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adam_mcphee 's review for:
Hollow
by Brian Catling
Incredible. This ruled. I was already a huge fan of Hieronymus Bosch and Pieter Bruegel the Elder (see my display pic), so to have a novel where their paintings come to life was amazing. At times it's kind of hard to follow the logic of the story, though the effect is to enhance the horror element. Definitely one I'd like to come back to and re-read in a few years.
My advice is, if possible, to read Hollow with a laptop or tablet handy so you can reference the paintings.
P.S. Can someone reading this point what painting the little pumpkin fellow is from? In the story, they're looking at Bosch's Temptation of St. Anthony, but then see the pumpkin in another painting off to the side, but for the life of me I can't figure out which one. It's next to an upended dog kennel?
P.P.S. If you liked this check out the film The Mill and the Cross starring Rutger Hauer as Pieter Bruegel the Elder. It's about his painting The Procession to Calvary in 1564, but it's more about the painting than the painter, and even more than Hollow it has its own sort of oneiric logic rather than a plot.
My advice is, if possible, to read Hollow with a laptop or tablet handy so you can reference the paintings.
P.S. Can someone reading this point what painting the little pumpkin fellow is from? In the story, they're looking at Bosch's Temptation of St. Anthony, but then see the pumpkin in another painting off to the side, but for the life of me I can't figure out which one. It's next to an upended dog kennel?
P.P.S. If you liked this check out the film The Mill and the Cross starring Rutger Hauer as Pieter Bruegel the Elder. It's about his painting The Procession to Calvary in 1564, but it's more about the painting than the painter, and even more than Hollow it has its own sort of oneiric logic rather than a plot.