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The Resurrectionist (Quinsigamond #5)

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"The Resurrectionist" is a wild ride into a territory where nothing is as it appears. Part classic noir thriller, part fabulist fable, it is the story of Sweeney and his comatose son, Danny. Hoping for a miracle, Sweeney has brought Danny to the fortresslike Peck Clinic, whose doctors claim to have "resurrected" patients who were similarly lost in the void. but the real cu...more

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Published September 1st 2009 by Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill (first published January 1st 2008)

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Jul 25, 2008 Jason Pettus rated it 1 of 5 stars · review of another edition

(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 here illegally.)

As some of you already know, I have been a twenty-year fan and student now of the related 20th-century art movements Dadaism and Surrealism, ever since first getting exposed to them as an undergraduate in the '80s, and in fact is the closest I arguably come to being legitimately "scholarly" on any top...more

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Apr 20, 2008 Joey rated it 1 of 5 stars · review of another edition Recommends it for: No one with an imagination

I can describe this story succinctly; a shambles. If there was an plotline, it might have benefitted the reader if the author had actually provided it.

Some might argue the style is surreal and the reader has to suspend belief. Dream sequences and comic book realities are fine tools to use in storytelling, but they must be hung on something if they are to be bought by the reader.

Characters are built up only to never be heard from again, a bit of foreshadowing is cast only to be left adrift in the...more

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Apr 28, 2008 Emily rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition Recommends it for: Nobody

Shelves: strange-books-that-i-might-have-lik

well, i am not really sure what the hell this was about. I think it was a very strange story,... it involves a lot of suspension of disbelief, there are a lot of characters that seem important that never flesh out, there's a few hairy instances that turn into nothing. I don't think i got it. I would have given it a two-star review but there was enough good writing and creativity in it to merit a three-star review, but i will not be recommending this book to anyone ever...

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May 16, 2008 Braine rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Every parent's worst nightmare. Literally, figuratively, and everything in between.

Not badly told (and I got used to the reader on the audio CD fairly quickly -- he handled a lot of voices well), but for what purpose? I've read The Magus, the Shining, and, more recently, The Keep, and they covered similar ground (the nature of consciousness and reality, gothic and/or classical horror, Dads running around yelling "Danny!") but with a bit more payoff. Early on I asked another reader if there was...more

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Feb 22, 2012 Allan rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: 21st, cent, fiction, early, reviewer, book

Ultimately this book has been engineered to be a good, quick read and little more: there is no there there. I found it gripping and yet a great disappointment. So many plot elements are left unresolved, story threads abandoned and characters undeveloped (including the fate of the title character).[return][return]The story of Sweeney, a pushed-to-the-edge pharmacist and his comatose son Danny and their journey to The Peck Clinic for better care and the possibility of an awakening is woven in with...more

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Mar 17, 2012 Alan rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition Recommends it for: Seekers after the sleep of reason

Recommended to Alan by: Previous work

This book came to me used, along with a bundle of promotional material dating from the book's original release, tucked inside the dust jacket. I'd already read and admired O'Connell's Word Made Flesh, and read this one earlier in a library edition, so I made haste to snatch this copy up from the table where it was languishing.

The Resurrectionist is a very different book, though, from Word Made Flesh, despite being set in (or rather near) the same old New World city of Quinsigamond that figures s...more

