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So pleased to find this book, a perfectly engaging thriller for reading in my currently very limited spare time, as I direct "Twelfth Night" (and learn my own lines, and write the music).
So pleased to discover Carsten Stroud, not a newcomer, but newSo pleased to find this book, a perfectly engaging thriller for reading in my currently very limited spare time, as I direct "Twelfth Night" (and learn my own lines, and write the music).
So pleased to discover Carsten Stroud, not a newcomer, but new to me.
This one features plugs on the front from Peter Straub and Elmore Leonard, and that's a pretty pitch-dark evocation of what's inside: Crime and other human horror, flavored with a taste of the murky mystic to keep you intrigued and guessing. Set in a small Southern town with a strangely high rate of stranger abductions, "Niceville" takes off from page one and hasn't let go, thus far.
Such a pleasure to read a novelist who not only gets pace, setting and suspense, but sketches recognizable humans in just a few deft strokes....more
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Directing this for my summer Shakespeare company, The Rude Mechanicals, so the full truth is that I'm re-reading, having been part of productions before. This is my favorite of the works, in its poetry, its passion, its falls and flights.Directing this for my summer Shakespeare company, The Rude Mechanicals, so the full truth is that I'm re-reading, having been part of productions before. This is my favorite of the works, in its poetry, its passion, its falls and flights....more
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Just started. A bit more tell than show in the early going, but I'm hoping this will pick up.
It's about the long-running conflict between science and religion, as played out by a mildly rogueish antihero in Bruno, a defrocked monk on the run from theJust started. A bit more tell than show in the early going, but I'm hoping this will pick up.
It's about the long-running conflict between science and religion, as played out by a mildly rogueish antihero in Bruno, a defrocked monk on the run from the Inquisition, seeking a fabled book by Egyptian mystic Hermes Trismegistus, which might possess the knowledge to raise people to the level of a god or gods.
Sounds a bit more "Da Vinci Code" than it is; certainly the prose is cleaner, but much as I hate to say it, Parris (pen name of British journalist Stephanie Merritt) could stand to learn a thing or two about pacing from Brown.
But I'm only a few pages in, so things obviously can change.......more
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