Thanks to painsomnia, I have spent many darkened hours this week listening to this novel, expertly and deliciously read by Jake Weber. What an odd, previous gift to receive from physical pain. Deadly, sovereign, perfect Dario Argento's Suspiria screams and bright red birds, and astounding hin...
Marisha Pessl takes her time writing her books, which I applaud, because it takes me a long time to read her books. This one is quite different then her first book, which I thought was fantastic! It reads as a mystery, but you're not quite sure if the clues you are being given are accurate until t...
3 stars, but more like 2.5while i liked the multimedia interactive aspect of this book, for me it entirely failed to deliver and after i finished it i was left wondering, "so...what was all the fuss about??" i was under the impression that this book would be creepy, thrilling, dark, unnerving, myst...
Like Special Topics, Pessl's last foray, this builds gossamer layer by gossamer layer, a story that holds you in it's spell until the last page (spell is a hint). Most of the time held in its grip, though I can't say consistently, thus 4 instead of 5 starts. It is very dark and plays with the edges ...
Everybody has a Cordova story. Cult horror director Stanislas Cordova hasn't been seen in public since 1977. To his fans he is an engima. To journalist Scott McGrath he is the enemy. To Ashley he was a father.On a damp October night the body of young, beautiful Ashley Cordova is found in an abandone...
I had been looking forward to reading this book for quite a while, partly because I was intrigued by the format, with some of the story delivered via screenshots of webpages, journal entries, newspaper clippings, photographs, etc., plus the promise of the additional content accessible online at the ...
"It's easy to be yourself in the dark. Ever noticed that?" There is a point in this book when the main character, Scott McGrath, is at what appears to finally be the end of his investigation into Ashley Cordova's death where he says that he felt let down. Quite like Scott, when I finally reached th...
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