by John Darnielle
I've waited a couple days to write this review because this book puzzled me, and I wondered if it was the author's fault or mine. It's silly to assign blame when one doesn't like a book; I suppose this one just wasn't for me, and I wish every book was. On the surface, and based on the sample, this...
Sean Phillips has lived an isolated life due to his disfigurement from a teenage injury. To make a living he runs a game through the mail. When his game has real life consequences Sean is called on to account for it, this leads him to a retrospective state where we go back through his life to the p...
John Darnielle has a very distinctive prose style: long, lyrical sentences that weave paragraphs that gain weight as much from the complex route they travel as from the content they convey. He narrates the audiobook version of "Wolf In White Van" and brings to the text a calm, almost uninflected, ...
(Description nicked from B&N.com.) “Welcome to Trace Italian, a game of strategy and survival! You may now make your first move. Isolated by a disfiguring injury since the age of seventeen, Sean Phillips crafts imaginary worlds for strangers to play in. From his small apartment in southern Califor...
This book is a more philosophical and less comical Ready Player One. It has everything you'd expect from Darnielle - parent trouble in particular. The real genius lies in the overlays between the game the main character creates after trying to shoot himself and his psychological quirks, his guilt, a...
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