bugpowderdust

up the river looking for Kurtz

bugpowderdust header image 4

Entries Tagged as 'books'

Handling The Undead, by John Ajvide Lindqvist

October 25th, 2009 · No Comments · Uncategorized

Lindqvist received a lot of attention earlier this year for the film Let The Right One In, for which he contributed the script from his original novel. That was an unusual vampire story, as much about an unlikely friendship between two outsiders as it was biting necks. In Handling The Undead he twists another horror [...]

[Read more →]

Tags:

The Resurrectionist, by Jack O’Connell

August 9th, 2009 · No Comments · books

This is the first book I’ve read by Jack O’Connell. It won’t be the last.
It’s the story of Sweeney, a pharmacist by trade, and his son Danny. Danny is in a coma following an accident, and Sweeney has taken a job at the Peck Clinic, an unusual forbidding institution that offers the hope of [...]

[Read more →]

Tags: