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Twittering From The Circus Of The Dead (2013)

by Joe Hill(Favorite Author)

3.71 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

006229346X (ISBN13: 9780062293466)

languge

English

genre

Horror

publisher

William Morrow

review 1: The good news is, you'll be finished in no time with this short story. The bad news is you'll be finished in no time because the story lacks substance. The device of a string of tweets is moderately interesting, but eventually only serves to create a choppy and distracting flow. Beyond the device, the characters were thin and the story very predictable in a way that did not lend to a cathartic journey. I'd expect to see something like this story turned in for a high school creative writing class.
review 2: This should not have worked. The concept is just silly, a goofy rework of the "story by journal" trope via Twitter. In the hands of a less skilled writer, it would have been clunky and ridiculous. But thankfully, it wasn't written by that guy. It was written ... moreby Joe Hill, an author who knows what he's about. So while it did not terrify me, it did create an escalating sense of unease, even as I said to myself, "This is ridiculous." less

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