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« Reply #15 on: June 30, 2012, 04:10:14 PM » |
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Sorry to resurrect an old thread, but recently I placed an order for one of Barron's new novels, The Light is the Darkness. Anyone on the forums read it? I haven't found any solid reviews but the description pulled me in and I had to purchase it. I've only read his short stories so it will be interesting to see if he can keep this ADHDer interested in one of his novels.
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'Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing.'
Robert E. Howard, "The Tower of the Elephant"
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« Reply #16 on: July 01, 2012, 10:43:21 AM » |
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I just read Barron's The Croning. It's hard to make weird fiction go full novel length, but I liked how he did it.
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« Reply #17 on: July 01, 2012, 12:52:53 PM » |
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I noted archive.org has some sort of compleate collectione.
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« Reply #18 on: July 01, 2012, 01:10:33 PM » |
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Just bought Imago as an ebook - reading the opening stories and have to say I am quite impressed, both in style and content some excellent stuff.
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« Reply #19 on: July 01, 2012, 04:22:34 PM » |
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Hey guys. Long time no see! So I have finished reading the Croning and I loved it. SInce posting this thread I have become an even bigger fan, aa fanatic really. I love the children of 'ol leech and the symbol, I love Barron!
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« Reply #20 on: July 01, 2012, 11:56:17 PM » |
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I saw The Croning but it didn't really interest me, plus I ended up getting the Wool Omnibus by Hugh Howey instead, since I had already bought The Light is the Darkness.
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'Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing.'
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« Reply #21 on: July 04, 2012, 08:26:23 AM » |
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Finished Imago and I'm definitely going to hunt down the rest of his work now.
I've read one too many Lovecraft inspired writers who simply throw *Cthulhu into a trad-horror setting as if its the Wolfman. Barron seems to have a far better grip than most on the idea of weirdness and psychological horror. I'd even argue some of the stories in the Imago collection are far more weird than horror. Proboscis in particular. As such I can understand where the criticism he gets comes from but damn he's the first new writer to genuinely chill me in quite some time! Good work sir!
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« Reply #22 on: July 04, 2012, 02:46:16 PM » |
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Finished Imago and I'm definitely going to hunt down the rest of his work now.
I've read one too many Lovecraft inspired writers who simply throw *Cthulhu into a trad-horror setting as if its the Wolfman. Barron seems to have a far better grip than most on the idea of weirdness and psychological horror. I'd even argue some of the stories in the Imago collection are far more weird than horror. Proboscis in particular. As such I can understand where the criticism he gets comes from but damn he's the first new writer to genuinely chill me in quite some time! Good work sir!
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« Reply #23 on: July 04, 2012, 06:04:01 PM » |
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I'm really looking forward to The Croning.
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« Reply #24 on: July 27, 2012, 12:22:26 PM » |
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Laird is definitely someone you should avoid if you want a simple ending. The Procession of the Black Sloth was a trips
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« Reply #25 on: July 27, 2012, 12:39:02 PM » |
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Laird is definitely someone you should avoid if you want a simple ending. The Procession of the Black Sloth was a trips
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« Reply #26 on: July 30, 2012, 09:26:40 AM » |
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Great stories. I just really love his imagination. I do, however, wish he was a bit more mature with the mechanics of his writing - a lot of it reads like teenage stream of consciousness prose and I think that's part of the reason it's easy to get lost in his stuff. It's also part of the reason I don't enjoy it more. One thing about HPL and his circle (as well as guys like Gaiman) - they work at being WRITERS, not just at creating cool story ideas.
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« Reply #27 on: January 14, 2013, 02:25:29 PM » |
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Finally finishing Imago short stories and Imago itself. Holy crap this is good stuff.
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« Reply #28 on: January 28, 2013, 07:33:58 PM » |
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Having just read "The Hand of Glory", by him, and The Croning (already mentioned a couple of times in this thread) last year, his writing feels like it is transition. While I really liked The Croning, and mostly liked "The Hand of Glory" (while disliking another recent short story involving The Wild Hunt, the title of which escapes me), I think the surer critiques of him will come after the transition is done (for better or worse). His writings are losing a bit of their youthful exuberance, grounding themselves more in physical/social frictions, playing with different flavors of darkness, and dealing with characters a bit more fuller. Maybe becoming a bit too self-referential at times, but its good to see him prod the edges. While it is kind of crazy that he is about to have a third collection of stories, already, and has released a novel and a long novella in the past year and a half (or so), maybe the success will give him time to slow down a tad, revisit old themes with a steadier hand, and to flesh out his mythos.
The more I think of it with hindsight, the more I would love to see him return to themes of stories like "Parallels", that are more heavily based in the impact of the weird on relationships, etc. The Croning dealt with it nicely, so maybe he will.
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