Inside a Dog http://booklikes.com/photo/crop/50/50/upload/avatar/c/1/c1287e86880a2716a4b7e7d1a85ce23d.jpg JKS http://JKS.booklikes.com 2018-02-19T10:16:12+00:00 http://JKS.booklikes.com/rss review: Red Handed: The Fine Art of Strange Crimes 2015-04-05T00:00:00+01:00 2015-04-05T00:00:00+01:00 http://JKS.booklikes.com/post/1141278/red-handed-the-fine-art-of-strange-crimes JKS http://JKS.booklikes.com review: MIND MGMT Vol. 2: The Futurist 2015-03-29T00:00:00+00:00 2015-03-29T00:00:00+00:00 http://JKS.booklikes.com/post/1141279/mind-mgmt-vol-2-the-futurist JKS http://JKS.booklikes.com
As an interesting side note, I was at the library today looking to see if they had the third volume. When they didn't, I started flipping through other books of his. Most I'd already read, but the style of the illustrations in Revolver seemed so similar to the Mind MGMT books (his style in some other titles is a bit different, black and white pen illustrations as opposed to these water color panels) that I looked a little closer at it. As I was flipping through the pages, a name leapt out at me. P.K. Verve. I blinked, flipped back through the pages trying to find it.

Along the edges of the pages in volume 2 of Mind MGMT are excerpts from a book one of the characters, Meru, wrote, a true crime account. P.K. Verve is someone from that true crime book. I brought Revolver home with me to re-read, thinking I might have misread something I saw because I couldn't find the name when flipping back through the pages. (It's all over the book, but I was flipping quickly and not reading with great attention.)

Later at home, as I was close to the end of this volume, one of the page-edge notes mentioned P.K. Verve and the rest of the note was crossed out. Most of the words could be guessed at based on the halves of the letters that stuck out, and I could read in it that P.K. Verve had been met by someone in an alternate timeline -- the plot of Revolver is all about alterate timelines.

Kindt, you sneaky devil. ]]>
review: MIND MGMT, Volume 1 2015-03-28T00:00:00+00:00 2015-03-28T00:00:00+00:00 http://JKS.booklikes.com/post/1141280/mind-mgmt-volume-1 JKS http://JKS.booklikes.com
If you like conspiracy theories, cloak and dagger, and moral ambiguity, are you in for a treat when you find this series. ]]>
review: 1Q84 2015-03-06T00:00:00+00:00 2015-03-06T00:00:00+00:00 http://JKS.booklikes.com/post/1141281/1q84 JKS http://JKS.booklikes.com
There was a moment where I started to flag in my concern for the two leads, as the action seemed to be in a holding pattern. It seems the author sensed this too, as a third narrative perspective started, and the book regained its early energy. But the end fell kind of flat for me. I don't want to give any spoilers but it all closed much sooner than it seemed the storyline required (at least as far as I was anticipating). ]]>
review: Flashback 2015-01-26T00:00:00+00:00 2015-01-26T00:00:00+00:00 http://JKS.booklikes.com/post/1141282/flashback JKS http://JKS.booklikes.com
La Raza? Requonquistas? Are you serious?
The New Caliphate? Are you for fucking real?
The collapse of green energy after all the scientists in the world admit climate change was a big fraud to bilk those fat research grants? Are you insane?
An economic collapse of the United States due to"entitlement" programs (that actually circulate money in the economy) rather than through tax breaks to the ultra-wealthy (which takes money out of economic circulation)? What are you smoking?

Simmons tried to say this book is not a reflection of his politics. Riiiiiight.

One of these bits above could be a riff for a dystopia, but all of them taken together are just such a consistent mass of middle aged conservative Fox News hyperventilation that it's hard to see this book as anything but a panty wetting cry of fear.

I'm finishing it instead of chucking it aside because Simmons still can put together a scene decently and because I always have to know whodunit but this book has seriously put me of the author permanently. ]]>
review: Hardcase 2015-01-11T00:00:00+00:00 2015-01-11T00:00:00+00:00 http://JKS.booklikes.com/post/1141283/hardcase JKS http://JKS.booklikes.com review: Home Land 2014-10-20T00:00:00+01:00 2014-10-20T00:00:00+01:00 http://JKS.booklikes.com/post/1141286/home-land JKS http://JKS.booklikes.com review: Gone Girl 2014-10-19T00:00:00+01:00 2014-10-19T00:00:00+01:00 http://JKS.booklikes.com/post/1141284/gone-girl JKS http://JKS.booklikes.com
Update:

Enjoyed every minute of this even enjoyed how angry the ending made me so I'd call it a good read, GoodReaders. ]]>
review: Zone One: A Novel 2014-10-03T00:00:00+01:00 2014-10-03T00:00:00+01:00 http://JKS.booklikes.com/post/1141285/zone-one-a-novel JKS http://JKS.booklikes.com
This is a great book and zombies are really only a small fraction of what the book ends up being about. It is more about modern society and what we would do without it and coping strategies and the psychology of minimizing consequences and emotionally not reacting.

With various social media quizzes like "how long would you survive a zombie apocalypse?" people tend to think they would be very good at surviving in an end of the world scenario, but I think people frequently misunderstand what skills and what kind of a mindset they would need to be able to deal with the end of the world. The protagonist of this novel, the long surviving Mark Spitz, has the skills that are necessary which are not Rambo-like in any way.

An interior novel for long stretches, Zone One tends to double back on itself and in the midst of shooting a pack of zombies in the head, the author will have the protagonist revisit some memories, think back through various scenarios pre-and post apocalypse that are related to what is currently taking place.

This kind of narrative boxing up of incidents is a mirror to what is most likely one of the most necessary survival techniques/strategies in a post-apocalyptic world: mental compartmentalization.

Recommended, even if, like me, you are not a big fan of zombies. ]]>
review: The Haunting of Hill House 2014-09-28T00:00:00+01:00 2014-09-28T00:00:00+01:00 http://JKS.booklikes.com/post/1141287/the-haunting-of-hill-house JKS http://JKS.booklikes.com
Four unpleasant people go to a haunted house and not much happens and then two more even more unpleasant visitors arrive, so no one in the book is terribly sympathetic. ]]>
review: The Casual Vacancy 2014-09-05T00:00:00+01:00 2014-09-05T00:00:00+01:00 http://JKS.booklikes.com/post/1141288/the-casual-vacancy JKS http://JKS.booklikes.com review: Bring Up the Bodies 2014-08-24T00:00:00+01:00 2014-08-24T00:00:00+01:00 http://JKS.booklikes.com/post/1141289/bring-up-the-bodies JKS http://JKS.booklikes.com review: Madness, Rack, and Honey: Collected Lectures 2014-01-31T00:00:00+00:00 2014-01-31T00:00:00+00:00 http://JKS.booklikes.com/post/1141290/madness-rack-and-honey-collected-lectures JKS http://JKS.booklikes.com review: The Pale King 2012-08-15T00:00:00+01:00 2012-08-15T00:00:00+01:00 http://JKS.booklikes.com/post/1141291/the-pale-king JKS http://JKS.booklikes.com
My vacation book, my beach book, because the work part of life is a much harder time to read challenging fiction, I think. ]]>
review: Super Sad True Love Story 2012-07-25T00:00:00+01:00 2012-07-25T00:00:00+01:00 http://JKS.booklikes.com/post/1141293/super-sad-true-love-story JKS http://JKS.booklikes.com
Horrifying, really. ]]>
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