The Croning--Laird Barron

[sleepybutawake]

Anybody staying up late this weekend with liquor and Barron. Or Barron without the liquor?

Surely some of you are just staying up late with just liquor...

[DJ Persposki]

Sadly, I've had to cut back on drinking as I'm poor.

[Sam]

I finished it last night. Beer instead of liquor, though. My copy came a few weeks ago, but work and a desire to make it last kept me from plowing through the whole thing at once. I will undoubtedly re-read it at some point, along with the directly related short stories, in a much smaller timeframe.

And yes, it is absolutely spectacular.

[tonalized]

Just got my copy yesterday. I'll be back after I finish it with a review. CHG

[Michael]

Got mine in yesterday as well. I am psyched about this book. Gonna be a great weekend.

[waffles]

Mine arrived today. I'm saving it for a long bus trip.

[DoktorH]

waiting for and looking forward to the Nook edition

[luciferfell]

Just bought mine along with Rickheit's Folly and Llewellyn's Engines of desire.

[tonalized]

So I'm 100 pgs in and (admittedly) after only having read Barron's short stories, I'm not used to the amount of character development and build-up. But having read many lesser horror writers I think I can safely say that this qualifies as literature. Can't wait for the payoff! CHG

[Michael]

I too was wondering how he would handle the character development and pacing with his first novel but having read his long work "The Light is the Darkness" he crafted that quite adeptly and although I'm only 70 pages in at this point he is rocking the s#*t out of this book.