See, these people are train-wrecks and everybody loves a grizzly train-wreck. Now that all sounds like I should have a concrete opinion but maybe that was Koja's plan. They had a plot to progress, though, which felt cheap to me. Most of the party's interlopers end up being so pathetic that I found myself wishing they'd never shown up in the first place. Nakota, the ex-girlfriend, is apathetic enough to dislike but not menacing enough to hate. Nicholas just mills through life being miserable and the only characters with any redeeming qualities sit so far on the periphery of the novel that you see little of them. This one, though, left me wondering whether I was disturbed by this next bit, or truly didn't like it. Now usually I'm not on the fence about my opinions. By the end, I felt like I needed a shower and some antibiotics. I felt like someone just plugged me into this dude's head and let the story fly. The Cipher makes way more sense as it reads as a stream of consciousness. Most First Person POV's either completely ignore the protagonists reason for writing their life story, or try to be all sly in convincing you that you really don't know what to expect even if you think you do. This one, in past tense, was unlike anything I'd read before. First person/present tense makes me wanna go punch the author though, as so few of them read as anything other than shitty to-do lists. It's a little hard for me to wonder if the protagonist dies if they're writing in past tense. My favorite thing about this book is the way it was written. In my opinion, first person POV's really need to be done well in order to retain a suspension of disbelief. In part, the funhole acts as another character, in both the life it's given by Koja's writing and the sway it has over the characters. Similar plots have us traveling back and forth between the worlds but from the start, this happy funhole makes it damn clear that a leap of faith isn't to be taken lightly. In horror, completely unseen plots are hard to find and this one does a good job of bringing something new to the table. Together, they find a hole, aptly dubbed "the funhole" in a largely unused storage room in his apartment building and creepy shenanigans ensue.
#The cipher kathe koja free
Our protagonist, Nicholas, is a ripe fucking mess who can't seem to shake himself free of his beautifully sociopathic ex-girlfriend. It's a first person, mild body horror romp into the gritty underbelly of the human condition. Kathe Koja is an American writer who debuted in 1991 with her novel novel, The Cipher, which won both a Bram Stoker and a Locus award.
I set off to find some good-ole-horror from a few fellow females and this one came highly recommended. We're starting off with an older one, folks.
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