Green Glowing Skull, the upcoming novel from This is the Way author Gavin Corbett, is a half-crazed brain-shunt of a trip around the dream world, the spirit world, the cyber world and a woozily recognisable real world. A darkly comic tale of mythologies, machines and the metaphysical swirl, the book is uniquely written and is more than memorable. Here’s what happened when book blogger John Self gave it a spin…
Reading Gavin Corbett’s mad and entertaining new novel GREEN GLOWING SKULL. pic.twitter.com/tbJcxcbW8i
— John Self (@john_self) April 12, 2015
Like I said, mad: pic.twitter.com/LT0lJ6PwzZ — John Self (@john_self) April 12, 2015
Or indeed, manic: pic.twitter.com/rhXE74fPAT
— John Self (@john_self) April 12, 2015
*reads* “…his legs crossed, thigh over thigh, the effeminate way…” *uncrosses legs, looks around* — John Self (@john_self) April 12, 2015
“He was so disgusted by the sensation and sight that he did it again.”
— John Self (@john_self) April 12, 2015
Green Glowing Skull is going from bonkers to bonkerser. Someone’s head has just exploded on stage. I have only a faint idea what’s going on. — John Self (@john_self) April 12, 2015
Just as I thought Green Glowing Skull (I want to say Pale Green Ghosts) couldn’t get odder, it devolves into Unicode: pic.twitter.com/bETk88DLfk
— John Self (@john_self) April 13, 2015
Finished Gavin Corbett’s GREEN GLOWING SKULL. Scarcely a clue what was going on by the end. It’s written with terrific aplomb. — John Self (@john_self) April 13, 2015
So there we are.
‘Green Glowing Skull’ is published on 7th May 2015, pre-order here
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