A circle of friends is drawn back to a past riddled with mystery and horror. What happened on the set of the kid's show "Mister Magic?"
After thirty yA circle of friends is drawn back to a past riddled with mystery and horror. What happened on the set of the kid's show "Mister Magic?"
After thirty years of tragedy and a lifetime of chance, the group decides to visit a ranch in the desert where the TV show was filmed.
The book felt like a long-lost episode of X-files ("Chuckle Teeth") and the Twilight Zone. Strange. Complex. Abstract. Atmospheric. Ambivalent.
There is so much that is not inferred in this story, not described in significant detail, and I applaud White for never holding the readers' hand, spoon-feeding them, or smacking them over the head with every missing piece of the mystery. She challenges the reader to make their interpretations, which I find brazenly clever, especially with a puzzling read like "Mister Magic."
"Mister Magic" is a rare, small gem buried in a market heaping with identical plotting and character development books, the same old thing.
After White's page-turning "Hide" last year and now with "Mister Magic," I have added her to my author's auto-read list.
This book's underlying subject will make you cry or blur your eyes. The social commentary White weaves through the story with that emotional end will rock you to the core.
My only fuss is that I wanted more horror and Mister Magic. But after learning what all that horror was and how it was drawn and depicted in those final pages, maybe not....more
I know it is an unrealistic favor and entirely possibly self-serving on my part, but I wish Joyce Carol Oates would release a book a month. Her prose I know it is an unrealistic favor and entirely possibly self-serving on my part, but I wish Joyce Carol Oates would release a book a month. Her prose is hypnotic, puts me in the reading mood, and is a strongly--no--addictively anticipated author in my reading world.
I enjoy books that challenge you, make you think long after the story ends, and do not spoon-feed you every morsel of truth--or, in this case, a clue!--in their work. ...more
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