The Library at Mount Char

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It’s hard to know where to start with this book other than … WOW. What a trip. Imagine if the movie Mother!, Dr. Strange, and an M. C. Escher painting had a baby — you might be close to capturing the essence of this psychotropic tome. sci-fi жанра би си пожелал. Интересни герои, за които да ти пука, страховита ситуация и препускащо темпо на събитията, съчетани с превъзходното авторово въображение и усет към детайла. Като добавим изпипания стил и липсата на разтегливост в текста, се получава приятно, занимателно и дори смешно на моменти четиво. Може и по сълза да се пусне в края, никой няма да ви се подиграе. Steve sighed, wishing for a cigarette. “The Buddha teaches respect for all life.” “Oh.” She considered this. “Are you a Buddhist?” “No. I’m an asshole. But I keep trying.” After years of fear and torture at the hands of the Father and some of her siblings, Carolyn wants to break free from her living nightmare. She knows that she can't trust anyone, but she also doesn't know all of her Father's secrets.

A pyrotechnic debut…The most terrifyingly psychopathic depiction of a family of gods and their abusive fathersince Genesis.” —Charles Stross, Hugo and Locus Award-winning author of Accelerando and The Apocalypse Codex A first-rate novel… a sprawling, epic contemporary fantasy about cruelty and the end of the world, compulsively readable, with the deep, resonant magic of a world where reality is up for grabs. Unputdownable.”— Cory Doctorow, New York Times bestselling author of Little Brother and Makers I'm not sure I do either, honestly. I mean, I know what he did to us, but I really don't have any idea why."The distinctive mix of godlike powers and very human, emotional, knee jerk reactions contained in this story reminded me of some of the darker Greek and Roman mythological story elements like: the serial rapists (Zeus and about every other major god figure) and the unjust punishments of the innocents (Medusa, Actaeon, Laocoon, etc). Spending time in Hawkins' nightmarish novel is an exercise in trust. You have to trust that the novel might take you to deep dark terrible places but won’t abandon you there. That the scattered macabre details will eventually build into a comprehensible whole. That the buzzing sense of foreboding you cannot shake is not the sound that comes a moment before the wasps swarm. unusual alliances are formed, there is a great deal of violence (for those of you with triggers - many animals are harmed. people, too - scores of them - but i know a lot of readers are more sensitive to animal deaths, so be warned), and the story is not at all concerned with who the reader may have become attached to - this is a harsh realm.

From the author of Looker comes this "compulsive and unforgettable novel" (Mona Awad) of razor-sharp suspense about two local librarians whose lives become dangerously intertwined.And trust me when I say these characters are really *characters*. David has been studying war; he walks around wearing a purple tutu. Margaret’s catalog is death, and she prefers the company of severed heads to living people. Michael has spent so much time training with animals that he has forgets words and has a hard time speaking to people. The others have their own unique little oddities. Honestly, if you saw them walking towards you on the street you might laugh and think they were crazy. Of course, they would probably kill you 20 times before completely eliminating your soul, but at least you would die laughing the first time. I’m making progress.” He turned and rumbled to Naga in the language of the hunt: “Thank you for not eating me today.” Naga’s voice came from the darkness: “Your affection is not meaningless to me, puny one. I shall devour you another day.” Similarly, several times excessive force is used rather arbitrarily. This is understandable for Father and the Pelapi who obviously work on a slightly different scale, however even normal characters seemed to regard violence or threats as a first resort, something which again made neither Steve nor Erwin, our supposed perspective characters particularly easy to sympathise with. Thanks, Kelley, for recommending this book to me. I didn't know it even existed until I got your recommendation.

I absolutely loved this book! I’m not even sure how to go about doing a proper review. I know without a fact that this will be a book that I will remember 10 years from now. It was so great, weird and mesmerizing as I read it. narrator, Hilary Huber, is so credible with the various characters' voices! She kept me so riveted that I didn't want to miss a minute of this story! That being said, other aspects of Carolyn’s resolution seemed inconsistent, particularly in what atrocities she was prepared to accept, and what atrocities she felt a need to avenge. Yet, maybe this was absolutely intentional since one continual thread which runs through the book is the fact that the concerns of Father and the Pelapi are so far beyond the concerns of ordinary Americans, that even horrific torture and the scars it leaves cannot be approached in a human way.Gods walking the earth is one thing, but to actually watch them perform an infinite regression of events to create their own successors in such a way that the poor sap doesn't even realize it until long after the big battle is a scale of craft that ought to be left to actual gods, and not some person named Scott Hawkins, who, out of the blue, blew my mind by actually pulling it off. Now, Father is missing - perhaps even dead - and the Library that holds his secrets stands unguarded. And with it, control over all of creation. A tasty, if not always tasteful, tale of supernatural mayhem that fans of King and Crichton alike will enjoy. WARNING: this book contains violent scenes, including towards animals, which may be upsetting for some readers/listeners.