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Aug 09, 2010 Katy rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. When I think back on my experience reading The Resurrectionist, what holds strongest in my memory are the labyrinth settings and the dynamic movement between them. Something special happened with the construction of place in the novel: Jack O’Connell made middle spaces, unknowable spaces, dark places, and lost places the true gothic foundation of the narrative and moved his characters in and out of these places with a deft, thoughtful and fearless hand. Whether these places were the humble, inad...more When I think back on my experience reading The Resurrectionist, what holds strongest in my memory are the labyrinth settings and the dynamic movement between them. Something special happened with the construction of place in the novel: Jack O’Connell made middle spaces, unknowable spaces, dark places, and lost places the true gothic foundation of the narrative and moved his characters in and out of these places with a deft, thoughtful and fearless hand. Whether these places were the humble, inadequate apartment Sweeney finds himself living in, the mythic glass cupola where the near-insane Dr. Peck drinks, stares mesmerized by undulating trees, and talks to a preternaturally conscious salamander, the hulking, dark Peck Clinic castle honeycombed by too-tall hallways and populated with constant sleepers and tortured insomniacs, the abandoned, rust-belt factory the Abominations claimed for a clubhouse haunted by prosthetics and slowly-dying traitors, or the magical and terrifying world of Limbo through which our gang of freaks trek undaunted by hate and misunderstanding like a moral compass that points only to the ambiguity and danger of hope, O’Connell takes us to each one, establishes pertinent details and sets our point of view with ease and confidence.

O’Connell’s ability to play with ideas through place was both accessible and startling. When Sweeney finally succumbs to a drug-induced, ritualistic, exploratory coma with the Abomination gang, he finds his son. Danny leads his father through his new world, his limbo, sharing his experience of his current existence through the surrounding symbols, showing Sweeney the story of his accident through painful and visceral first person immersion. Through Sweeney’s trip, as O’Connell nimbly includes myriad surrounding detail, you never lose sight of the fact that Danny is striving to share something with his dad and that Sweeney, although holding up the appearance of struggling valiantly against the cage of tragedy he constructed for himself, is resisting new information, is terrified to know the truth, is terrified to know that his son can be without him in this new place where he can only visit.

This skill to guide a reader through place without confusing or losing them is rare and when dealing with such charged subject matter, a clearly communicated vision is incredibly useful in building a readers trust. Perhaps this is a standard in pulp thrillers, the ability to move action through time and space, but I have a feeling that O’Connell is particularly good at it. Not only are places important and well-presented, the journey is also key. The travels of the Limbo freaks and in the conclusion, Sweeney and the Abominations mirroring journey are well-timed, cinematically presented and strategic. We moved with the freaks to their final transformation and then, as we the readers contemplate Chicken Boy’s lack of metamorphosis, O’Connell carefully leads us to Danny’s completion of the transformation, his tragic accident leading to his access to Limbo and his personal understanding of reason for the tantrum that led to the coma.

Through it all I found Sweeney deeply sympathetic which is pretty impressive considering his sad-sack/self-pity commitment. I appreciated all the visceral expressions of grief and fear and loss, I liked how Sweeney worked around to his choices and finally, gained his own agency. Although Sweeney’s final decision to partner with Nadia, drug Buzz Coat and take off into the unknown on a quest for both more answers and more questions was just the right kind of ambiguity for me.

I really enjoyed this book – it was a quick read but compelled me multiple times to stop and think. I liked Dr. Peck’s Au Rebours behavior; all the Lynchian influence (I always think David Lynch works better as an influence than in creating his own stuff); the two bookends of femininity, Nora and Nadia, two extremes framing the absence that was Sweeney’s dead wife; the respect given to Danny, and in extension childhood and his opinions and his ideas; the Lost Boys aspect of the Abominations; the ruin of iron-belt America, the little bits of Kafka, and all the aesthetic details. It was a very satisfying read and I see no reason that it shouldn’t be a movie.

I think it would have been a very different book had the Limbo sections been true comics and I would really like to see that as well. (less)

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Dec 01, 2009 M.D. rated it 2 of 5 stars

Shelves: mysteries, literary

The Resurrectionist is the story of Sweeny, a father who desperately wants to find a way to re-awaken his comatose son, Danny. To that end, he arrives at the "Peck," a private clinic renown for its care of patients in a coma.

Interwoven into Sweeny's journey is the comic book story of Limbo, the journey of a troupe of "freaks" in search of a place in the world.

