THIS WEEK’S BOOK YOU CAN’T PUT DOWN
I recommend a book you’ll never find on the
New York Times bestseller list, but a book that will stay
with you the rest of your life.
In keeping with the month of Halloween, this is
one to scare you:
Once you’ve read the scariest books ever written,
Halloween is never over, and you are never the same.
NOW READ THIS:
Nightmare Alley by William Lindsay Gresham
(“How do you get to be a geek?
I can’t understand how anybody can get so low.”)
William Lindsay Gresham’s novel about the dark edges
of carnival life was written from his experiences
with magic (he knew Harry Houdini)
and midway life. The film, starring
Tyrone Power, is equally dark and kind
of oblique. One thing is sure—you’ll
never use the term geek carelessly again.
What a geek is will haunt you for years.
READ AND CRINGE!