The Truth Is a Cave in the Black Mountains: A Tale of Travel and Darkness with Pictures of All Kinds, written by Neil Gaiman with illustrations by Eddie Campbell, is a lovely edition of the story first published in the Stories anthology. As such, I read it before. Two men, one small and one large,… Read more »
Yearly Archives: 2014
First Lines: The Deeper Meaning of Liff
Unlike that feeling you only can say what it is in French, there are things there aren’t any words for yet. John Lloyd and Douglas Adams’ The Deeper Meaning of Liff (the 1990 revised and expanded version of 1983’s The Meaning of Liff) matches some of those common experiences, feelings, situations and objects to some… Read more »
First Lines: Mr. Mercedes
Stephen King is a jerk. First, he gets you to care about a bunch of people waiting in line for a job fair, and then he goes and kills ’em all by having a big gray Mercedes plow through them. The story resumes with the now-retired lead-police detective of the case receiving a letter from… Read more »
First Lines: The Straits of Galahesh & The Flames of Shadam Khoreh
There’s a (now slightly outdated) joke asking why George R.R. Martin doesn’t use Twitter. Because he killed all 140 characters. While I’m two seasons behind on my Game of Thrones-watching, I get the point. While Bradley P. Beaulieu’s The Staits of Galahesh and The Flames of Shadam Khoreh, the second and concluding volumes of The… Read more »
So Much for Peace and Tranquillity
Last week I had two relocations. First, I moved from Leeuwarden, where I’d been living for the past nine months or so, back to Amersfoort, where I’d been living for the thirteen years before that. Don’t worry, my Most Awesome Missus, the Kid and the cats came along as well. Secondly, I started working on… Read more »