Hotel Flamingo eBook Patrick O'Duffy
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The cleaning lady eats time. The manager mourns his multi-gendered parent. A pirate radio DJ listens for God. An accountant prepares to kill again. And that's only in four rooms of the Hotel Flamingo, where the room service is terrible and reality flakes and crumbles around the edges.
Hotel Flamingo eBook Patrick O'Duffy
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Hotel Flamingo eBook Patrick O'Duffy Reviews
Entering each room of this hotel is like finding yourself inside a dark, edgy Twilight Zone episode. The originality of the ideas is equalled by the quality of the writing. The glutton in me just wishes each episode had been explored in greater depth and that there was a greater cohesion bringing them all together.
Patrick O'Duffy has a real grasp of short-story form. Each of the 22 tales in this volume stand alone, but also tie together to form the overarching narrative of a place with as much possibility in it as a TARDIS. The stories are short enough to be read on a commute, and the book is substantial enough to stand on its own as a novel. This is some real talent and imagination going on here.
Hotel Flamingo is like 22 Clive Barker books all trapped in the same building together, and I mean that in the best possible way. Each bite-sized chapter tells the story of one of the hotel's guests or staff and each one of them is satisfyingly weird on its own -- sometimes creepy-weird, sometimes funny-weird, sometimes just-plain-weird -- but taken together they're much more. Like interlocking puzzle pieces they click together as you read them, until you find yourself holding something entirely unexpected.
Welcome to the Hotel Flamingo is like the best bits of 22 longer books brought together fast, funny, weird, and brilliantly written.
O'Duffy has a unique style reminiscent of the best in modern urban fantasy; if you like China Mieville, or Gaiman's more adult stuff, this is probably your cup of tea, but you'll still find it new and exciting. O'Duffy also doesn't hold your hand, but lets you make the connections between the stories yourself; they build a fascinating bigger picture, but I suspect that picture will be a bit different for every reader.
A brilliant achievement. I want more from this guy!
A series of vignettes into a mysterious hotel where time itself has cohesion, the turns of phrases and artful imagination of the author paints of a vivid image of a speculative world just out of focus of our Earth. Presumably. Where words can become real, magic happens without comment, and a person can create their own fate.
"Hotel Flamingo" is stylishly creative, intriguing in and of itself, and has engendered many positive comments from readers but ultimately it didn't inspire me. A cross between speculative fantasy and classic horror with some really great concepts, lovers of fantasy and the eclectic read would certainly find it of interest.
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For a weekly writing exercise cranked out through a blog, Hotel Flamingo is a terrific work. Comprising twenty-two short-short vignettes about a host of loners, losers, monsters and quite a few janitorial workers whose strange paths intersect at the eponymous hotel, this is a creepy and imaginative piece of weird urban fantasy.
Tracing a hurried, almost desperate path from one haunted, ruined or just plain odd character to the next, these interconnected anecdotes recall the oppressive weirdness of Johnathon Tweet's Over The Edge roleplaying game or Grant Morrison's groundbreaking surrealist run on the Doom Patrol comic. The Hotel Flamingo would not be remotely out of place in either work, which I hope comes across as the high praise intended.
Author Patrick O'Duffy has a breezy, assured narrative voice that's as effective describing a character's crushing loneliness, his deranged inspirations and her existential befuddlement as it is at suggesting the horrific alien architecture lurking just behind the curtains (most of the time) in the story. That he has also constructed an intricate and complex tale from just a few slivers of detail is remarkable. If I have one complaint, it's that this collection is too easy to consume in a single serving, and I have an appetite for more. I don't imagine that O'Duffy intends to revisit this setting, but I would happily accept another fat slice of Flamingo.
It takes guts to write exclusively in the narrative. Paragraphs uninterrupted by the artifice of dialogue, with block after block of black words, scare most readers. You've got to have serious chops to pull it off, and O'Duffy does. He's like the dark offspring of Ian McEwan and Justin Cronin. When I first downloaded his book and started clicking through it on my , I got a bit worried because there weren't any quotes in sight, but his intelligent style more than made up for it. His descriptions are only bested by his imagination, and the dude does vocabularic plyometrics without coming across as pompous. The result is a novella full of decadent prose that I read in two sittings.
Compared to the other self published authors I've found, O'Duffy is doing jumping jacks in a field of authors doing sit-ups. The setting of Hotel Flamingo is obviously a hotel, but the work itself is a grouping of small but connected vignettes that are separated by room 22 characters, 22 rooms. Man that's cool.
O'Duffy knows what art is; he even comes right out and says it in the middle of his work "Art achieves its purpose without audience. It's meaningful even if unacknowledged." "Art" is one of those terms thrown around far too often, but to Hotel Flamingo, it applies. O'Duffy's work is meaningful, and it deserves the acknowledgment. I'm a fan.
Quirky and entertaining.
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