This book is strangely fascinating in a Kafkaesque way, and although I found it plodding at times, I was prodded into finishing it. The em...more

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Jun 18, 2009 Sarah B. rated it 1 of 5 stars · review of another edition Recommends it for: Nobody

Shelves: library-books

This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. Wow, I wish I could sit down and write a review as good as Jason Pettus's! Interestingly, I had a slightly different experience: I skimmed most of the book and really only focused on the last three chapters -- which is, as far as I can tell, the only part where anything interesting happened.

After foraging into the first "comic book" section of the novel, I abandoned these altogether and decided to read just the main plot. Although I love a good Wonder Woman as much as the next girl, I lacked the...more Wow, I wish I could sit down and write a review as good as Jason Pettus's! Interestingly, I had a slightly different experience: I skimmed most of the book and really only focused on the last three chapters -- which is, as far as I can tell, the only part where anything interesting happened.

After foraging into the first "comic book" section of the novel, I abandoned these altogether and decided to read just the main plot. Although I love a good Wonder Woman as much as the next girl, I lacked the patience necessary for whatever kind of "graphic novel" O'Connell was working into an adjacent (possibly connected, who knows) plot of the book. So I never answered the koan-like question that the book inadvertently poses: What is the point of a graphic novel without artwork? Just the idea of a graphic novel isn't -- to me -- inherently cool enough to make that much unrelated reading worth my time.

The main plot was boring and brutal right up to the resolution, when it turned sweet and kind of sappy but at least satisfying. I wished I could have liked the characters more so that I could care what happened to them, but mostly I found them dull or sickening. Nadia, in particular, was repulsive. Of course the reader could guess that she was the "true" leader of the biker gang by about halfway through the book, but the idea of a stunningly beautiful woman controlling a dangerous and anarchic group of misfit bikers by having sex with all of them made me want to gag. What is O'Connell, a fifteen year old highschool student writing for his own private pleasure? Did he draw sketches of her busting out of her black leather bodices in the margins of his drafts? Oh, Nadia, you are a cliché from the mind of a man who doesn't give a shit about believable female characters.

Overall, the book disappointed. I liked the relationship between the father and the son, but it wasn't compelling enough to make me glad I dragged through all 300 pages (minus the comic book parts). The book aspires to discuss the nature of consciousness and where it resides, but fails. There's nothing here that you couldn't get by watching "Brazil" again. Skip it!(less)

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Aug 24, 2011 Tina rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

This book reminded me of a Stephen King novel, not because it was scary, but because the ending was SO weak. Just like King, this guy wrote an absorbing novel with interesting characters, an intriguing mystery, but a super crap ending. It seemed like he just didn't know how to end it, which really sucked, because I couldn't put it down for the most part. There were other problems that seemed to crop up around page 225 now that I think about it: the use of the serum by the (stereotypical) bikers...more

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Jan 12, 2013 Samantha Boyette rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: 2013

A very strange book. The author writes beautifully if not a little confusingly. The story moves back and forth between the real world of Sweeny the pharmacist hoping for a miracle to bring his comatose son back, and the world of Limbo. Limbo is a comic within the story, and though many people seem to think that part of the book was sort of lame, I actually liked that story better than the real world one.

Maybe I just don't do well with stories that don't make much sense. The Limbo story was fair...more

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Dec 02, 2011 Nicole rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: fiction

