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Bad Brains
by
Kathe Koja
Still reeling from his divorce, would-be painter Austen takes a fall in a 7-Eleven parking lot that leaves him with brain damage and strange visions, a madness that sends him on a cross-country odyssey of debauchery and pain.
Paperback, 384 pages
Published
March 2nd 1992
by Dell/Abyss
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One evening, while in a bad mood, Austen Bandy has a run in with an irritating liquor store clerk and does a dumb thing on the way out the door. His mocking little bow to the woman sends him tripping off the curb. Weeks, maybe months later, he remains in hospital suffering from frontal lobe seizures. When the drugs finally get the seizures under control, he encounters for the first time the spreading silver mass that slides off the edges of mirrors or lurks in the corners of rooms, always ready...more
Stephen King endorsed the entire Dell Abyss Horror line. Here is his blurb:
"Thank you for introducing me to the remarkable line of novels currently being issued under Dell's Abyss imprint. I have given a great many blurbs over the last twelve years or so, but this one marks two firsts: first unsolicited blurb (I called you) and the first time I have blurbed a whole line of books. In terms of quality, production, and plain old story-telling reliability (that's the bottom line, isn't it), Dell's...more
"Thank you for introducing me to the remarkable line of novels currently being issued under Dell's Abyss imprint. I have given a great many blurbs over the last twelve years or so, but this one marks two firsts: first unsolicited blurb (I called you) and the first time I have blurbed a whole line of books. In terms of quality, production, and plain old story-telling reliability (that's the bottom line, isn't it), Dell's...more
Although, overall, I preferred Koja's "The Cipher," this book was still a worthwhile read if you're a Koja fan. It was a slow build to a pretty amazing finale, and I did feel that the wait was well worth it. The characters are somewhat more likable in this book than in "The Cipher," but still very much drawn in shades of grey.
If, like me, you've never heard of the term "duende," do yourself a favor and read the definition, at least when you're finished reading the book. http://en.wikipedia.org/w...more
If, like me, you've never heard of the term "duende," do yourself a favor and read the definition, at least when you're finished reading the book. http://en.wikipedia.org/w...more
Not my favorite of Koja's books, but given her talent, it's still worth reading.
Horror and madness, and Koja's trademark lush poetic prose style.
*note to self.copy from Al.
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I've been writing since I was very young, just about as soon as I could read. It's more than what I do for a living: writing is who I am, the way I see the world, the way I try to make sense of what I see.
But it wasn't until I attended the Clarion Workshop that I got serious about my writing. At Clarion I met writers, real live writers whose books I had actually read, who read my stories, offered...more
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But it wasn't until I attended the Clarion Workshop that I got serious about my writing. At Clarion I met writers, real live writers whose books I had actually read, who read my stories, offered...more
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