They force you to fly high with a character’s laughter or to grip their hand as anxiety takes you both. These books don’t just tell you how it feels to live the character’s life, they don’t just show you and rely on your empathy, they make you feel it for yourself. Books that spread throughout your systems, sometimes as an energy that lifts and warms and sometimes as a shadow that squeezes and aches, and drinks from your soul. Books that burrow deeper with each passing sentence. Then there are the books that crawl inside of you. Good books let us immerse ourselves in their worlds and great books pull us in. Because it has already seared his flesh, infected his soul, and started him on a journey of obsession – through its soothing, blank darkness into the blinding core of terror… My Thoughts Now from down the hall, the black hole calls out to Nicholas every day and every night. Then Nakota began her experiments: First, she put an insect into the hole. She had to make love to Nicholas beside it, and stare into its secretive, promising depths. She had to see the dark hole in the storage room down the hall. It began with Nakota and her crooked grin. Nicholas is a would-be poet and video-store clerk with a weeping hole in his hand – weeping not blood, but a plasma of tears… “If I could have broken his neck I would have, just for the pleasure of the silence after the snap.”― kathe koja, the cipher About
(Feb.Book Reviews So, have I cracked the code? Partially…maybe Inaugurating Dell's new Abyss Books series, this powerful first novel is as thought-provoking as it is horrifying. Koja has created credible characters who are desperate for both entertainment and salvation. For Nicholas himself, the hole is a phenomenon that forces him to face his miserable, aimless life. Mesmerized by the Funhole, she claims that Nicholas is the only one who can make things happen around it. To Nakota the hole means change, because whatever is dropped into the Funhole emerges transformed- if it ever emerges. The videotape they retrieve is spellbinding, but there's a catch: what Nicholas sees is different from everyone else's vision.
Next, they lower a camcorder into the hole to record the action within. Down-and-out Nicholas and his friend Nakota one day discover a black hole in the floor of an abandoned storage room in his apartment building, which they quickly christen the ``Funhole.'' The two set out to see what happens when they drop various items into the hole, whetting its appetite with insects, a mouse and a human hand, which all come back violently rearranged.
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