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Letter from Hell
This is the story of five unfortunate musicians. Each one has a cruel and twisted past with sins ranging from murder to prostitution. They are plunged into an afterlife nightmare when they are killed in an explosion and are sent directly to the Devil's blues club located in a suburb of the second ring of Hell. The band's road manager survives the blast only to live through his own personal Hell on Earth. It is a wildly imaginative adventure, dealing with many levels of the human psyche. Letter from Hell is a raw look at how we humans deal with death, the soul and love.
190 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1999
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February 3, 2015
I don't like giving bad ratings, but they're not all "diamonds in the rough" when shopping in a secondhand bookshop.
Less story than Palahniuk's 'Choke', less enticing to read than Tolkien's 'Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring'.
It starts off with a mother- of a vocabulary, mixed with foreign language phrases where mostly you just end up guessing what they mean. So an extensive know-how of the English language plus a couple of foreign languages might come in handy, afterwards you can pat yourself on shoulder because you totally knew what "sesquipedalian" meant (it's polysyllabic btw; synonyms - long[-winded]; related word - pretentious; also - a fitting word to describe this book).
Half of the book is an introduction of the characters who in the end you(read - I) couldn't give a rat's ass about and not really sure why some of them are in Hell. Then you have Hell where you could delve into the supernatural, but barely scratching the surface in a world of mixed mythologies.
Really felt like the author wanted to write about some cool-ass cats playing a cool-ass gig in Hell, but there was just nothing cool-ass, groovy [or whatever] about it.
Less story than Palahniuk's 'Choke', less enticing to read than Tolkien's 'Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring'.
It starts off with a mother- of a vocabulary, mixed with foreign language phrases where mostly you just end up guessing what they mean. So an extensive know-how of the English language plus a couple of foreign languages might come in handy, afterwards you can pat yourself on shoulder because you totally knew what "sesquipedalian" meant (it's polysyllabic btw; synonyms - long[-winded]; related word - pretentious; also - a fitting word to describe this book).
Half of the book is an introduction of the characters who in the end you(read - I) couldn't give a rat's ass about and not really sure why some of them are in Hell. Then you have Hell where you could delve into the supernatural, but barely scratching the surface in a world of mixed mythologies.
Really felt like the author wanted to write about some cool-ass cats playing a cool-ass gig in Hell, but there was just nothing cool-ass, groovy [or whatever] about it.
July 29, 2016
A fun, jazzy, quirky book. His singular voice is a little amateurish; the book can come off like a transcript your friend asked you to read. There are a few facts that should be checked, here and there... But that's part of the charm and beauty of this loveable little novel. Much fun.
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