Last Days is a marvelous mash-up of hard-boiled detective noir, literary mystery and straight-up horror that never comes across as messy or confused. No matter how dark and heavy the subject matter, how dire the situation, the dialog is often lightweight and comical.

My knowledge in both fields is highly limited, so, although I wouldn't be able to distinguish which, I'll trust my instincts on this one. Este libro con esta portada tan sumamente brutal llevaba ya tiempo pidiéndome a gritos ser leído y por fin le hice casito y lo elegí para la última conjunta del año con mi querida loca de los libros. All ends in tears, as Kline oversteps the rope he's been given to hang himself in a nefarious plot to rid the world of a bad “holy” man; the body count mounts; and Kline doesn't escape without losing yet more body parts to the Brotherhood of Mutilation. His books can be disturbing, both on a visceral and on an intellectual level, but then that’s what he’s paid to do, it’s a distinction of the genre he works in.By using the Web site, you confirm that you have read, understood, and agreed to be bound by the Terms and Conditions.

I’d wager it’s something along the lines of - it’s a slippery slope from religious zealots to fanatical death cult. Especially since it’s possible, after all, to completely exchange the religious reading of the two sects with a political reading, which could focus on a contrast between a more collectivized, communistic ideology and a pseudo-individualistic ideology like capitalism. Will he uncover the truth in time to save himself, take on the mantle of prophet, or destroy all he sees with a rain of biblical violence? Es en su parte final donde vuelve a mostrarnos más agilidad en los acontecimientos pero quizás de una manera demasiado acelerada, dejándonos con un final brusco que personalmente tampoco me ha gustado. The Publisher Says: Intense and profoundly unsettling, Brian Evenson’s Last Days is a down-the-rabbit-hole detective novel set in an underground religious cult.The story is a bizarre and dazzlingly original sci-fi/dystopian/horror that really defies explanation. The other is that the hierarchies of the brotherhood and its customs create an environment that is reminiscent of a Kafkaesque bureaucracy, Kline, the man who had his arm cut off and still shot his opponent in the eye, is reduced to a pawn, jostled here and there, lost among a community whose logic he barely comprehends. It consists of two parts of almost equal length, the first of which, “The Brotherhood of Mutilation”, was published in 2003, in a limited edition of 315 copies.

Afternote: was just reading the other reviews here and this one from Brian really made me laugh: For those of you that have read this book you will understand why I feel the need for a hug. The Brotherhood of Mutilation” is much more dense, more focused upon its issues and the calamity that waits in the wings. There is obviously a lot of anger directed towards organized religion in LAST DAYS, but there is a lot more to it. Unfortunately, the latter half, while still entertaining, wasn’t quite up to snuff with his initial creation—it was all a little too over the top, for my taste.Because the leader of The Brotherhood of Mutilation, who count their spiritual progress by the number of body parts lopped off, has been murdered. I cannot wait to read more by Evenson, as his prose and his word choices make it difficult for you to put it down. Which, not to belabor the point, Kline doesn't want to do but does, in the process meeting an old friend, killing an old enemy, and causing a degree of mayhem only describable as Biblical.