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Randolph "Dilda" Carter

A rant about books, horror, and the weird.  I sometimes take on my love/hate relationship with goodreads and Amazon.

Currently reading

Perchance to Dream: Selected Stories
Ray Bradbury, Charles Beaumont, William Shatner
Progress: 140/336 pages
Pavane
Keith Roberts

Terminally Ill

Terminal Island - Walter Greatshell

This is what happens when you are half way through your novel and you resort to hallucinogenics to finish it. What starts out as a pretty good creepy secret society - cult novel gets washed ashore by handing out too much mythos and too little plot. I don't particularly care if Greatshell took his ideas from existing mythology, Jung, or Joseph Campbell and neither do we when subjected to chapter after chapter of detailed pointless cult ritual.

When Henry literally finds out he's The Man, we don't care except to ask what happened to Greatshell's nifty little idea about identity stealing cultists on Catalina Island. When we finally get the twist we will wonder whether this was meant as self-parody or a practical joke that went on too long.

On top of it all the setting left my believability button unpressed.