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Sound Of My Voice: The Amazing Seductiveness of a Cult Leader Who Knows the Future... Because She's Been There(via @io9)
What if you were introduced to a spiritual guru who claimed to have traveled back in time from the year 2054? What would it take to make you believe her?
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Someone made a flying DeLorean! Want!
This book freaked me out today!
First I stumbled across it this afternoon while clearing out the free-book shelf in the office at work. I’m in the mood for a mystery, said I, and Charlie Yu liked it. I guess I’ll take it home and see how it goes.
Then I opened it while making dinner. It started well—solid enough to pick up again after feeding the cats. Delved back into it after that. Looked up an hour or so later, famished. Glanced at Twitter while getting the food I’d made an hour ago and Sarah Weinman was tweeting about the very book I was in the middle of reading:
Enthralled by James Renner’s debut novel THE MAN IN THE PRIMROSE LANE. Read his 2008 story on the case it’s based on: http://web.archive.org/web/20080509074025/http://freetimes.com/stories/15/47/who-was-joe-chandler
Huh. Ate quickly so I could go back to the book and then got sucked down into that heavenly reading timewarp; the book just gets better and better as it goes on. Finished it and it was great. Not at all what I expected but still incredibly satisfying. Hit almost all of my sweet spots as a reader. I think I will be recommending it a lot. True crime AND sci-fi, fantastically, an element that I don’t want to share for fear for ruining it for you, and a few handtagawd gasped-out-loud moments. I haven’t finished a book in such a feverish state since I binged on Gone Girl last month.
Then I read the article Sarah had posted. Then I freaked out! It turns out this book actually sort of happened a little bit? And it just so happens that I see the link online to the real story as I’m in the middle of the novel one? A novel which I barely knew existed until a few hours ago? Not a good mental situation for old Conspiracy Theory Anderson after reading a book in which, to put it without spoiling anything, coincidences are much much more than they seem.
And now it just started raining. Ahh! If I disappear tonight, start with James Renner, he’ll probably know where I’ve been taken.
