This novel has a bit of a reputation as being something of a takedown of cons and Lovecraftians, and ... yeah, it's that. There's more here than Mamatas taking the piss out of those things, though--it's clear there's some real admiration of at least some of Lovecraft's writing, in addition to a clear-eyed grasp of his faults; there's also a good sense of the issues inside a Fandom, and Lovecraftians are probably not all that different in how that works. The structure of the telling, with alternating narrators (one of whom is dead) works pretty well; the story grabs effectively early and hard, but the ending gets a little slippery and murky. Endings are notoriously difficult. I'm happy to have found and read this.
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Episode Thirteen by Craig DiLouie
This is labeled as an epistolary novel, but that's not entirely right. There are entries that could not possibly have been written, fr...
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I read this book like thirty years ago (ack!) when I was in college, and I remembered liking it, and when my wife picked it as a classic-i...
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The cover text calls this something like "one of the most important novels" blah blah blah. It's not a novel, it's a disc...
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Not a novel, which ... well ... some of the events described in the book would stretch credulity in fiction. It's a book about the lie...
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