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The Long Trial of Nolan Dugatti

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Coming along at around the same time as Ledfeather, Stephen Graham Jones 'The Long Trial of Nolan Dugatti' is a great read. Written in a weekend, it reads as anything but. Video games and a father who can't quite kill himself make up Nolan Dugatti, who sits alone in night at his call center desk on the last night of his employment, waiting for someone to call, curious how to pass a level of a game no one has played in close to ten years, he waits, and when that phone finally rings, his night is just getting started, as something stalks through the building, something from the end of time and the beginning of his life, Nolan Dugatti will face what he has done. Stephen Graham Jones writes fiction that will haunt you.

The Long Trial of Nolan Dugatti is a darkly humorous look under the hood of a young man wrestling with an unresolved past. I suppose that anyone whose father attempted suicide as a hobby would have more than a few daddy issues. The book takes place in a Kafkaesque cubical farm manned by the last employee of a long defunct software title. The premise was wholly original and engaging, and the pacing of the story kept tempo right until the end. Dugatti is a good weekend read that won't let up and leaves you checking under your bed for invisible centipedes.The Long Trial of Nolan Dugatti

This was a great read. It was fun and light-hearted with a dash of dark twisted situations and humor. How can you go wrong with a book that sticks video games, ninjas, and failed suicide attempts all together and lets them simmer and soak into one another. Another great book by Stephen Graham Jones, what can I say... I'm not surprised. Read and enjoy.

Giving a customer service rep for an obsolete video game a father who continually fails suicide (re: infinite lives) is brilliant.

A quick, fun read, very unlike the dense material fans of Stephen Graham Jones are familiar with. Not better or worse because of that. Just a different mode.