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Angel's Inferno by William Hjortsberg

You're going to burn for this, Angel... I'm a fan of William Hjortsberg , as you might be able to tell (and yes, I've come out of my self-imposed exile to bash this review out because I have no beer and someone else is on the Playstation. Of course I mean I am taking a well-earned break from my deep, inner work), and as such, I don't want to believe the shit-talking that's been going on around this novel, published some 40 years since his first to feature Harry Angel, the tough, ex-military private eye on a tragic trajectory with His Satanic Majesty. However, I've read it, and to their credit (and the book's detriment) for the most part the criticisms are valid, to wit: The plot is barmy - I won't be going into lengthy spoilers but rest assured if you want a spoiler you can find plenty of them over at BoardGameGeek . Caveat emptor. Harry Angel / Johnny Favorite undergoes an unintelligible schism in terms of personality, suddenly and without warning. Some...

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Absolution: A Southern Reach Novel by Jeff VanderMeer

Slumberland by Paul Beatty

The Collector Collector by Tibor Fischer

The Whitewash by Siang Lu

The Minotaur Takes His Own Sweet Time by Steven Sherrill

I, Lucifer by Glen Duncan

The Book Of Elsewhere by Keanu Reeves and China Miéville

Evenfall: The Golden Linnet by Alexander Armstrong

Toward Eternity by Anton Hur

Killing Thatcher by Rory Carroll

Ghost Mountain by Rónán Hession

In memoriam - Ismail Kadare

The Artist's Way by Julia Cameron

The Ball Is Round: A Global History Of Football by David Goldblatt

Telephone by Percival Everett

Elis and John Present the Holy Vible: The Book The Bible Could Have Been by Elis James and John Robins

Loose Head by Joe Marler

Ocean's Echo by Everina Maxwell

Severance by Ling Ma

The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu

I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman

The Yips by Nicola Barker

James by Percival Everett

Winter's Orbit by Everina Maxwell

The Delivery by Margarita Garcia Robayo

Some Desperate Glory by Emily Tesh

We Have Always Lived In The Castle by Shirley Jackson

The Sellout by Paul Beatty

The Factory by Hiroko Oyamada

The Cartoonist by Richard Beard

Low Life by Jeffrey Bernard

Mumbo Jumbo by Ishmael Reed

Glyph by Percival Everett

Weasels In The Attic by Hiroko Oyamada

When Lions Roared: The Lions, The All Blacks, And The Legendary Tour Of 1971, by Tom English and Peter Burns

The Book Of Paradise by Itzik Manger

A Dead Man In Deptford by Anthony Burgess

Dr. No by Percival Everett

Love Murder by Saul Black

A Dictator Calls by Ismail Kadare

Woodcutters by Thomas Bernhard

Mona Lisa Overdrive by William Gibson

King Rat by China Miéville

Barcelona Shadows by Marc Pastor

The Android Mirror by Christopher Hall

Little Hands Clapping by Dan Rhodes

From The Fatherland, With Love by Ryu Murakami