Maybe the ultimate in that broad/vague genre called “speculative” fiction--a speculation on the nature of consciousness itself. Up till now, O’Connell has been known as a mystery writer, and his plotting skills are on elaborate display here, as three distinct worlds are brought into collision. At the center is the character of Sweeney, a completely isolated, guilt-ridden and anger-driven insomniac father/widower, navigating a nightmarish reality of a new job as pharmacist at the Peck, a clinic t...more Maybe the ultimate in that broad/vague genre called “speculative” fiction--a speculation on the nature of consciousness itself. Up till now, O’Connell has been known as a mystery writer, and his plotting skills are on elaborate display here, as three distinct worlds are brought into collision. At the center is the character of Sweeney, a completely isolated, guilt-ridden and anger-driven insomniac father/widower, navigating a nightmarish reality of a new job as pharmacist at the Peck, a clinic to which he’s transferred his comatose 6-year-old son Danny (victim of a mysterious fall down stairs) in hope of a miracle cure. Peck and his daughter represent a kind of Frankensteinian over-reach involving harvesting stem cells from aborted fetuses (Sweeney doesn’t know the details). When he’s not working the night shift, Sweeney is reading to his son from the boy’s favorite comic book series, “Limbo,” which is written up in separate chapters of the book and is every bit as compelling as the “real” story. There’s a doubling of characters here: Chicken Boy clearly meant to represent Danny, the evil Dr. Fleiss (Peck), who is the resurrectionist of the title (who, it turns out, is chasing the band of circus freaks out of a desire to resurrect them as “normal”--which he has the power to do, and does (except for Chick)--an ending to the comic series to which Danny objected so violently the ensuing tantrum turns out to be what led to his fall. He didn’t object to Chick’s death, but to the “death”/normalization of the freaks. Sweeney learns this via an hallucinatory journey into Limbo (brought on by injection of a drug concocted by the chemist who hangs with a biker gang that includes some of Danny’s brain fluid--yes, I know how this part sounds…) where he sees Danny’s accident from Danny’s point of view. The biker gang, named the Abomination and individually named for various animals, represents another doubling of the freaks--their motivations are unfortunately unclear, but they’re trying to free Sweeney’s mind from the notion that Danny’s return to him is possible or even desirable, while he can be with his son in Danny’s world of Limbo. The hookup between the worlds is one of Danny’s nurses, Nadia, who has worked at a number of coma clinics and believes that the ultimate answer (permanent Limbo??) is at a place in the Old World (Gehenna--the comic book world the freaks are trying to reach?), to which everyone in the gang--and Sweeney and son--is journeying at the end of the novel. Obviously raises more questions than it answers, but is amazingly imaginative and compelling (talk about a book you can’t put down!) and hard to stop thinking about. Forgiveness--Sweeney of his son and suicide wife--son of father, etc., key.(less)

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Feb 05, 2009 Bookmarks Magazine added it · review of another edition

Although it has its strengths, The Resurrectionist is not for everyone. The novel slips imperfectly between grim reality and dark fantasy, and for some critics, the intense drama, imaginative scenery, and significant themes did not overcome frustrating structural difficulties. O'Connell has embedded a touching father-son story within the work; however, to reach this dramatic core, the reader must be patient and willing to overlook the novel's difficult framework. Still, critics praised many of t

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Apr 11, 2008 Megan rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: quirky-fiction

I've got to mull this one over some more. Very weird premise of a father trying to connect to his comatose son through the fantasy world of his favorite comic. I wanted to love it, and I did enjoy the noir/fantasy mash-up aspects, but there were places were it didn't seem as fully realized a concept as it could have been. Still, pretty cool.

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Jan 08, 2009 Gerard rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

When I was little I used to enjoy swimming far out in lake michigan, letting some air out of my lungs and then floating to the bottom. It was dark, quiet and loud at the same time, but completely enveloping (I could make a plug here for Henry James but I won't). But it was also a delicious thrill to think about if the lifeguard or my mom was getting nervous.
This book was more like riding a water slide when you're supposedly too old and the parents you pass on the way up think they smell beer on...more

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Jun 26, 2008 Rachel Jones rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I am a big fan of Jack O'Connell, and I usually love his books. I liked this one, but didn't love it, probably because its emotional center is a father/son relationship. That said, I still think O'Connell has one of the best twisted imaginations out there right now.

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Apr 15, 2008 Jesse rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: fiction

It started out good and weird - and I'm a sucker for circus freaks. About 3/4 of the way through it got really trippy, and I was like "Circus freaks rule! Bikers rule!" And then the last page transformed every ounce of weirdness into saccharine treacle.

