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Deeply Odd
“On the morning of Sunday April 16, two days before his fortieth birthday, Samuel P Bishop went to kill a man….”
Nick Blake has it success, wealth, fame. His last book, Come The Night, was a bestseller, and he’s currently flavour of the month. A media darling.
Sam Bishop, his main rival, is getting desperate. With his career stalled, he’s going nowhere. One night, he breaks into Blake’s house.
The author isn’t home, but Bishop finds his latest manuscript – a collection of stories titled Deeply Odd. As he begins to read, it isn’t long before the book starts living up to its title….
This book contains explicit content and is recommended for mature readers.
Nick Blake has it success, wealth, fame. His last book, Come The Night, was a bestseller, and he’s currently flavour of the month. A media darling.
Sam Bishop, his main rival, is getting desperate. With his career stalled, he’s going nowhere. One night, he breaks into Blake’s house.
The author isn’t home, but Bishop finds his latest manuscript – a collection of stories titled Deeply Odd. As he begins to read, it isn’t long before the book starts living up to its title….
This book contains explicit content and is recommended for mature readers.
96 pages, Kindle Edition
First published January 20, 2014
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Ian Watson
32 books1 followerLibrarian Note: There is more than one author by this name in the Goodreads database.
Also writes as Duane Bradley.
Also writes as Duane Bradley.
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March 28, 2022
I enjoyed this, although I thought Odd Thomas got off easy, and that was part of the point, as he did what he failed to do in the first book, Odd Thomas. This was a redemption of sorts. This books provides Odd Thomas with unusual and odd people helping him, all of them working against a greater conspiracy of good vs evil. This is an important part of the series, but I felt a little let down by the final showdown compared to his previous Odd Thomas novels
January 13, 2015
If you've read any of Ian Watson's movie review ebooks you will know that he isn't keen on remakes, so it is a little ironic that he has a habit of repackaging and reworking his own writing. Those of us who are keen to read all of it are prone to more than the occasional bout of the de jevus.
Here he has brought together four of his horror short stories (at least a couple available elsewhere) and added a wrap-around tale, just like in one of those Amicus horror movies, .e.g. Dr. Terror's House of HorrorsDr. Terror's House of Horrors.
Nymphomaniac Cop has been a work in progress for some time. He has released a number of elaborations on the central plot idea. I believe the version included here is about the third. It's the tasteless story of a crazed penis on the loose, full of homages to cult horror and exploitation movies and personalities. It's the most substantial story in the collection.
Snuff is a nostalgic trip back to the video store, where a psychopath is given a unique way to transcend death.
Father's Day is an enjoyably hardboiled one gag short.
Human Resources was one of his earliest short stories, one with a political bent.
The wrap-around story is a lark, giving the author a chance to poke a bit of fun at himself (get in before his critics perhaps). The stories are presented as the work of a best-selling author, Nick Blake. A rival author, seeing himself as a kind of Salieri to Blake's Mozart perhaps, breaks into his house and expresses contempt for the crassness of Blake and his writing as he waits to murder him.
It helps to be a fan of horror and exploitation movies when reading these stories, e.g. when we are introduced to soft-porn queen Musty Mindy, but even the uninitiated may find it appealingly appalling.
Here he has brought together four of his horror short stories (at least a couple available elsewhere) and added a wrap-around tale, just like in one of those Amicus horror movies, .e.g. Dr. Terror's House of HorrorsDr. Terror's House of Horrors.
Nymphomaniac Cop has been a work in progress for some time. He has released a number of elaborations on the central plot idea. I believe the version included here is about the third. It's the tasteless story of a crazed penis on the loose, full of homages to cult horror and exploitation movies and personalities. It's the most substantial story in the collection.
Snuff is a nostalgic trip back to the video store, where a psychopath is given a unique way to transcend death.
Father's Day is an enjoyably hardboiled one gag short.
Human Resources was one of his earliest short stories, one with a political bent.
The wrap-around story is a lark, giving the author a chance to poke a bit of fun at himself (get in before his critics perhaps). The stories are presented as the work of a best-selling author, Nick Blake. A rival author, seeing himself as a kind of Salieri to Blake's Mozart perhaps, breaks into his house and expresses contempt for the crassness of Blake and his writing as he waits to murder him.
It helps to be a fan of horror and exploitation movies when reading these stories, e.g. when we are introduced to soft-porn queen Musty Mindy, but even the uninitiated may find it appealingly appalling.
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