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This was really quite good, far better than the first book. I thoroughly enjoyed it.
Pros: interesting setting, fascinating story, complex depictions of and around black and gay charactersCons: not particularly scaryJason Thorn (aka Thistledown) flew planes over the trenches in WWI. After some bad times, he’s landed a job flying post in Africa. But the flight there is diverted to Bavaria, Germany, where an experiment has gone wrong. An experiment with a creature Jason has faced - and survived - in the past.This is a direct continuation of Eutopia: A Novel of Terrible Optimism, p...
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NOW AVAILABLE!and on the table and if you look closely, you can see that greg's fox table is still alive and kicking. FOXEN! ”When was the last time you saw Molinare’s ghost?” asked Andrew. Dominic set the cup down before Andrew.“Just now,” he said. “Just a moment ago. He was at the bar, over there.” Dominic pointed to the far end of the bar, toward the Liberty’s street entrance. “He warned me, as he often does.”“What did he warn you of?”“Calamity,” said Dominic. “Always calamity.”if you r...
It's usually a bad sign when Joseph Goebbels enters a narrative, but in this case I felt it was quite all right. The setting and historical context are so well established in "Volk" that this pinched little fellow's brief appearance doesn't seem out of place. His Nazi colleagues have been busy little bees, establishing nudist übermenschen colonies in Bavaria and having fun with eugenics. And because Nazis can't help themselves, they've also been meddling with those Jukes from "Eutopia". The Wagg...
David Nickle writes complex, intelligent books about intelligent people. They aren't always good people, some of them are monsters. This isn't light reading. The story is complex and the characters are many leveled and sometimes confounding. It is a book that will resonate with our current state of affairs in the United States. It is a horror story. It might also be seen as a kind of an offhand comment from Canada that we had best mind our Ps and Qs and reread our history books. For those who li...
Volk: A Novel of Radiant Abomination should have been called Volk: A novel of Radiant Boredom. I rarely DNF a book. If feel if I am stupid enough to pick up a book, then I share some responsibility to finish it. This book has caused me to shirk my responsibility. Now to be fair, this a sequel to some other novel and there might have been more interest had I been more involved with the story (bear in mind the book nowhere really states that it is a sequel). This time the events occur in early 193...
Volk is a follow up to one of my favorite novels Eutopia by David Nickle. Eutopia captivated me with its great set of characters and its insightful weaving of racism in early 20th century America. Also, The Juke is one of the most interesting and creepy monsters I have read about in a horror/weird fiction novel, and I have read my fair share. It is a huge genetic freak that mesmerizes its victims into thinking it is God and should be worshipped. There is a new mutant introduced in this book, by
Well written and carefully crafted--which is why I gave four stars. However this story is deeply disturbing with how closely the yucky parts parallel known religions, and it gets pretty yucky. Totally messed with my head. I'm not sure if I liked it, no matter how well it was written. Definitely "good" horror.
Excellent and I'm usually the last one to want more explained in a text but I hope there are further books that reveal what exactly was going on with a certain Juke slaying hero.Very good cerebral horror. Do read Eutopia first but do it looking forward to this novel which is better.
Sequel to his previous EUTOPIA - but you don't need to have read that first to get into this, though you will want to search it out after finishing it. Fucking amazing!
Well hot damn, this was a mighty fine read. The first Juke novel Eutopia had a certain level of, I'm not sure of the right word, zaniness or absurdity for lack of anything more appropriate, permeating throughout and it lent it a somewhat fantastical feel. It was weird fiction that reveled in its weirdness. This one, to me at least, was a little more serious, a little somber if you will. Gone are the redneck wannabe klansmen Nazis only to be replaced with actual card carrying Nazis and everything...
