KIT POWER GOES TO FCON
1/10/2016
 Ah, that difficult second Con.
This time, it will be different. I’ve gotten prepared, that’s the thing. I’ve downloaded onto my Google calendar all the events I want to make it to - even added the location into the title so I know which hotel I’m going to be in. I’ve got a Panel on Saturday afternoon, a reading Saturday evening, and another panel Sunday afternoon. I will be focussed. I will be disciplined. I will got to every launch I want to get to, every panel and interview I want to see. I will go to bed at a sensible time on Friday, and I will not drink on Saturday until I finish my reading at 11:30pm. Last year, I got overwhelmed and rolled over by the sheer scale of the event, star struck and bobbing like a cork on the tides of fate. Not this time. This time, FCon, I am wise to you. This time, I’m in the driving seat. Yeah. You can already see where this is going. So I arrived on Friday afternoon, made it into the lobby of the Grand, and waited with the bags while Vix (who was insanely kind enough to swing by MK on the way past to pick me up) parked up. I Could Do Better: The Scarlet Gospels
1/10/2016
  THE SCARLET GOSPELS In contrast to general opinion, I rather enjoyed Clive Barker's The Scarlet Gospels. Certainly not the book I or anyone was expecting; far, far, far from Barker's best work, but one I cannot deny taking some adolescent thrill from (I believe I described it as the literary equivalent of a ghost train ride in my initial review).
That said, I am under no delusions as to its short-comings; all of the criticisms that have been levelled at it elsewhere on this site (and others) are true and then some. It is inconsistent, comic-book in tone and heft, ducks and dives all over the place without ever centring or focussing on a clean or definite through-line (so far removed from any of Barker's previous works, it has led many to question just how involved in its production the man actually was). Which criticisms beg the question: How would I have done it better? |
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