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Michaël’s 2024 Year in Books
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Michaël Wertenberg
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June 14
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Supernatural Horror Short Stories
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2017
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Pulp Modern: Volume 2 Number 1
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2017
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The Orthography of Madness and Misgivings
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2019
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Edifice Complex
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2024
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Delirium's Muse
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Stories to Tell your Children assuming you are a very bad parent
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The Quick and The Still
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The Cantabrigian
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The First Line volume 20 issue 3
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À l'abri de la raison
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One of the best collections I've read. It's brilliant how he expresses so much with what is not said. Much of the collections deals with the theme of alcoholism, but it's done so subtlely, without preaching or melodrama. Quite effective ...more |
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| My second Terry Pratchett experience was not nearly on the same tier as my first (Going Postal 5 stars). It wasn't bad, but the characters, weren't memorable for me, and I struggled at times to follow the crime/conspiracy plot at the book's core. ...more | |
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""Sometimes, if you want to see, really see, you need to look in the dark."
Dr Matterine kind of reminded me of Dr Powell from The Void. " |
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I enjoyed the novelty of the story-telling devices used in this work. However, I'm left feeling like there wasn't much of a story here. ...more |
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Gorgeously wicked Set in a small village in Germany in the decades following the great wars, the story unfold through a series of anecdotes told by various village children as they grow up and explore the darker sides of their curiosity, plan and exec ...more |
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This was OK. But... This book won a literary prize? (a few, actually?) Is the Pulitzer still a literary prize? I'm confused. ...more |
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I was expecting a horror book. This is not horror, so I was a bit disappointed. Despite the humourous, slightly quirky tone to the writing (which I was enjoying), the main character, who is a man in his 20s, gets infatuated with a school girl which is ...more |
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“Doctor Hilliard set his elbows on the desk and buried his nose in the tepee of his index fingers.”
― Edifice Complex
― Edifice Complex
“I’m one of the good subway conductors; I wait for them to bustle and bump and cram and claw into my box–not like Sanchez, who won’t even wait a half-minute. I’ll wait. I know how badly people need their box.”
― The Orthography of Madness and Misgivings
― The Orthography of Madness and Misgivings
“It jiggled with his breaths, the fat moving in ripples as if it were but a layer of skin covering a nest of squirming larvae; that if I were to get hold of a knife and slice him open, his belly would spew forth a torrent of little writhing things to the floor.”
― Delirium's Muse
― Delirium's Muse
“The truth is always an insult or a joke. Lies are generally tastier. We love them. The nature of lies is to please. Truth has no concern for anyone’s comfort.”
― Geek Love
― Geek Love
“No lives have been lost as yet, and none of our women have been taken," said Godolphin stiffly, "but as the fellow is a Frenchman we all realize that it is only a question of time before something dastardly occurs.”
― Frenchman's Creek
― Frenchman's Creek
“It jiggled with his breaths, the fat moving in ripples as if it were but a layer of skin covering a nest of squirming larvae; that if I were to get hold of a knife and slice him open, his belly would spew forth a torrent of little writhing things to the floor.”
― Delirium's Muse
― Delirium's Muse
“I’m one of the good subway conductors; I wait for them to bustle and bump and cram and claw into my box–not like Sanchez, who won’t even wait a half-minute. I’ll wait. I know how badly people need their box.”
― The Orthography of Madness and Misgivings
― The Orthography of Madness and Misgivings
“All I hope for is a moment of rational thought and one shot at action before I'm lost to a great saddening madness,...”
― House of Leaves
― House of Leaves
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