The Fall of Never
by Ronald Damien Malfi
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Author: Ronald Damien MalfiEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2004-11-01
ISBN: 0974503177
Number of pages: 352
Publisher: Raw Dog Screaming Press
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Book Review: A Skillful, Satisfying Read
Summary: 5 Stars
It's always nice finding a gem from the small presses - anyone can read the latest Stephen King opus and enjoy it, but how many of us have discovered the wonder of both Ronald Damien Malfi and the fine folks at Raw Dog Screaming Press? Not too damned many...but that's gonna change someday soon. You can't keep stuff this good from hitting the greater world for very long.
Mr. Malfi is a technician of the finest order. His sentences...his paragraphs...his chapters...all flow together so beautifully that 'The Fall of Never' could serve as a primer for How to Write Great Fiction (and not just Horror Fiction - but Fiction in general. This is the best-constructed book I've read in probably a year). He, in his second novel, has perfected the quiet art of pacing, and I haven't seen characters this good since...hell, since early Stephen King. The novel is a creeping tale of lost memories, lost childhood, and there's a twist on the Frankenstein/Pygmalion theme that is the most original approach to horror I've seen in many moons.
It's a claustrophobic book, a gentle book, a grotesque book - and Malfi juggles these varying moods and styles with the skill of a four-armed juggler, never dropping a ball and rarely writing a sentence that doesn't ring with the perfect clarity of truth (and we all know Keats on the subject, right? Any truth is automatically beautiful, and this book ranks with the great beauties of all literature).
Sorry to rave so hard about this - but it's that good, folks. Please give the man a shot - and keep the string of perfect RDS titles going. The more we buy, the more they'll print - and the better the world will be for it.
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