The Game, it turns out, has greatly impacted him. That narrator tells the story from New York, but it turns out that he is a bit of a shut-in, relying on medications and memory tricks to get through life. The book does keep you guessing most of the way as to who actually died, as the narrator, it turns out, is highly unreliable. The only difference here is that the stakes seem lower and the body count is nowhere near as high. That might sound a little Battle Royale or Hunger Games-esque, and you’d be right. However, things eventually go wrong, and one of the players dies. All six players lay out a deposit, and the Game is hosted by a gaming society that adds money to the pot and seemingly control things behind the scenes. They also increase in severity as the Game progresses. None of these consequences are illegal to do, but they’re designed to cause discomfort. Basically, while Yates provides few details as to the mechanics of the Game (which is odd because he’s worked as a puzzle editor), the consequences for losing each round is that each person has to do a truly embarrassing thing, such as being caught wanking off in a public washroom. In the former part of the story, six students decide to play a new game that they’ve invented, simply known as the Game. The book alternates between Oxford University in 1990 and New York City some 14 years later. The book is one with multiple plot twists - some ingenious and some insipid - and anyone interested in psychological thrillers might want to read this. A few US publications also gave it some good recommendations, and I suppose that was enough for Picador to decide to pick it up in 2015. It’s a pretty great read, albeit one with some problems.īlack Chalk was originally published in Britain in 2013, and while it never made its way originally to American shores, independent book stores in the States started getting the odd copy and heartily recommending it to readers. Yates’ Black Chalk, and I have to say that I wasn’t disappointed. So I decided to sit down with Christopher J. For one things, books tend to have a much longer shelf life than music, for instance, and a good book is a good book, regardless of the year in which it has been published. I’ve decided to give them a go, even if the books are now a little old. (That’s a year of book loving that I don’t get back, after all.) I got sent a few galleys from publishers, mostly Picador, but I never got around to reading any of them. I went a year without reading a book, and I missed out on a few things.
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