paulopaperbooksonly's review
3.0
After reading the Dead Sea novel I thought about reading this short stories collection which turn out not being a short story collection but two novelas, one of which with 160 pages.
First of all, if you enjoy the novel you will probably enjoy the second. And I say probably because I didn't enjoy as much. I thought it was a rewashed of the same scenes, imagens and situations.
The first we follow a group of people who have just crash into the ocean. There's weed (we've seen this ween in the novel) and all people are trying to forget. You got the rich pretentious guy, the suck boss guy, the stupid girl and the normal one and one other guy I don't even notice he had characteristic except he knew how to fly planes.
The second one is bigger but it similar with the novel but delas with different stuff. The fog is there, they are in a boat, there's a strange boat where time moves differently. Regarding the ending was better than the novel,
Overall, I didn't enjoy it, but maybe because I read one and after the other. So there's that. If you are new to Tim Curran don't start here. Dead Sea if you want a cthulhuesque kind of novel, Blackout if you want a novella length. The Devil next door if you want a really nasty splatter full of violent things or Biohazard if you wanta post apocalpythic zombie novel full of images that will make you throw up. Yeah Start there.
First of all, if you enjoy the novel you will probably enjoy the second. And I say probably because I didn't enjoy as much. I thought it was a rewashed of the same scenes, imagens and situations.
The first we follow a group of people who have just crash into the ocean. There's weed (we've seen this ween in the novel) and all people are trying to forget. You got the rich pretentious guy, the suck boss guy, the stupid girl and the normal one and one other guy I don't even notice he had characteristic except he knew how to fly planes.
The second one is bigger but it similar with the novel but delas with different stuff. The fog is there, they are in a boat, there's a strange boat where time moves differently. Regarding the ending was better than the novel,
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because it ended badly.Overall, I didn't enjoy it, but maybe because I read one and after the other. So there's that. If you are new to Tim Curran don't start here. Dead Sea if you want a cthulhuesque kind of novel, Blackout if you want a novella length. The Devil next door if you want a really nasty splatter full of violent things or Biohazard if you wanta post apocalpythic zombie novel full of images that will make you throw up. Yeah Start there.
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