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Michael Cisco

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Inkluderar namnet: Michael Cisco

Serier

Verk av Michael Cisco

The Narrator (2004) 130 exemplar
The Divinity Student (1999) 126 exemplar
Animal Money (2015) 111 exemplar
The Traitor (2007) 103 exemplar
The Tyrant (2003) 81 exemplar
The San Veneficio Canon (2004) 68 exemplar
The Great Lover (2011) 64 exemplar
Secret Hours (2006) 46 exemplar
Unlanguage (2018) 44 exemplar
Antisocieties (2021) 36 exemplar
Member (2013) 34 exemplar
Celebrant (2012) 33 exemplar
The Wretch of the Sun (2016) 20 exemplar
The Golem (2013) 15 exemplar

Associerade verk

The Weird: A Compendium of Strange and Dark Stories (2011) — Bidragsgivare — 815 exemplar
The New Weird (2008) — Bidragsgivare — 519 exemplar
Lovecraft Unbound (2009) — Bidragsgivare — 328 exemplar
Black Wings of Cthulhu: Tales of Lovecraftian Horror (2010) — Bidragsgivare — 262 exemplar
The Book of Eibon (2001) — Bidragsgivare — 114 exemplar
Blood and Other Cravings (2011) — Bidragsgivare — 69 exemplar
Leviathan Three (2002) — Bidragsgivare — 68 exemplar
Aickman's Heirs (2015) — Bidragsgivare — 67 exemplar
The Grimscribe's Puppets (2013) — Bidragsgivare — 61 exemplar
The Bestiary (2016) — Bidragsgivare — 58 exemplar
Leviathan 4: Cities (2005) — Bidragsgivare — 51 exemplar
Album Zutique: No. 1 (2003) — Bidragsgivare — 37 exemplar
Phantom (2009) — Bidragsgivare — 34 exemplar
Swords v. Cthulhu (1852) — Bidragsgivare — 30 exemplar
The Tindalos Cycle (2009) — Bidragsgivare — 29 exemplar
Last Drink Bird Head : A Flash Fiction Anthology for Charity (2009) — Bidragsgivare — 29 exemplar
ODD? (2011) — Bidragsgivare — 22 exemplar
Dadaoism: An Anthology (2012) — Bidragsgivare — 19 exemplar
The Madness of Dr. Caligari (2016) — Bidragsgivare — 17 exemplar
Cinnabar's Gnosis: A Homage to Gustav Meyrink (2009) — Bidragsgivare — 14 exemplar
Shadows Edge (2013) — Bidragsgivare — 12 exemplar
This Hermetic Legislature: A Homage to Bruno Schulz (2012) — Bidragsgivare — 11 exemplar
Wonder & glory forever : awe-inspiring Lovecraftian fiction (2020) — Bidragsgivare — 9 exemplar
The Master in Café Morphine: A Homage to Mikhail Bulgakov (2011) — Bidragsgivare — 8 exemplar
Spirits Unwrapped (2019) — Bidragsgivare — 8 exemplar
The Leaves of a Necronomicon (2018) — Bidragsgivare — 4 exemplar
Mechanical Animals: Tales at the Crux of Creatures and Tech (2018) — Bidragsgivare — 3 exemplar

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Födelsedag
1970-10-13
Kön
male
Nationalitet
USA
Födelseort
New York, New York, USA

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Michael Cisco vient, désormais, de déplacer tous mes curseurs. Mon top 10 de tous les temps vient d'être chamboulé. Définitivement. Putain de claque.
 
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Jonathan_Herbrecht | 1 annan recension | Sep 26, 2023 |
More adventures of [b:The Divinity Student|1508685|The Divinity Student|Michael Cisco|http://d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net/books/1184448668s/1508685.jpg|1500248] as he is dug up by resurrection detectives and reanimated (with more formaldehyde). He soon escapes the two detectives and goes on a quest to become Viktor Frankenstein and build a Golem of himself to do his bidding, as he is too decrepit now to do many things on his own. The Golem's only duty is to capture and woo a female magician as a sort of Bride of Frankenstein for the Divinity student. All sorts of symbolic and surrealist mayhem ensues and it's often difficult to distinguish nonsense from the important things to keep track of the plot. Eventually all is sort of well again.

If you don't see parts of these novels as largely comic and picaresque then you'll be missing the point. Like a surrealist [b:The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman|76527|The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman|Laurence Sterne|http://d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net/books/1309202864s/76527.jpg|2280279]. Cisco is going to throw a lot of real but unusual, and just plain made-up, words at you and the book requires extraordinary attention to detail by the reader or you miss a lot; the kind of book you might have to read twice just to "get it."

I didn't like it quite as well as The Divinity Student but it might be because I sort of knew what to expect and there wasn't as much wonder of discovery.
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Gumbywan | Jun 24, 2022 |
For those of you that feel a need to put this in a slot, let us call this Gothic horror surrealism. Like all good surrealism the reader is going to want to assign meaning and connection to things that are meant to be meaningless and unconnected. On the other hand there is definitely somewhat of a linear plot here. In some places it is downright funny. The body snatching scenes are derivative of the usual cliches.

What else can you say about a book where the Divinity Student is eviserated and stuffed full of paper in the first few pages? Our fearless protagonist, a word-finder by trade, has to distill the essence of twelve dead word finders to finish the catalog of lost words. He will scamper through a surrealist background while he tries to finish his mission.

This is the only book I have read that has a large dose of surrealism and actually became a page turner for me. The Centipede Press hardcover is also beautiful and the illustrations are marvelous. I have not read anything except a few short stories by Cisco but I will definitely be dipping into this the rest of this box set from time to time.
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Gumbywan | 1 annan recension | Jun 24, 2022 |
"...The disaster is that the end has already happened, and we have survived it, no one knows when or what it was, there was no *event* — over time, the world ended, and yet here we all are with no world."
 
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jimctierney | 1 annan recension | Jul 7, 2020 |

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Verk
28
Även av
31
Medlemmar
979
Popularitet
#26,316
Betyg
3.8
Recensioner
14
ISBN
33
Favoritmärkt
3

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