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A review by colinreedmoon
Master of Reality by John Darnielle
4.0
Masterfully told. A story of lost youth at the hands of the hard-line world of 'youth treatment', dealing with youth hospitals and state programs meant to aid children but ending up hurting them in later life by mistake.
It says a lot about Darnielle (himself no stranger to troubled youth--having both been one and, later, working with them--the whole of his 'Sunset Tree' is dedicated to these themes) and his ability to understand complicated characters, both in song and in prose.
I'd like to see more of his writing, and I'm glad the 33 1/3 series allowed this type of entry; Colin Meloy's was more band history by way of personal memoir, Kim Cooper's was more straight journalism, and this is sheer fiction.
Brilliant. The best one-sit read I've had all year.
It says a lot about Darnielle (himself no stranger to troubled youth--having both been one and, later, working with them--the whole of his 'Sunset Tree' is dedicated to these themes) and his ability to understand complicated characters, both in song and in prose.
I'd like to see more of his writing, and I'm glad the 33 1/3 series allowed this type of entry; Colin Meloy's was more band history by way of personal memoir, Kim Cooper's was more straight journalism, and this is sheer fiction.
Brilliant. The best one-sit read I've had all year.