a laugh, then a slap, a razor gliding over a mirror, a glass filled, a glass emptied, a ball rolling down a length of pipe, a pipe filling up and overflowing with smoke. On our best days, we see each other for all that we are, and we find a way to make each other better.”
― Breaker
― Breaker
“In a city of almost three million people, a white van stands out about as much as a pigeon in a park. White vans deliver flowers, they carry plumbers, and boxes destined for front porches. This white van is unlike the rest; it has been customized. The flooring has been torn up and replaced with sheets of steel, powder-coated with black paint so they won’t rust or show stains. Metal drains have been installed, complete with catches, drilled in three separate places for easy maintenance and cleaning. There are thick metal eyebolts fastened into the frame in several spots, impossible to remove, at various heights up and down the walls. The gas tank is a custom installation, almost double the normal size, holding up to thirty gallons of gas, which means that it can drive for almost six hundred miles, to St. Louis and back, without running out of fuel. It can also cruise the dark streets all night long—for days, even weeks—before finally becoming empty, frequent gas station stops to be avoided. And the windows are tinted black, illegal of course, but hardly drawing any attention, so dark that even standing up next to them, it’s impossible to see inside. And for the driver, that’s a good thing—a very good thing, indeed.”
― Breaker
― Breaker
“I was a ghost, a skeletal frame of bones and sweat, a distraction for a night, barely something to cling to in the dark, a blank canvas on which to project whoever it was that they actually desired… I was a way station, a stopping-off point, to fill up and get off and move on.”
― Disintegration
― Disintegration
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“A friend said to me, “Hey you need to grow a pair. Grow a pair, Bro.” It’s when someone calls you weak, but they associate it with a lack of testicles. Which is weird, because testicles are the most sensitive things in the world. If you suddenly just grew a pair, you’d be a lot more vulnerable. If you want to be tough, you should lose a pair. If you want to be real tough, you should grow a vagina. Those things can take a pounding.”
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“Between the end of that strange summer and the approach of winter, my life went on without change. Each day would dawn without incident and end as it had begun. It rained a lot in September. October had several warm, sweaty days. Aside from the weather, there was hardly anything to distinguish one day from the next. I worked at concentrating my attention on the real and useful. I would go to the pool almost every day for a long swim, take walks, make myself three meals.
But even so, every now and then I would feel a violent stab of loneliness. The very water I drank, the very air I breathed, would feel like long, sharp needles. The pages of a book in my hands would take on the threatening metallic gleam of razor blades. I could hear the roots of loneliness creeping through me when the world was hushed at four o'clock in the morning.”
― The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
But even so, every now and then I would feel a violent stab of loneliness. The very water I drank, the very air I breathed, would feel like long, sharp needles. The pages of a book in my hands would take on the threatening metallic gleam of razor blades. I could hear the roots of loneliness creeping through me when the world was hushed at four o'clock in the morning.”
― The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
“Beautiful writing is more than pretty prose. It creates resonance in readers’ minds with parallels, reversals, and symbols. It conjures a story world that is unique, highly detailed, and brought alive by the characters that dwell there. It offers moments of breath-catching surprise, heart-gripping insight, revelation, and self-understanding. It engages the reader’s mind with an urgent point, which we might call theme.”
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“But on another, more potent level, the work of horror really is a dance—a moving, rhythmic search. And what it’s looking for is the place where you, the viewer or the reader, live at your most primitive level. The work of horror is not interested in the civilized furniture of our lives. Such a work dances through these rooms which we have fitted out one piece at a time, each piece expressing—we hope!—our socially acceptable and pleasantly enlightened character. It is in search of another place, a room which may sometimes resemble the secret den of a Victorian gentleman, sometimes the torture chamber of the Spanish Inquisition . . . but perhaps most frequently and most successfully, the simple and brutally plain hole of a Stone Age cave-dweller. Is horror art? On this second level, the work of horror can be nothing else; it achieves the level of art simply because it is looking for something beyond art, something that predates art: it is looking for what I would call phobic pressure points. The good horror tale will dance its way to the center of your life and find the secret door to the room you believed no one but you knew of—as both Albert Camus and Billy Joel have pointed out. The Stranger makes us nervous . . . but we love to try on his face in secret.”
― Danse Macabre
― Danse Macabre
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Hi, I hope you might consider reading and reviewing my new mystery thriller "Bless Me Father" at your convenience, thank you. All the best, Tom
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Thanks for finding me here and for the friend request! How have things been going lately with your latest book release? Looking forward to reading your reviews. :0)
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Happy reading!"
thanks for saying yes! onward and upward.
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I noticed that you recently put Battleborn by Claire Vaye Watkins on your "to read" shelf.
I thought you might be interested to see a recent post of mine about Watkins' very good sh..."
Thanks so much, sorry just seeing this now for some reason. I have the book, partially because of your comments, I'm stoked to dig in, and may publish some of her work, so I appreciate the message and the article. Peace, Richard
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I noticed that you recently put Battleborn by Claire Vaye Watkins on your "to read" shelf.
I thought you might be interested to see a recent post of mine about Watkins' very good short story "Wasteland, Wasteland, Wasteland," one of three stories commissioned by the BBC for their Future Anatomies series in March and broadcast on their show The Strand.
The post includes a link to the episode of The Strand that features a reading of the story, so you can listen to it online, as well as contextual material on deep time, including an online excerpt from Gregory Benford's excellent non-fiction book "Deep Time."
The post is on my Homo Artificialis page, which deals with the science and culture of artificial humanity (the science being real, the culture sometimes involving fiction, as in this case), one of three topical blogs that relate to my novel Luck and Death at the Edge of the World.
If you're interested you can find the post here: http://homoartificialis.wordpress.com...
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HA. Thanks, John! Appreciate the support, hope you dig it.
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I have the same view, mate, but I must've overestimated your ability to be disappointed. (Removes a gold star from your snobbery card.)
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