The Nested Man is a sprawling nightmare of a book, one which worms its way inside the reader and doesn’t let up.
Steensland masterfully fills us with The Nested Man is a sprawling nightmare of a book, one which worms its way inside the reader and doesn’t let up.
Steensland masterfully fills us with dread and fear and a little of the uncanny, whilst telling us a story of a broken and desperate man searching for his way home.
A marvellous offering that harks back to past masters such as Bradbury and Matheson - but this book is very much Steensland at his very best!
I wanted to give up on this book so many times, but I got through it in the end. The book just didn’t work for me, however much I wanted it to… it hadI wanted to give up on this book so many times, but I got through it in the end. The book just didn’t work for me, however much I wanted it to… it had so much praise from people I hold in high regard, but it just didn’t do anything for me.
Could have been 300 pages shorter and you’d have still got everything you needed to know. Also, there were so many instances of going somewhere and then nothing really happening and the book became more tour guide than novel…it was also so very very slow…like s l o w…
I wouldn’t really say there was much to the book to be honest, I did like the idea of trauma of war and how this played out with varying characters, but seeing as this was my first Straub and also that it came so highly recommended, I might leave it a while before I pick up another of his works; I need to let the dust settle!
This might just be Michael J. Seidlinger’s magnum opus. The Body Harvest is an unapologetically radical novel, both in scope and execution and its pagThis might just be Michael J. Seidlinger’s magnum opus. The Body Harvest is an unapologetically radical novel, both in scope and execution and its pages are dank and dripping with nihilism, body horror, conspiracy theories and the self-destructive nature of the human condition. Seidlinger has written a deeply harrowing and disturbing glimpse at a subculture everyone is dying to join.
Ross Jeffery, Bram Stoker Award-nominated author of I Died Too, But They Haven’t Buried Me Yet & The Devil’s Pocketbook
I’ve feared recently that Chuck Palahniuk has gone off the boil, but Michael gives me hope that the depravity that man used to create (Chuck) and I coveted in equal measure, will continue and grow! ...more
The best work of LaRocca to date - such wonderfully dark prose and fabulously grotesque stories; fully cements LaRocca as a modern master of the horroThe best work of LaRocca to date - such wonderfully dark prose and fabulously grotesque stories; fully cements LaRocca as a modern master of the horror novella. Reads like a fever dream of Chuck Palahniuk and Clive Barker… three of the four stories are literally bangers, the title story and the things that don’t easily burn I would consider recommended reading for everyone… classics in the making! I was blown away, not because I’m friends with LaRocca, but because this books demonstrates a growth in his work, and that should be championed. ...more
Taking elements from the here and now; global warming, over crowding, our impact on the world around us and nature - Lebbon mines these concepts and uTaking elements from the here and now; global warming, over crowding, our impact on the world around us and nature - Lebbon mines these concepts and unearths terrors that will leave you cold. The isolation and contagion aspect of the book works to its credit, giving it a Thing vibe - but believe me it’s very much its own thing… ecological horror might be a category I’d put this in, and it’s sits near the very top of that trope, along with another Lebbon book Eden (if you’ve not read it you need to).
A thrill ride from start to finish, enjoyable characters, believable plot, and deep down in the permafrost - a warning, or has that warning come too late!
Pretty amazing story, short and not really like the exceptional film, but very enjoyable! If you’re getting this version of the book though, be warnedPretty amazing story, short and not really like the exceptional film, but very enjoyable! If you’re getting this version of the book though, be warned, it’s a short story and not a novel! ...more
Bringing his Road Trilogy to an end in style, this was a bloodbath from the first few paragraphs until the final pages… again, there is so much to admBringing his Road Trilogy to an end in style, this was a bloodbath from the first few paragraphs until the final pages… again, there is so much to admire about Bowyer’s prose, so cut back and streamlined, it’s just the facts and the facts cut like knives!
I enjoyed the fact that this one twisted and turned so much you didn’t know if you were coming or going and who was going to make it out alive.
As always, after some large and weighty books, I return to Bowyer as a palate cleanser and he never fails… this one is brutal, bloody and batshit crazy!...more
Depraved, awful, disgusting, disturbing, unsettling… I loved it.
The only reason this isn’t a five star is that I felt the ending, maybe the last act rDepraved, awful, disgusting, disturbing, unsettling… I loved it.
The only reason this isn’t a five star is that I felt the ending, maybe the last act really, was a little rushed, like the way it all ends seemed so odd given the lengths it had taken to get to this point, almost as if the writer had run out of steam and thought ‘yeah, that’ll do…’ I wanted a little more, it just seemed too easy at the end! ...more
Good, not great… I’ve read quite a few of his other works and this one was a really good read, but something lacked in the story for me, was it out thGood, not great… I’ve read quite a few of his other works and this one was a really good read, but something lacked in the story for me, was it out there, yes. Did it have some killer set pieces… yes.
Just didn’t gel with it like his others, and had to suspend belief quite a bit to imagine this ever happening - I know, Rats, was crazy, but in its crazy it was believable.
I did enjoy the aspect of old relics and the spear and the Nazi fascination with their obtaining them… it was good okay!...more
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