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Sandman Slim Hardcover – 1 August 2009

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Working as a sideshow gladiator in Hell after being snatched by demons at the age of nineteen, James Stark escapes and returns to Los Angeles, where he plots to destroy the magic circle that stole his life in spite of such challenges as the circle's conniving leader, an abusive talking head, and a sleazy video store owner. 50,000 first printing.

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Publisher : Harper Voyager (1 August 2009)
Language : English
Hardcover : 388 pages
ISBN-10 : 0061714305
ISBN-13 : 978-0061714306
Dimensions : 12.7 x 3.18 x 18.1 cm

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Supernatural fantasy has a new antihero

Life sucks, and then you die. Or, if you're James Stark, you spend eleven years in Hell as a hitman before finally escaping, only to land back in the hell-on-earth that is Los Angeles.

Now Stark's back, and ready for revenge. And absolution, and maybe even love. But when his first stop saddles him with an abusive talking head, Stark discovers that the road to absolution and revenge is much longer than you'd expect, and both Heaven and Hell have their own ideas for his future.

Resurrection sucks. Saving the world is worse.

Darkly twisted, irreverent, and completely hilarious, Sandman Slim is the breakthrough novel by an acclaimed author.

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Aspidistra

As subtle as an enchanted, sawn off shotgun

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 20 June 2017

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If you bundle Jack Reacher up with John Constantine and give him the hide of a rhinocerous, you might end up with someone like James Stark, AKA Sandman Slim, recently escaped after 11 tough years in Hell. What follows is a bullet riddled, gore splattered, revenge tale as Stark indulges in a murderous vendetta against those who sent him "Downunder" and killed his lover.

Sandman Slim is a not particularly original but entertainingly written, pure comic book action from beginning to end. As such, it's not going to be everybody's cup of tea. Don't read if you are looking for romance, fairies or subtlety. Do read if you like sardonic, violent anti-heroes, wanton destruction and supernatural horror reference spotting.

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Shez

Don’t bother... save your money!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 24 June 2019

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Well what a disappointment. I’ve had this book in my wish list for ages waiting for the price to come down. And when it did I was so eager to read it after waiting all of that time. But after 92 pages I gave up! And if I could have my 99p back, I would. It was that bad. I don’t usually give 1 star reviews but I was so disappointed with this book. The story is very disjointed. It flits all over the place. One minute we’re taking to other characters and the next he’s reminiscing about Hell. The grammar and proof reading is really bad. And what finally did it was speech marks starting and then not ending. So I wasn’t sure whether he was talking to another character or just telling the story. After waiting for so long for this book, I was not happy that I had to give it up...something I very very rarely do. One thing that is good about it - at least I got it on a deal and didn’t have to pay its full original price.

Escapades of a Bookworm

Despite some flaws is an enjoyable roller-coaster ride

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 6 September 2015

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he opening chapter throws you straight into the story, with the reader having no time to grasp what is occurring.

Stark is throw into the cosmic battleground, where there appears to be no good guys (the Angels do not come across as particularly angelic).

The book is written in the first person so we know what is going on in Stark’s head. The narrative tone is full of dark humour, sarcasm and conveys someone who is a bit full of himself; Stark allows his mouth to get him into trouble, as he normally speaks before he thinks. Despite this Stark is a likeable character. While we know Stark is not evil (despite what the Angels say), we see that he has his own crooked moral code – save his friends and seek revenge.

For me there were two flaws in this the book. The first was the use of Alice (Stark’s love interest before he ended up in hell), we never see the type of character she was or what Alice and Stark really shared. Instead she comes across as a device used by Kadrey so that we can sympathise more with Stark and see him as a flawed hero rather than a virtuous villain. The second is where did the name Sandman Slim come from. Even the title character is confused over the name choice and we never receive a sufficient answer.

Despite these flaws, Sandman Slim was a thoroughly enjoyable book, and was from beginning to end a roller-coaster ride.

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Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 23 October 2019

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Sandman slim is written how he describes Maledictions. Which is to say a tyre fire inside a candystore.

If I now have your attention come in take a sit let's talk. If like me you have been following the trend of urban fantasy you maybe familiar with other authors and heros or antiheros in the series.

You may like Hellboy or Constantine. You may also be more familiar with books than comics. Ok so how about Harry Dresden, Anita Blake, Mercy Thompson and Nate Temple? If you have read one or more of these types of books then hopefully your still here as this is where it gets good.

Sandman slim isn't like the others, he is in your face he's angry and he isn't crying about his crabby day. Yes as a character he has flaws and makes mistakes but they are within his character not world breaking trying to string the book out.

I've recommended this series several times and no one I got to pick it up hasn't finished it or didn't want to talk about it or recommend it to others.

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Cheesy fun.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 14 July 2016

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This is a bit of a cliché-fest at times with the overly hard-bitten protagonist against a variety of dark forces. There is the past betrayal and guilt of a lost love and the get-out-of-jail-free card of special satanic magic.

The book often feel like a discount Hellblazer, Stark is similar to Constantine but lacks the humour of the better Hellblazer stories.

The plot is straight-forward, there are a few twists but the aren't very surprising since there are so many different back-stories etc being introduced that any plot device could be explained away.

It is clearly intended as the start of an open ended series, not a lot of depth or originality but some slightly gritty style, a guilty pleasure rather than anything special.

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