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I have just finished rereading Blood Will Have Its Season by Joseph S. Pulver,Sr. and experienced ,again,what got to me the first time: the internal soundtrack that comes out when reading his prose.To compliment a writer in this way may seem strange, but for a rock and jazz fan such as myself this is the best vocabulary that I can come up with in describing this collection of scenarios. I can hear Alice Cooper, for example, when reading "A Night of Moon and Blood, then Holstenwall". He named cats after Robert Fripp and Grace Jones in "Lovecraft's Sentence". He writes raw and blood rare, and I bet the next reader will also hear music of their own score come together the further in they go.
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Blood Will Have Its Season by Joseph S. Pulver
Greendeva3, August 31, 2009
I have just finished rereading Blood Will Have Its Season by Joseph S. Pulver,Sr. and experienced ,again,what got to me the first time: the internal soundtrack that comes out when reading his prose.To compliment a writer in this way may seem strange, but for a rock and jazz fan such as myself this is the best vocabulary that I can come up with in describing this collection of scenarios. I can hear Alice Cooper, for example, when reading "A Night of Moon and Blood, then Holstenwall". He named cats after Robert Fripp and Grace Jones in "Lovecraft's Sentence". He writes raw and blood rare, and I bet the next reader will also hear music of their own score come together the further in they go.(1 of 1 readers found this comment helpful)