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The Dying Horse
by
Jason Jordan (Goodreads Author)
"Natural disasters are running wild. The world is ending. Cats are talking. In the wake of an apocalypse, a young man is on a journey, of sorts, and along the way he meets a strange cast of characters who may or may not get in his way. The line between the real and surreal is a thin one in Jason Jordan's wildly entertaining The Dying Horse. With wry humor, Jordan tells the...more
Paperback, 130 pages
Published
January 24th 2012
by Main Street Rag
(first published January 10th 2012)
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Apr 12, 2012
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***This is a book I won off of First Reads***
The Dying Horse is a novella with a lot of promise. It tells the story of Erik, a fairly typical young twenty-something, dealing with what seems very much like the end of the world. I say a lot of promise because, while it ended strong, the first half of the book moved very slowly for me. There were a lot of random details that overall bogged down the progress and didn't do much for the world building at large. It actually took me over a month to read...more
The Dying Horse is a novella with a lot of promise. It tells the story of Erik, a fairly typical young twenty-something, dealing with what seems very much like the end of the world. I say a lot of promise because, while it ended strong, the first half of the book moved very slowly for me. There were a lot of random details that overall bogged down the progress and didn't do much for the world building at large. It actually took me over a month to read...more
(Reprinted from the Chicago Center for Literature and Photography [cclapcenter.com]. I am the original author of this essay, as well as the owner of CCLaP; it is not being reprinted illegally.)
So before anything else, a quick disclosure, that author Jason Jordan has participated in past CCLaP virtual book tours via his popular litmag decomP; although I don't imagine that many will accuse me today of favoritism, because I have to admit that I found Jordan's new post-apocalyptic novella The Dying...more
So before anything else, a quick disclosure, that author Jason Jordan has participated in past CCLaP virtual book tours via his popular litmag decomP; although I don't imagine that many will accuse me today of favoritism, because I have to admit that I found Jordan's new post-apocalyptic novella The Dying...more
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Here we have what amounts to survival-horror tale set in the post-apocalyptic wastes of Indiana. The story follows our first person narrator in the days following the end of the world, brought on by a series of freakish natural disasters. He sets out with the vague notion of finding his lost family and encounters a handful of memorable characters, including a talking cat, on the journey. Interspersed with the main narrative is a series of increasingly surreal dreams involving Jesus Christ, bizar...more
I actually won this book. It would have been better without the cuss words thrown in there randomly and the occasional crude jokes/comments. Also, there where a number of places that would have been easy to change to make this into a Chirstan book, which would have made it much better. Over all the story/plot/theme was pretty good though.
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Jan 24, 2012
Mickey
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5 of 5 stars
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Recommended to Mickey by:
bret easton ellis
Jaw-dropping Jason Jordan delivers a fearless and traitorous fiction that lays bare the human experience in a world where there simply aren’t enough books about the canine experience.
I loved how grity this book felt to me, even the talking cat and God showing up did not sway me.
Without giving everything away I felt that , at the end of civilization one person trying to kill others for no reason was too ordinary for me to buy. I can see kiling over resources but no reason other than to do it was not something I bought.
Other than that I was glad it ended how it did. But I wont be telling others to read it.
Without giving everything away I felt that , at the end of civilization one person trying to kill others for no reason was too ordinary for me to buy. I can see kiling over resources but no reason other than to do it was not something I bought.
Other than that I was glad it ended how it did. But I wont be telling others to read it.
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Jason Jordan is in the Ph.D. program for Creative Writing at Ohio University. Recently he signed a multi-book deal with Keyhole Press, an imprint of Dzanc Books, and his debut with the press is
Pestilence
. His other books are
The Dying Horse
(Main Street Rag, 2012),
Cloud and Other Stories
(Six Gallery Press, 2010) and
Powering the Devil's Circus: Redux
(Six Gallery Press, 2010). Additionally,...more
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