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Strange Weather; by Joe Hill
Topic Started: Nov 10 2017, 04:02 AM (46 Views)
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Four short novels from the author of THE FIREMAN and HORNS, ranging from creepy horror to powerful explorations of our society.One autumnal day in Boulder, Colorado, the clouds open up in a downpour of nails, splinters of bright crystal that tear apart anyone who isn't safely under cover. 'Rain' explores this escalating apocalyptic event, as clouds of nails spread out across the country and the world. Amidst the chaos, a girl studying law enforcement takes it upon herself to resolve a series of almost trivial mysteries . . . apparently harmless puzzles that turn out to have lethal answers.In 'Loaded' a mall security guard heroically stops a mass shooting and becomes a hero to the modern gun movement. Under the hot glare of the spotlights, though, his story begins to unravel, taking his sanity with it... 'Snapshot, 1988' tells the story of an kid in Silicon Valley who finds himself threatened by The Phoenician, a tattooed thug who possesses a Polaroid that can steal memories...And in 'Aloft' a young man takes to the skies to experience parachuting for the first time . . . and winds up a castaway on an impossibly solid cloud, a Prospero's island of roiling vapour that seems animated by a mind of its own.
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This seems really good. I'm especially excited for Nails and Loaded. Snapshot, 1988 has a familiar urban legend sound to it. Aloft is the one that doesn't sound great but it's at least interesting.
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The novellas aren't in the same order that they have them in the summary. I'm not sure why they did it that way. I think the summary's order might actually be better than the order in the book. The order in the book makes it seem like two of the stories are connected, but I don't think they are supposed to be.

"Snapshot, 1988" ended up being the best of the first three. It has a very Twilight Zone plot, but the characters are great. It extends beyond where The Twilight Zone would have ended the story to wrap things up with all of the characters, which was completely necessary. I was disappointed because I thought the story was about to end and very relieved when it had a few chapters to serve as a long epilogue. It also took a slightly more realistic approach by incorporating the different ways that we forget things to make the story a little more believable.

"Loaded" was ambitious. The characterization of the mall cop wasn't the best. There isn't anything wrong with the character, but his character type can be done better. It did do a very good job of bringing a lot of different plot threads together. The ending is ballsy. I don't really think that crime is Joe Hill's strong point.

"Aloft" had a good concept. I liked how the main character developed and how it dug into the character's flaws. It did seem a little padded. A lot of that is because the character gets distracted and skips investigating stuff that are things that he obviously should be looking into.
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"Rain" didn't end up beating out "Snapshot, 1988." I did still like it quite a bit. It's another one that had a really great cast of characters. The lead was especially great. I wasn't sure about him intending it to be a parody of himself, but I like that this was just a little silly and still completely worked as a story.

I would really like to see what it was like before the election. It was written with Clinton as the president, but it had to be rewritten. I think this version is probably the more entertaining one, but I'd still liked to read the other one.
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