false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172182064m/146770.jpg 146770 2 <p> <br>When Rudd, a troubled teenager, embarks on a school project, he runs across a series of articles from the 1902 <em>New York Times</em> chronicling a vicious murder committed by the grandson of Brigham Young. Delving deeply into the Mormon ritual of blood sacrifice used in the murders, Rudd, along with his newly discovered half-brother, Lael, becomes swept up in the psychological and atavistic effects of this violent, antique ritual. </p> <p> <br>As the past and the present become an increasingly tangled knot, Rudd is found at the scene of a multiple murder at a remote campsite with minor injuries and few memories. Lyndi, the daughter of the victims, tries to help Rudd recover his memory and, together, they find a strength unique to survivors of terrible tragedies. But Rudd, desperate to protect Lyndi and unable to let the past be still, tries to manipulate their Mormon wedding ceremony to trick the priests (and God) by giving himself and Lyndi new secret names-names that match the killer and the victim in the one hundred-year-old murder. The nightmare has just begun . . .</p> 1133847 1 10 2006 The Open Curtain total:137|5:37|4:64|3:23|2:11|1:2| 137 534 198 32 146770 1566891884 9781566891882 136 32 3.90 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172182064m/146770.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/146770.The_Open_Curtain 5 2 false Sun Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Wed Jul 11 12:45:46 -0700 2007 Sat Jul 21 13:44:27 -0700 2007
i read the author's afterward, about how the novel...more...]]> 146770 1566891884 9781566891882 136 32 3.90 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172182064m/146770.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/146770.The_Open_Curtain 4 7 false Wed Sep 16 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 16 19:08:39 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 16 19:21:25 -0700 2009 more...]]> 146770 1566891884 9781566891882 136 32 3.90 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172182064m/146770.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/146770.The_Open_Curtain 4 0 false Sun Jul 26 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Jul 26 21:37:52 -0700 2009 Sun Jul 26 21:42:00 -0700 2009 Electric Flesh (both of which I was underwhelmed by), but I've been craving some "experimental" literary horror lately and I've already read virtually everything that Ligotti has written, so I decid...more...]]> 146770 1566891884 9781566891882 136 32 3.90 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172182064m/146770.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/146770.The_Open_Curtain 3 1 false Fri Mar 09 12:38:48 -0800 2007 Sat Mar 10 12:34:04 -0800 2007
The last third, however, is out of control. You can tell it's more mature writer, who's interested in ...more...]]> 146770 1566891884 9781566891882 136 32 3.90 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172182064m/146770.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/146770.The_Open_Curtain 4 0 false Thu Apr 02 12:23:38 -0700 2009 Mon Apr 06 18:10:09 -0700 2009 more...]]> 146770 1566891884 9781566891882 136 32 3.90 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172182064m/146770.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/146770.The_Open_Curtain 2 0 false Mon Jun 22 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Jun 18 16:05:27 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 22 09:34:57 -0700 2009 more...]]> 146770 1566891884 9781566891882 136 32 3.90 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172182064m/146770.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/146770.The_Open_Curtain 3 0 false Wed Mar 12 13:55:39 -0700 2008 Wed Mar 12 14:10:22 -0700 2008
Perhaps it's because I grew up among a passel of Morman sociopaths. Perhaps it's because I used to hear them howling in the hills behind my house, all the Morman he-wolves and she-wolves of my childhood.

It creeps me out just to...more...]]> 146770 1566891884 9781566891882 136 32 3.90 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172182064m/146770.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/146770.The_Open_Curtain 2 0 false Sun Oct 05 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Oct 07 20:44:10 -0700 2008 Tue Oct 07 20:44:37 -0700 2008 I really liked the main character ...more...]]> 146770 1566891884 9781566891882 136 32 3.90 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172182064m/146770.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/146770.The_Open_Curtain 4 0 false Wed Apr 15 14:36:20 -0700 2009 Wed Apr 15 14:38:17 -0700 2009 146770 1566891884 9781566891882 136 32 3.90 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172182064m/146770.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/146770.The_Open_Curtain 5 0 false Wed Jul 15 10:23:30 -0700 2009 Wed Jul 15 10:25:32 -0700 2009 146770 1566891884 9781566891882 136 32 3.90 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172182064m/146770.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/146770.The_Open_Curtain 3 0 false Thu May 15 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun Apr 27 20:57:18 -0700 2008 Mon May 19 16:09:11 -0700 2008 more...]]> 146770 1566891884 9781566891882 136 32 3.90 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172182064m/146770.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/146770.The_Open_Curtain 5 0 false Wed Nov 04 08:29:55 -0800 2009 Wed Nov 04 08:29:55 -0800 2009 146770 1566891884 9781566891882 136 32 3.90 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172182064m/146770.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/146770.The_Open_Curtain 5 0 false Mon Dec 07 16:33:41 -0800 2009 Mon Dec 07 16:33:56 -0800 2009 146770 1566891884 9781566891882 136 32 3.90 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172182064m/146770.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/146770.The_Open_Curtain 4 0 false Thu Sep 24 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 31 21:36:29 -0700 2009 Thu Sep 24 10:53:39 -0700 2009 146770 1566891884 9781566891882 136 32 3.90 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172182064m/146770.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/146770.The_Open_Curtain 2 0 false Sun Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sun Jun 17 09:37:11 -0700 2007 Sun Jul 08 05:53:14 -0700 2007 more...]]> 146770 1566891884 9781566891882 136 32 3.90 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172182064m/146770.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/146770.The_Open_Curtain 5 0 false Wed Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sat Aug 25 10:29:39 -0700 2007 Sat Aug 25 10:38:25 -0700 2007 146770 1566891884 9781566891882 136 32 3.90 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172182064m/146770.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/146770.The_Open_Curtain 5 0 false Mon Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Wed Jan 16 05:36:21 -0800 2008 Wed Jan 16 10:57:17 -0800 2008 146770 1566891884 9781566891882 136 32 3.90 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172182064m/146770.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/146770.The_Open_Curtain 3 0 false Mon Nov 17 17:25:11 -0800 2008 Sun May 11 20:17:53 -0700 2008 Mon Nov 17 17:25:11 -0800 2008 146770 1566891884 9781566891882 136 32 3.90 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172182064m/146770.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/146770.The_Open_Curtain 4 0 false Sat Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Tue Mar 18 14:53:22 -0700 2008 Tue Mar 18 14:55:26 -0700 2008 146770 1566891884 9781566891882 136 32 3.90 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172182064m/146770.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/146770.The_Open_Curtain 5 0 false Thu Aug 14 21:40:41 -0700 2008 Sun Aug 17 22:42:12 -0700 2008 Read this book. Read it now. Brian Evenson is on his way to becoming a modern Cormac Mccarthy with a great sense of storytelling style. This book will drop your jaw. One of my top five of the past five years I'd say. ]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=146770