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darkling_tales2007-10-24 11:10 pm
joysilence) wrote in darkling_tales2007-10-24 11:10 pm
The Sound of His Horn
LJ-SEC: (ORIGINALLY POSTED BY pgmcc)
Hat tip tojoysilence for putting me onto Sarban.
I have just finished The Sound of His Horn and enjoyed it very much. Without giving anything away, it is about the war time adventures of a British soldier who escaped from a POW camp in Germany. It does, of course, have a few weird twists, and is about terror/horror, or I wouldn't be mentioning it in this community.
The book deals with the horror of isolation; is a warning of the excesses of unchecked Nazism (and is really anti-Nazi propaganda in that context); could be construed as being about S&M; is misogynous; or simply panders to male fantasy. Whatever, it appealed to me.
I've read Sarban's The Doll Maker already (another good book) and have his collection Ringstones lined up to read.
I must get onto reading some of my Aickman and Ligotti stories.
pgmcc)Hat tip to
joysilence for putting me onto Sarban.I have just finished The Sound of His Horn and enjoyed it very much. Without giving anything away, it is about the war time adventures of a British soldier who escaped from a POW camp in Germany. It does, of course, have a few weird twists, and is about terror/horror, or I wouldn't be mentioning it in this community.
The book deals with the horror of isolation; is a warning of the excesses of unchecked Nazism (and is really anti-Nazi propaganda in that context); could be construed as being about S&M; is misogynous; or simply panders to male fantasy. Whatever, it appealed to me.
I've read Sarban's The Doll Maker already (another good book) and have his collection Ringstones lined up to read.
I must get onto reading some of my Aickman and Ligotti stories.