Book Details
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Wolf in White Van |
| Author: |
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John Darnielle |
| Times Read: |
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1 |
| Last Read: |
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11.29.14 |
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Notes History
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| 11.29.14 | I picked this up after hearing several recommendations. It seems like every so often Life colludes to get me to do something and I figured hearing about this on Idle Thumbs and from two of my friends currently playing my own e-mail RPG was enough to warrant reading it. It's mostly about the psyche of a disturbed man but what that disturbed man does for a living is conduct a RPG via mail (which would explain why my players would bring it up). I liked that stuff a lot because it lent a different approach to how I'm currently doing things, and some of the teenaged memories hit really close to home in terms of how I was feeling in those awkward years and how sometimes you do things without having a reason and how the things you are into take on obsessive qualities because you are struggling for your own identity... but for me the prose was a bit too "literary" (meaning unclear) and I feel like the version of this story that Danielle chose to tell ended up having to stretch to make 200 pages which is a shame because if he went somewhere else with it (say this was the first half of a larger book) and involved a tiny bit more plot then I would've engaged with it a bit more. Oh well. I can't say it's a bad book by any means, just a little too obtuse for me. |
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