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I Will Rise
Charles is an ugly, potbellied, acne-scarred line chef with a deformed left hand that triggers massive seizures. After a run-in with a cop and his dog, Charles is thrust into death, only to be risen again with the newfound ability to kill people simply by touching them.
His mission, of course, is to annihilate the human race.
Annabelle is a fiery redhead, physically blind, w...more
His mission, of course, is to annihilate the human race.
Annabelle is a fiery redhead, physically blind, w...more
Paperback, 360 pages
Published
September 25th 2012
by DarkFuse
(first published 2007)
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For Michael, we miss you, and here's a review I did of this book when it first came out:
A high school English teacher wrote this, no kidding. In all of my educational years growing up, from grades pre-thru-all-the-way-up-to-junior-college, I never knew a single teacher regardless of vocational discipline to write a novel like this.
His students must really dig him…..
And here again we have a first novel, this time fallen right smack dab into our favorite genre and the one I should be constantly d...more
A high school English teacher wrote this, no kidding. In all of my educational years growing up, from grades pre-thru-all-the-way-up-to-junior-college, I never knew a single teacher regardless of vocational discipline to write a novel like this.
His students must really dig him…..
And here again we have a first novel, this time fallen right smack dab into our favorite genre and the one I should be constantly d...more
In his brilliant debut novel, Michael Louis Calvillo tells the story of Charlie, a frustrated and disillusioned line chef who's just trying to fit into a world that he doesn't really like to begin with. He was born with a strange growth on the palm of his hand and eventually realizes that he can bring death just by touching someone. He also that his "purpose" is to destroy humanity. I don't want to give away too much plot, so i'll just say that the writing was superb, and the idea is very origin...more
Feb 09, 2008
Michele Lee
rated it
3 of 5 stars
Recommends it for:
Fight Club fans
Shelves:
horror-suspense
"I Will Rise" is a strange tale from the beginning. The prose is a jarring mix of common, even gutter slang ("super cool", "Nothing super wrong", "soooo") and sheer weight ("ferocity of my utterance"), as if the writer is undecided on his own voice. The voice wavers between a musing reminiscence and addressing the reader in a more conversational tone.
If there wasn't a sense of repulsion from this almost-anti hero from the beginning the narrator's well described efforts to keep himself from mastu...more
If there wasn't a sense of repulsion from this almost-anti hero from the beginning the narrator's well described efforts to keep himself from mastu...more
Charlie works as a line chef in a seafood restaurant. Since birth, he's been plagued by an odd growth in the palm of his left hand and seizures that are apparently triggered there, rather than in the brain. He's unhappy with himself, with his job, with his life, and has turned inwards, hating himself and everyone else. Yet under his loathsome (at least by his own account) exterior, there's a man desperately seeking his place in the world. And if God won't give it to him, then he'll find it for h...more
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I have interacted with the author through e-mail and message boards and thought he was a nice guy. Authors who I really respect talked highly of this novel. I maybe alone in this opinion,but i was disappointed by this book. I had high hopes but could not get into this book at all. It seemed to try way to hard to be fight club, but it lacked the sharp wit of Chucky P.
Well, this is my book so I am a bit biased. What did you think of it?
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