Anemone of the State Wrote:Black Wind is a brilliant novel. It truly deserves the adjective "epic" when describing it. I have a bit of a soft spot for it as I am originally a California native and have lived in Hiroshima & Tokyo, while having visited Kyoto and now currently live on Oahu.
Black Wind takes place on all of those locales while incorporating the best alternate history of WW2 I've ever come across. It also has that twisted and beautifully obscene (oxymoronic as it sounds) deranged "otherness" creep in just so perfectly that any fan of The Man's writing will have that home sweet home feeling while reading.
The understanding of Japanese culture that The Man reached while writing this book is impressive, and I say this as someone who has spent 1/2 of his life in Japan... including most of my youth.
The bottom line to this post is, buy and read Black Wind.
Anemone of the State Wrote:Black Wind is a brilliant novel. It truly deserves the adjective "epic" when describing it. I have a bit of a soft spot for it as I am originally a California native and have lived in Hiroshima & Tokyo, while having visited Kyoto and now currently live on Oahu.
Black Wind takes place on all of those locales while incorporating the best alternate history of WW2 I've ever come across. It also has that twisted and beautifully obscene (oxymoronic as it sounds) deranged "otherness" creep in just so perfectly that any fan of The Man's writing will have that home sweet home feeling while reading.
The understanding of Japanese culture that The Man reached while writing this book is impressive, and I say this as someone who has spent 1/2 of his life in Japan... including most of my youth.
The bottom line to this post is, buy and read Black Wind.
nonquixote Wrote:I'm all caught up on the Jack novels, and had vowed to wait until the rereleases to read Reprisal and Nightworld. But I just finished reading the trade paperbacks of Reborn and The Touch, and can't stand the wait, so I caved in and ordered older copies of Reprisal and Nightworld off of Amazon. Now I'm pacing the floor awaiting their arrival. I feel so weak.
William Malmborg Wrote:I'm right there with you. I had actually read Reborn several years ago and never went any further into the series since I had so much other stuff to read by F. Paul Wilson. A few weeks ago, however, I read it again so I could write about it for my webpage and now am itching to see what happens next. I don't know if I can wait until December. Everyday this week I've gone onto Amazon and almost bought Reprisal, but somehow have managed to hold off -- mostly by buying other 'out of print' horror novels that I've always wanted to read as well -- but don't know how much longer that will work. I'm probably going to cave.