Mystery
So I finished re-reading my favorite book of all time and it's still my favorite book of all time.
It's been awhile since I've read some PETER STRAUB. There was a phase at around 12 or 13 when I read everything of his I could get my hands on. I made it a point to re-read at least every year if not two years.
A few years later in high school I revisited "THE BIG THREE", also known as "The Blue Rose Trilogy".
I picked up and read Straub's last two, latest books and they were wonderful, but nothing compares to the blue rose books.
The first book of The Blue Rose Trilogy is called Koko.
Koko is about a unit of men in Viet Nam who go through some really, really, really crazy stuff.
Years later, when they get back one of the men in their unit starts running around and killing the remaining guys from the unit. The main character is Timothy Underhill.
When Koko starts, Underhill's name is "on the map" for writing a book called 'The Divided Man', which is a novelized retelling of a series of murders that took place years ago, in which the killer signed "Blue Rose".
The Second Book (aka the greatest book of all time) is MYSTERY
In which a young boy living on the Island of Mill Walk, Tom Pasmore, ends up digging around in the deep dark past of his family and their friends who are all part of the island's upper-upper class. While doing this, he solves a few murders.. almost dies.
One thing that he discovers, though the book doesn't really dive into it... is that The Blue Rose murders had never been solved, because the wrong person was assumed to be the murder.
Which brings us to the Third Book.
While some continuity things have changed (though it's explained in the book... essentially retconned)
Timothy Underhill goes back to essentially figure out what the Blue Rose murders are really about, especially considering the fact that they've started up again. And while it's regrettably an Underhill book (I prefer Pasmore myself), Tom shows up and lends a hand as well... and I only remember bits and pieces of this one.
Later, Peter Straub wrote two additional Timothy Underhill books, but they're in no way tied to BLUE ROSE at all. They're sort of a duo of their own... which I really need to track down and re-read because LOST BOY, LOST GIRL was utterly fantastic.. and after you read it you totally have to look up the video for it online.
It's kinda spooky..but in a nice way.
Anyhow...
I picked up Mystery again.. it blew my mind. I'm following it up with THE THROAT, and i'll swing back and read some other straub books as i work my way through my 'pile of new books i still need to read'.
I don't know why, but reading brings me such joy.
It's been awhile since I've read some PETER STRAUB. There was a phase at around 12 or 13 when I read everything of his I could get my hands on. I made it a point to re-read at least every year if not two years.
A few years later in high school I revisited "THE BIG THREE", also known as "The Blue Rose Trilogy".
I picked up and read Straub's last two, latest books and they were wonderful, but nothing compares to the blue rose books.
The first book of The Blue Rose Trilogy is called Koko.
Koko is about a unit of men in Viet Nam who go through some really, really, really crazy stuff.
Years later, when they get back one of the men in their unit starts running around and killing the remaining guys from the unit. The main character is Timothy Underhill.
When Koko starts, Underhill's name is "on the map" for writing a book called 'The Divided Man', which is a novelized retelling of a series of murders that took place years ago, in which the killer signed "Blue Rose".
The Second Book (aka the greatest book of all time) is MYSTERY
In which a young boy living on the Island of Mill Walk, Tom Pasmore, ends up digging around in the deep dark past of his family and their friends who are all part of the island's upper-upper class. While doing this, he solves a few murders.. almost dies.
One thing that he discovers, though the book doesn't really dive into it... is that The Blue Rose murders had never been solved, because the wrong person was assumed to be the murder.
Which brings us to the Third Book.
While some continuity things have changed (though it's explained in the book... essentially retconned)
Timothy Underhill goes back to essentially figure out what the Blue Rose murders are really about, especially considering the fact that they've started up again. And while it's regrettably an Underhill book (I prefer Pasmore myself), Tom shows up and lends a hand as well... and I only remember bits and pieces of this one.
Later, Peter Straub wrote two additional Timothy Underhill books, but they're in no way tied to BLUE ROSE at all. They're sort of a duo of their own... which I really need to track down and re-read because LOST BOY, LOST GIRL was utterly fantastic.. and after you read it you totally have to look up the video for it online.
It's kinda spooky..but in a nice way.
Anyhow...
I picked up Mystery again.. it blew my mind. I'm following it up with THE THROAT, and i'll swing back and read some other straub books as i work my way through my 'pile of new books i still need to read'.
I don't know why, but reading brings me such joy.