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A review by anteus7
The Book of Accidents by Chuck Wendig
5.0
I've been reading a lot of...what genre is this?...weird fiction lately. I am always intrigued when books echo through each other after I read them. I just read a book called The Gone World and, thematically, there is so much to compare with this one. Cosmic horror of different kinds, dopplegangers (kind of), creeping unease, at one point the phrase 'the gone world' came out of one character's thoughts and my first thought was 'I just read that book...'.
All of this is coincidental and a result of my just having read the other book, of course. I just think that effect is neat. There should be a word for that. There probably is. Yup--the Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon, otherwise known as the frequency illusio or recency bias. So that's a thing, cool.
I enjoyed lots of things about this book. I liked the different points of view and how distinct they were. Wendig is (apparently) a maniac, and I need to read more of his stuff, and that comes through in his writing voice. The setting gets progressively loony as things begin to shake loose or fall apart and we become more aware of it.
Give it a read if you are in the mood for creeped-out confusion.
All of this is coincidental and a result of my just having read the other book, of course. I just think that effect is neat. There should be a word for that. There probably is. Yup--the Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon, otherwise known as the frequency illusio or recency bias. So that's a thing, cool.
I enjoyed lots of things about this book. I liked the different points of view and how distinct they were. Wendig is (apparently) a maniac, and I need to read more of his stuff, and that comes through in his writing voice. The setting gets progressively loony as things begin to shake loose or fall apart and we become more aware of it.
Give it a read if you are in the mood for creeped-out confusion.