{"id":5194,"date":"2015-03-26T17:07:43","date_gmt":"2015-03-26T21:07:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/?p=5194"},"modified":"2026-01-21T15:36:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T20:36:10","slug":"vicious-circle-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/5194","title":{"rendered":"Vicious Circle"},"content":{"rendered":"

Vicious Circle<\/a><\/em> (2006) Mike Carey<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Vicious-Circle\"<\/a>Felix Castor can’t stay out of trouble. He’s taking some consulting work for the police, to bring in some money, but when parents as him to find their daughter–who is a ghost–Felix gets in bigger trouble than even he expected.<\/p>\n

There’s just something about the writing in these books. Felix is snarky as all get out.<\/p>\n

I wasn\u2019t wasting any sympathy, because you never know when you\u2019re going to run out.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

(A) hangover of the spirit. How the hell do you cure that? A hair of the god that bit you?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

(T)his thing was all dark red wood and elegant curves. No gun that dolls itself up as pretty as that ever gets asked out to an actual battle.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

But it’s the other bits that I love. The random phrases and facts that are dropped in.<\/p>\n

Laying the doll down on the steering wheel like a tiny Ixion<\/a>…<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Early Gothic, very early, taking its shape from Abb\u00e9 Suger<\/a>\u2019s original prescription…<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Non sibi sed toti<\/em>, usually translated as \u201cI hope you brought enough for everyone.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

(R)ight then I felt like one of those poor guys in Plato\u2019s cave<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I signed the day book as Frederick Cheney LaRue, a name that had stuck with me after I read that Woodward and Bernstein book about Watergate.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I mean, how can I not love a book with references like that?
\nRating: 8\/10<\/strong><\/p>\n

Published by Orbit<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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Felix […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12,30,2,8,41,16],"tags":[131,737,130],"class_list":["post-5194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-8-10","category-british","category-fantasy","category-mystery","category-reread","category-supernatural","tag-felix-castor","tag-ghosts","tag-mike-carey"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piQkW-1lM","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1268,"url":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/1268","url_meta":{"origin":5194,"position":0},"title":"Vicious Circle","author":"Michelle","date":"August 5, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"Vicious Circle (2006) Mike Carey Felix (Fix) Castor, who is usually at loose ends, is suddenly involved in three different cases. 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