The premise of Matt Bell's latest novel, Scrapper, is fantastic. This psychological tale of post-fall Detroit centers around a scavenger who guts homes and businesses for scrap metal. In the book's opening chapters, the scavenger, Kelly, finds a boy who has been kidnapped. The rest of the novel focu...
I have to say this book works better if you blank your mind and read the book as free verses instead of in paragraphs and let your imagination run riot.It is creepy, sad but ultimately moving.Reminds me of Salman Rusdie's early magic realism works.
Back when watching a monster movie on a Sunday afternoon after the homework was done was an achievable luxury (so YEARS ago), I came across Prophecy, a gem from 1979. Here is some classy monster movie poster art: So a scientist hired by the EPA goes out to the Androscoggin River in Maine to figure ...
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