Friday, March 30, 2018

Slade House by David Mitchell


read by Thomas Judd and Tania Rodrigues



Brrrrrr! I Won’t say that I don’t read horror--but I am very choosy about what horror I read. As a tremendous fan of Cloud Atlas, though, I had to give this book a try--in spite of some trepidation after having found The Bone Clocks unreadable.

Yes, it’s a haunted house story--closer to a classic one than I expected from this author. Yes, the structure of the story is recursive, and will reward the reader who pays close attention (and will bore the reader who doesn’t)--a bit like Cloud Atlas in that respect, though Mitchell has become an even better writer since then and doesn’t, this time, tempt you to skip entire chapters. (Much. You definitely won’t retroactively wish you had, in any case.) And yes, it’s deliciously creepy.


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