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Threshold is my favorite Kiernan novel and Silk is a close second. I divide Kiernan fans into three different groups. Some fans adore Caitlin's transgender lifestyle translated into cosmic dark fantasy. (Murder of Angels) Some dig her hallucinatory, literary ambiguous design. (Is "The Red Tree" TERROR in her mind or is it real? I'm a fan of Caitlin's terror and prose. Caitlin's goth punk Angel Carter overheated Henry Miller slays me! Time traveled me back to 1992 New Orleans or Atlanta second hand clothing store hidden beneathe neon lights and black shadows.

When folks are young they have so many acquaintances and friends. As they age, they pair off and drop out. So since SILK is Caitlin's first, it should come as no surprise that SILK is Caitlan's most people populated novel: Transitory community youth migrating from scene to scene , goth punk clubs, sofa surfing, tattoos and terror. If that's your bag then Silk is divine! A sense of anarchy reigns. Sans the fiction, SILK is a historical slice of Gen-X southern urban goth and punk culture. There's a rose in Caitlin's prose and spiders and thorns shorn strewn SILK's terror.

4 1/2 stars rounded up to 5. I've read SILK twice and thrice isn't out of question. A borderline horror masterpiece!


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Silk Caitlin R Kiernan 9780451459008 Books Reviews

Dense and sometimes heavy going with a complex prose style--lots of adjectives,repeated phrases, etc., and a large cast lof characters The supernatural part is sometimes not as clear as I would like, but her work is always memorable--even when you try to forget some of it! I liked "The Red Tree" better, but "Silk" kept my attention throughout, and I've already downloaded "The Drowned Girl." She's a very distinctive voice in horror.
I don't know why I naively thought that "Spyder" was just a nickname, that there wasn't any significance or special symbolism to it. So when the spiders started to make their presence in the novel known, I was unprepared, and as an arachnaphobe, pretty freaked out. I like being disturbed, however, so this was not a bad thing. I am particularly impressed to learn that this is Kiernan's first novel -- her prose is so polished, and her character's are for the most part well-rounded. "Silk" reminded me a lot of Poppy Z. Brite's "Lost Souls," but Kiernan's novel seems more accomplished, more like the Poppy Brite of "Exquisite Corpse." The only down-side to the novel is that some of the action isn't as clearly described as I would have liked. I won't give anything away, but I would have liked a clearer idea of exactly what happened at the novel's climax. This kept me from giving the novel a full five stars, but I would have liked to give it 4.5, rather than just four, as this lack of clarity was distracting, but the novel was otherwise well-done. I know that when I see another novel by Caitlin Kiernan, I'll have to pick it up. This woman has talent!
I recently read The Red Tree and The Drowning Girl, the author's most recent novels, and loved them. So I decided to go back to the beginning and start with her first novel, Silk. I was excited to read it, but boy was I disappointed! It was like reading a completely different author at first. And not a very good one at that. The style of writing was so awkward and dense that I'd find myself saying "huh?" after every convoluted descriptive passage. I think the worst offender in this regard was probably the first chapter, the one about Daria. That was another problem I had. Nothing much happened for the first 142 pages, and I found Daria and Keith and their "band" utterly boring and mundane. Most of the characters were melodramatic losers, except for Theo, who seemed like she was the voice of reason in it all. The plot finally picks up after that and the style of writing actually becomes much better, because the author doesn't have time to cram the text with unnecessary descriptions that add nothing to the narrative, because stuff is actually happening to these characters. If you're looking for a scary read (which I wasn't) there's not much for you here. There's stuff that's slightly creepy in places, but that's about it. When the characters start dropping like flies, there's not much suspense in it because the author goes back to vague descriptions that don't make it clear what is actually happening. I didn't have a problem with the ending, though. It actually worked for me.

If this was my first novel by the author, I definitely would have put this book down after a couple of chapters and completely written her off. But I soldiered on because I knew she could do better, and the second half of the novel proved me right. So if you're new to her or this was your only exposure to her work, I highly recommed getting your hands on either The Red Tree or The Drowning Girl. She gets much much better.

I'll read the rest of her novels, because they can only get better from here. The second half of Silk certainly showed glimpses of the author who wrote her last two novels.
Threshold is my favorite Kiernan novel and Silk is a close second. I divide Kiernan fans into three different groups. Some fans adore Caitlin's transgender lifestyle translated into cosmic dark fantasy. (Murder of Angels) Some dig her hallucinatory, literary ambiguous design. (Is "The Red Tree" TERROR in her mind or is it real? I'm a fan of Caitlin's terror and prose. Caitlin's goth punk Angel Carter overheated Henry Miller slays me! Time traveled me back to 1992 New Orleans or Atlanta second hand clothing store hidden beneathe neon lights and black shadows.

When folks are young they have so many acquaintances and friends. As they age, they pair off and drop out. So since SILK is Caitlin's first, it should come as no surprise that SILK is Caitlan's most people populated novel Transitory community youth migrating from scene to scene , goth punk clubs, sofa surfing, tattoos and terror. If that's your bag then Silk is divine! A sense of anarchy reigns. Sans the fiction, SILK is a historical slice of Gen-X southern urban goth and punk culture. There's a rose in Caitlin's prose and spiders and thorns shorn strewn SILK's terror.

4 1/2 stars rounded up to 5. I've read SILK twice and thrice isn't out of question. A borderline horror masterpiece!