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Jérémy from ClubStephenKing, contributor to the

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reading group

, recommends

Funny Time

 from Joe Hill, published on September 22, 2021 by Éditions Jean Claude Lattès.


Her favorite quote:

“Short novels are not quiet strolls;

they are more akin to drag racing.

We step on the pedal and take our story to the edge of the cliff ”

(Joe Hill, in the afterword to his book)


Why this book?

  • Because the book is written by Joe Hill, son of Stephen King

    and full author, whose popularity has undeniably grown since his first book ...

  • Because it is a collection of four novellas, short novels,

    with very different but intriguing premises.

  • Because Halloween is fast approaching,

    and you can never read too many disturbing stories around this time.

  • Because Joe Hill is also the creator of the

    Locke and Key

    comics

    that inspired the Netflix series, the second season of which arrives on October 22 on the platform.

  • Because Joe Hill has also been adapted in series

    with

    Nosfera2

    (available on Amazon Prime Video) and he will be talked about again next year with the horror film

    The Black Phone 

    scheduled for the end of January in the USA… produced by Blumhouse and directed by the creator of

    Sinister

     and

    Doctor Strange

     !


The essentials in 2 minutes

The plot.

 -

Snapshot

 : A teenager is stalked by a man with a Polaroid that erases memories.

-

Charged

 : A security guard stops a shooting.

-

Up there

 : During a parachute jump, a man lands on a cloud.

-

Rain

 : Rains of crystal needles spread throughout the world.

Characters.

 Different characters, representing what society has good and bad.

A teenager stalked by an adult.

A security guard and the gun defense movement.

A man doing his first parachute baptism.

People trying to protect themselves from the deadly rains ...

Places.

 Mainly in the United States: Silicon Valley, Florida, Colorado, through… the sky and its clouds.

The time.

 The first story takes place in the past, in 1988. Otherwise the others are rather contemporary and tackle head-on the subjects of societies, in particular that of the gun lobby in the USA.

The author.

 The book is signed Joe Hill, a novelist and genre writer.

He mainly writes comics (

Locke and Key

), fantasy and horror stories, undoubtedly influenced by the family in which he grew up since his father is none other than Stephen King.

This book was read with 

curiosity and anguish.

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