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inulro19. Coldheart Canyon by Clive Barker
Subtitle:"A Hollywood Ghost Story". In which Barker gives the dark side of Hollywood its own mythos. A Hollywood A-lister has plastic surgery that goes wrong, needs a place to hide from the media, and ends up in one of the 1920s "dream palaces" which is mostly forgotten, in a canyon just off Sunset that escapes everyone's notice. The original inhabitant is still there, along with many of the dead of Hollywood and other things that don't bear thinking about.
It's hard to do this justice - I think this is my favourite of all his books (even better, maybe, than Weaveworld, which is saying something).
It's really long but took me next to no time to read because I couldn't put it down. Absolutely recommended.
20. Ghost by Robert Harris
I've only read one of Harris's books before, Archangel, which is very good for what it is. I've caught parts of his other books read or dramatised on BBC radio and have been pretty impressed. We saw the trailer for the film of Ghost recently and the book was there when I was killing some time in the library recently. I figured once the film's out it will be harder to get hold of so I grabbed it.
The story of a ghost writer who stumbles onto a nasty secret in the life of the ex-British-Prime-Minister whose autobiography he is shaping (who is Not Tony Blair, Honest), this is pretty disappointing. Even the twist at the end doesn't really redeem it. It's an enjoyable enough ride, and a book I was glad to have around the last couple days - yesterday, I was too ill to sit up for more than 20 minutes so couldn't even watch TV.
In other words, go read Archangel, not this.
Subtitle:"A Hollywood Ghost Story". In which Barker gives the dark side of Hollywood its own mythos. A Hollywood A-lister has plastic surgery that goes wrong, needs a place to hide from the media, and ends up in one of the 1920s "dream palaces" which is mostly forgotten, in a canyon just off Sunset that escapes everyone's notice. The original inhabitant is still there, along with many of the dead of Hollywood and other things that don't bear thinking about.
It's hard to do this justice - I think this is my favourite of all his books (even better, maybe, than Weaveworld, which is saying something).
It's really long but took me next to no time to read because I couldn't put it down. Absolutely recommended.
20. Ghost by Robert Harris
I've only read one of Harris's books before, Archangel, which is very good for what it is. I've caught parts of his other books read or dramatised on BBC radio and have been pretty impressed. We saw the trailer for the film of Ghost recently and the book was there when I was killing some time in the library recently. I figured once the film's out it will be harder to get hold of so I grabbed it.
The story of a ghost writer who stumbles onto a nasty secret in the life of the ex-British-Prime-Minister whose autobiography he is shaping (who is Not Tony Blair, Honest), this is pretty disappointing. Even the twist at the end doesn't really redeem it. It's an enjoyable enough ride, and a book I was glad to have around the last couple days - yesterday, I was too ill to sit up for more than 20 minutes so couldn't even watch TV.
In other words, go read Archangel, not this.
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Date: 2010-03-30 04:56 pm (UTC)I preferred Imajica.
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Date: 2010-03-30 06:14 pm (UTC)I really should.