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Jul 21, 2010 Russ rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

If you are not equally intrigued by what seem like separate, unrelated plots in this story, you will not enjoy it and will probably not finish it. There is a lot of mystery surrounding Dr. Peck's methods of trying to revive comatose patients, and half of the novel takes place in a fantastic, dark, comic book parallel universe. Like any story with mystery and parallel worlds, it requires a suspension of disbelief. Read a straight-forward crime novel if that's a problem.

One problem I did have ear...more

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Jun 11, 2008 Karen rated it 1 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Rated R for language. Strange story. I couldn't get past the fact that a 6 year old was allowed to read a "comic book" that had such strange characters and language.

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Mar 26, 2009 James rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Interesting concept that features a comic book world that functions as a parallel universe to ours, and some people that can interact between the two worlds. I'm drastically oversimplifying, but you get the point.
My complaint with the book is the meandering way in which the story lopes along, remaining interesting, but not really drawing me in. The characters are, for the most part, well drawn, but still lack the depth to make me feel for them.
All in all this book feels like a good first draft...more

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May 29, 2008 Claire Vogel rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

it was ok. nothing too special. an interesting way to tell a story though. a mix of fanatsy/comic book fiction and real life.

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Mar 22, 2009 Todd rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: literature, consciousness-studies

What is consciousness and where does the mind reside? These are two of the questions this surreal novel poses to the reader. The ancient Greeks believed that the mind resided near the area of the stomach. There are a lot of obese people for whom that may be true. Naturally, they could be said to be living unconsciously. Personally, I think “mind”, whatever it is, resides somewhere lower because it has a tendency to slip down my pant leg and into my shoes.

If you like weird comic book worlds, psy...more

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May 14, 2013 Ken rated it 1 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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Dec 06, 2008 Jennifer rated it 1 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: sf-and-fantasy-and-horror

This is another book that I didn't finish. I chose this book because I found it on amazon's list of best SF/fantasy books of the year. The book is about a man whose six year old son is in a coma. The son was obsessed with this comic book series about a group of freaks. I only made it half way through the book, but the comic book characters are such a clear parallel to the life of the father and son that it seems too obvious where the story is going. The book reminded me a lot of Iain Banks' The...more

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Aug 11, 2009 Bob rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Holy Crap!!

I'm sorry that I forget who recommended this book to me, but, whoever did...Thank You!!

Now this is where I'm supposed to say: "This book is a combination of [Author A} & [Author B:]" but I won't.

This book is about forgiveness of yourself, comas, a comic written by the The Love Child of Warren Ellis & Alan Moore (Oh shit! I just mentioned an Author A & an Author B! Fuckin' sue me.).

I found myself waking up an hour or two before my alarm went off so I could read one more...more

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Nov 21, 2009 Jacob rated it 1 of 5 stars · review of another edition Recommends it for: Circus freaks who are worried they are not real?

I don't normally give books reviews this low, but this one demanded special derision. Horrible characters (were any of them real, oh, nevermind, I don't care), the use of journey as a plotline, even though no one went anywhere, attempts to draw weird parallels between real and imaginary characters, then saying both were real, but not really.

There is a special kind of frustration reserved for those who have suffered through this book to the bitter end. To my comrades, I salute you! To those cont...more

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Jun 28, 2011 David Watt rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

A really beautifully written book in the way that was not able to put it down read it in 1day.
But I also found the story really weak I feel there was a lot more could have been done with the characters. It is classed as a Gothic novel I was expecting something much more darker......
And also the last part of the book was very weak and there was not enough depth in the part if story,and I felt cheated.
But again John O'Connell writes wonderfully but the strength in the characters and story need th...more

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Jan 25, 2010 Lori rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: arc-reviewers-copy, fiction

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In The Resurrectionist, we meet Sweeney - our main character, if I were to pick ONE and label him as such. I see him as the wheel around which this novel turns. Sweeney's son Danny has been in a coma for over a year, and they have just relocated to The Clinic - where Dr. Peck has successfully aroused 2 comatose patients.

