Book Review: Horns by Joe Hill
I began this book for no other reason than I felt like I had put it off too long. I finished it because once I started I found that I was physically incapable of setting it down. I felt like I couldn’t keep living without seeing it to the end – which came far too soon. It’s everything you could hope for from a novel. It’s a tale of love, loss, misplaced faith and devastating misconceptions. It will make you laugh, cry, hope and mourn. Above all it will give you a glorious, painful doubt about everything you thought you knew.
“I see God now as an unimaginative writer of popular fictions, someone who builds stories around sadistic and graceless plots, narratives that exist only to express His terror of a woman’s power to choose who and how to love, to redefine love as she sees fit, not as God thinks it ought to be. The author is unworthy of His own characters. The devil is first, a literary critic who delivers this untalented scribbler the public flaying he deserves.”
Horns is a novel that transcends genre and exceeds all expectation. I consider it to be the greatest love story of our time. There is no explanation that I could give of this book that would in any way do it justice, so I will leave you with this; read it and enjoy. Know that with each page I become more envious of you, who are experiencing this masterpiece for the first time.
“I see God now as an unimaginative writer of popular fictions, someone who builds stories around sadistic and graceless plots, narratives that exist only to express His terror of a woman’s power to choose who and how to love, to redefine love as she sees fit, not as God thinks it ought to be. The author is unworthy of His own characters. The devil is first, a literary critic who delivers this untalented scribbler the public flaying he deserves.”
Horns is a novel that transcends genre and exceeds all expectation. I consider it to be the greatest love story of our time. There is no explanation that I could give of this book that would in any way do it justice, so I will leave you with this; read it and enjoy. Know that with each page I become more envious of you, who are experiencing this masterpiece for the first time.
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