The Gargoyle by Andrew Davidson
Read it! If you're a fan of Chuck's descriptive style, there's something for you. If you liked The Book Of Lost Things, you will LOVE it. If you are chewing your knuckles waiting for Craig Clevenger's next novel, this might tide you over.
I can't say much because this is a book I read blind and I want you to read it the same way. It was in a box of books that Random house had sent Dennis and I set aside all my other books (Including the new Garcia Marquez! And new Ian McEwan!) after I read the first page.
Excerpt here.
Please, PLEASE read this if you are ready for a book that will enthrall the hell out of you and possibly make you cry.
I swear, I had 50 pages left when my sister came back from a 10 day vacation and I was house sitting for her. I couldn't even talk to her! I said I had to finish this book. I finished, handed it to her, went into the backyard where her kids couldn't see me, and had a good cry. Composed myself and three hours later my sister was still reading. I had to order pizza for her kids and get them bathed and teeth brushed and all that jazz because she couldn't put it down either.
This doesn't count as your review, you know!!
I expect it on my desk by end of month!!! 
ha! I'm busted. Go away! I'm trying to ship DVDS.
You can read the entire first chapter here,
http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/books/promos/rando/Gargoyle1-...
okay. and i am not reading any excerpts or news on it. i will order it in a few minutes and wait until i have it firm in my warm hands to breathe it.
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play hard, like it's work to be done.
changed my mind because funds are low and i'll probably get a gift card for xmas
i seem to always get a book giftcard this day
so i'll pick one up tomorrow
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Yeah, Kabol!
Thanks, Bug, just reread the first chapter. SPOILERS:
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The woman with the crossbow is very important and I totally teared up when she is mentioned in the first chapter.
I just read the first chapter and it sure as hell got me interested in reading the whole thing! It kind of got me thinking about Invisible Monsters there, with the hospital bit and the description of the injuries. It seems to be a good book and I will most definately have to pick it up! thanks a lot for the recommendation!
"Someone must have slandered Josef K., for one morning, without having done anything truly wrong, he was arrested."
"Jemand musste Josef K. verleumdet haben, denn ohne dass er etwas Böses getan hätte, wurde er eines Morgens verhaftet"
I skimmed through this a couple months back when it first came out. Seemed interesting liked the idea of this completely soul eviscerated man recreating himself or what i thought it may lead into him doing so with the aid a stranger. Kinda reminded me of invisible monsters if I recalling of the same book i skimmed through.
Was going to pick it up eventually but decided to wait with the short stack of twenty books i hadn't gone through yet.
It's barely like Invisible Monsters. Maybe the same idea of being changed by a stranger that's maybe not a stranger. But there's no road trip and the journey is from being burned and disfigured horribly to..Spoilers. 
The writing is just so fantastic and the story is startling and unexpected. I hope both of you do read it!
i picked it up the other day. it is now my bathroom reading. approx. ten pages per sitting.
the writing is very strong. some of the prose in the beginning bothered me a bit, which i internally blamed on the editor, but the overall writing is definitely superior. how the story is unfolding reminds me a lot of the contortionists handbook.
i definitely want a whole lotta people to have this read in the coming months so we can take it apart and peer at it's internal organs. this i feel will be a book to discuss.
-kabol
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Yeah, it reminds me more of The Contortionist's Handbook, too. It's a good fix for those waiting for Clevenger to toss us another bone.
oddly, that's what i thought. waiting for clev's third, this is a great tideover.
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Every year I pick out a favourite book then buy loads f copies and send them to my fellow Culties. Two years ago it was The Book Of Lost Things, last year, The Book Thief and this year its going to be The Gargoyle. Im not going to say much more about it in case I big it up too much for people but as I was reading through it I thought This is great for Culties.
The best thing is my local bookstore are getting in a more managable size paperback soon so later in the year they will be going out to various people, if you cant wait go ahead and buy it you wont be dissapointed.
I actually looked for it in the book store the other day but unfortunately my local book stores' catalouge isn't exactly enormous to say the least... Mostly main stream stuff in there. But if it is as good as you say I'll defiantley order it from amazon or something. By the way, which site is the best to order books from? amazon or?
"Someone must have slandered Josef K., for one morning, without having done anything truly wrong, he was arrested."
"Jemand musste Josef K. verleumdet haben, denn ohne dass er etwas Böses getan hätte, wurde er eines Morgens verhaftet"
hey, roos. ive been a big fan of the convenience of amazon for more than half a decade now. hell, i remember when it was cdnow almost a decade ago. i doubt that i would purchase as much online if there was a boarders in central arkansas, particularly in little rock proper. i also made a mistake, though, when i bought it. i had no idea it released in august of oh-eight. i noticed a few advanced readers copies on eBay for eight dollars, so i bought one. i thought the book had been out for a number of years, or more. so i get it, and it reads august of oh-eight. six months ago. so here i am, reading an arc, reading typos, blocked-shaded letters, AND i bought a copy that gave nothing at all back to the author. so i ordered a hard cover copy a week ago at the local barnes store. it came in saturday. i'll be picking it up this week.
it is that good. you'll definitely want to support the author.
and meerk, has den or anyone sent a copy of this book to chuck ? my feel is, chuck will fucking love this book.
-kabol
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Actually, my dear Kabol, Amazon wasn't CDNow. Amazon bought CDNow.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CDNow#Purchase_by_Amazon
I remember when Amazon only sold books, and I would buy CDs from CDNow, but then when Amazon started selling CDs I stopped buying from CDNow. I thought it was funny that Amazon eventually bought CDNow.
cdnow came first--at least in my memory. even though amazon was bigger. i'm naturally inclined to say one turned into the other.
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great recommendation! after reading the dust jacket I almost put it down, but decided to take your word and Im glad I did.
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I read The Gargoyle nearly 6 months ago and it made its way to my top 5 favorite books halfway through it. I was overjoyed to find that it had come up somewhere on these threads and it makes me all the happier that i joined 
This doesn't count as your review, you know!!
I expect it on my desk by end of month!!!
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