O'Connell withholds information from us - the reader - information we desire to know. Which, quite frankly, kept me glued to this book. There are subtle and shroude...more reviewers copy

In The Resurrectionist, we meet Sweeney - our main character, if I were to pick ONE and label him as such. I see him as the wheel around which this novel turns. Sweeney's son Danny has been in a coma for over a year, and they have just relocated to The Clinic - where Dr. Peck has successfully aroused 2 comatose patients.

O'Connell withholds information from us - the reader - information we desire to know. Which, quite frankly, kept me glued to this book. There are subtle and shrouded comments made about Danny's accident, yet it isn't clear to us what the actual accident was. We are informed that Danny's mother killed herself, unable to live with the guilt of Danny's condition, but we have no idea why she should have felt so guilty. And we learn that Sweeney can't be left alone with his thoughts, which can quickly plummett him into fits of rage, aggression, and depression.

As we chase after Sweeney, we are introduced to the comic book LIMBO and it's cast of circus freaks, which, according to all the paraphanlia that covers and litters Danny's room, has exploded into a preteen Amercian phenomenon. It's Danny's favorite thing in the whole world, and his father gets sucked into it for him, laying next to him in his hospital bed, reading the comics, hoping his son is listening.

Each issue of the LIMBO comic is designated its own separate chapter (strategically placed throughout the novel) in which we follow Chicken Boy, Aziz, Bruno, and a handful of other freaks through their trials and tribulations - which, strangely enough, seem to mirror those of Sweeney in the real world.

Parellels can be made between the group of misfit junkie bikers - all named after animals due to their personalities or physical resemblance to it - that Sweeney gets mixed up with, and the circus freaks from the LIMBO comics.

Even deeper than the loose connections between characters, O'Connell messes with the hearts of all parents by forcing you to look inward:
What would you do for your child?
How far would you be willing to go, what things would you put yourself and your child through, if you thought it meant they could be returned to you... pulled out of the limbo-land they are inhabiting, withdrawn from our world?
Or would you try to put yourself in their world?
At what point do you take the plunge?
Could you let go and make the leap if it meant trusting someone, or worse, not knowing?

I would think this goes without saying, but we do eventually discover what happened between Danny and his mother the day of his accident, we do get closure on the cast of circus freaks from the LIMBO comics... but will Sweeney and Danny get the closure they deserve? Read the book, my fellow followers. Read the book, and you tell me! (less)

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Oct 27, 2008 Beth rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: book-signing, simply-fantastic

Ha! I just found my own review on the TC Goodreads. I originally picked this up because I was lucky enough to work with Jack O'Connell, who is a sweetheart.

Really it's a pretty amazing book. A pharmacist and his comatose son move to a new town with a supposedly top notch facility for coma patients. The town is more than a bit peculiar and unwelcoming. The pharmacist takes a job at the clinic where his son resides to keep a close careful watch over him, and always reads to him his favorite comic...more

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Feb 25, 2009 Brendan rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: 2008, fiction, fantasy

The Resurrectionist oscillates unexpectedly, keeping its reader off balance. Among the stories told are those of Sweeney, a pharmacist whose son is in a long-term coma, a group of freaks at the center of a wildly popular comic book empire, a doctor bent on performing bleeding edge experiments on the patients in his care, and a psychotic group of bikers who're half Hell's Angels, half support group.

O'Connell writes in a crisp voice, with great pacing and descriptions. Especially evocative are th...more

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Part classic noir thriller, part mind-bending fantasy, The Resurrectionist is a wild ride into a territory where nothing is as it appears. It is the story of Sweeney, a druggist by trade, and his son, Danny, the victim of an accident that has left him in a persistent coma. Hoping for a miracle, they have come to the fortress-like Peck Clinic, whose doctors claim to have resurrected two patients wh...more

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