I recently read Mike Carey’s first novel - I thought it was pretty good, despite being a bit difficult to slog though for having been more richly imagined and described than anything I’ve ever read, and I’m thinking I’ll snag his next one from Amazon UK rather than wait for it to be released here. In similar news, you can now read the first chapter of Warren Ellis‘ first foray into books-without-picutres, Crooked Little Vein, online
I opened my eyes to see the rat taking a piss in my coffee mug. It was a huge brown bastard; had a body like a turd with legs and beady black eyes full of secret rat knowledge. Making a smug huffing sound, it threw itself from the table to the floor, and scuttled back into the hole in the wall where it had spent the last three months planning new ways to screw me around. I’d tried nailing wood over the gap in the wainscot, but it gnawed through it and spat the wet pieces into my shoes. After that, I spiked bait with warfarin, but the poison seemed to somehow cause it to evolve and become a super-rat. I nailed it across the eyes once with a lucky shot with the butt of my gun, but it got up again and shat in my telephone.
Assuming you haven’t already read it somewhere else.
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Have you read Lucifer or his stint on Hellblazer?
Yes, both - very good, IMO. Haven’t read any of his more recent stuff, like Crossing Midnight, though.
I had pre-ordered Warren Ellis’ book, but after reading the first fifteen pages at Amazon, I decided to cancel it.