A Leatherclad Clown They Call the Sandman
Did you like Brimstone? Did you like Unknown Armies? The novel Godwalker? The comic book Lucifer? Immortal the RPG? Delta Green?
If you didn’t say yes to at least one of those, you’re excused. Go skip ahead to something else in your flist or your feed reader.
Still here? Then you’ll like Sandman Slim. It’s a novel which could have been told as a story in any of those settings but wasn’t, because it was told by Richard Kadrey. It’s a revenge story, it’s a modern era magic story, it’s a buddy story, it’s a story about a lucky loser who more or less emerges triumphant from his character arc. It’s really good. But I don’t know how much appeal it’ll have to someone who isn’t already into that gritty street magic paranormal anti-romance groove when this book hits their eyes.
For those of you would like this, go read it. It’s a fast moving story with very few aggravations. If you’re not one of the people who would like this, you suck. What are you doing still reading this, anyway? I told you to beat it!
January 21st, 2011 at 9:44 am
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