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Story Of My Life
Nov. 16th, 2013 11:16 amSo I'm reading 'Nos4A2,' by Joe Hill, and it's pretty amazing. It's the second book I've read by him, and I love his writing style and I love his grasp of horror and I love how he twists his stories in directions you wouldn't expect without making it feel like bait-and-switch.
But it took until I was about 250 pages into the current book for me to realize that there might be other reasons I like this story in particular.
Because... well, it's about a kinda petite woman with a history of trouble and abuse in her past that has left her with some mental scars, who has a bunch of tattoos and a motorcycle, and who very much loves a kinda big heavy-set bearded guy who has a deep and unabashed fondness for comic books, SF movies, and playing the hero.
Oh - and it's set around Boston.
Admittedly, I don't have a kid,![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
umbran isn't a high-school dropout, and I'm mostly certain I've never been targeted by an immortal serial killer with a Christmas fetish. But still. It's close enough to be both creepy and awesome....
But it took until I was about 250 pages into the current book for me to realize that there might be other reasons I like this story in particular.
Because... well, it's about a kinda petite woman with a history of trouble and abuse in her past that has left her with some mental scars, who has a bunch of tattoos and a motorcycle, and who very much loves a kinda big heavy-set bearded guy who has a deep and unabashed fondness for comic books, SF movies, and playing the hero.
Oh - and it's set around Boston.
Admittedly, I don't have a kid,
umbran isn't a high-school dropout, and I'm mostly certain I've never been targeted by an immortal serial killer with a Christmas fetish. But still. It's close enough to be both creepy and awesome....
