The Stranger Times
As a pull quote?
“We aren’t reporting the story as fact; we’re reporting the existence of the story as fact.” Page 75.
Explains a lot.
The Stranger Times
There’s a quixotic absurdist humor. Dry in wit? No, wit: both wet and dry.
Trying to get a handle on this, the recommendation, the book algorithm, popped up a previous novel, for me, a weird and wonderful used bookstore find, The Rivers of London.
I have a long-standing, occasional love affair with British surrealistic comedic fantasy speculative fiction. Running gags, in-jokes, monsters under the bed? All of that. Looks like there are a half-dozen books in this series, at least so far, and I’ll see how that goes, but the first? Certainly was fun.
The Stranger Times
Explains the true purpose of tabloid journalism.
