Söndags-smakbit # 8

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Jag har precis kommit i mål med min senaste bok på engelska, en över 500-sidors fantasy-horror-roman i Stephen Kings anda, The Book of Accidents skriven av Chuck Wendig

Smakbit sid. 36

“Animals did not like to go inside the tunnel. They didn´t communicate this to one another, not precisely. They had no shared language from species to species, though certainly they could talk to their own kind – in chirps, clicks and chitters, bleats and grunts. But at no point did any beast need to tell another: Do not go in there! They knew. It thrummed in their fur and feathers. They sang the warning in their blood.”

sid. 285

“For the first time, he saw Eli Vassago. Small dark eyes nestled in a white face. Bone white. A little pair or found eyeglasses sat on his bent hammer-claw nose, so far down they looked like they were trying to jump off and commit suicide. His hair was dark, and around his mouth was what looked to be a hasty sketch of facial hair – soft, dark, thin. He looked disheveled an pallid and he said – I´m sorry for the way I look. I borrowed my face from someone else.#