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The World Fantasy Award winner by the author of the Hyperion Cantos and Carrion Comfort An American finds himself encircled by horrors in Calcutta.
 
Praised by Dean Koontz as “the best novel in the genre I can remember,” Song of Kali follows an American magazine editor who journeys to the brutally bleak, poverty-stricken Indian city in search of a manuscript by a mysterious poet—but instead is drawn into an encounter with the cult of Kali, goddess of death.
 
A chilling voyage into the squalor and violence of the human condition, this novel is considered by many to be the best work by the author of The Terror, who has been showered with accolades, including the Bram Stoker Award, the International Horror Guild Award, and the Hugo Award.
 

Song of Kali edition by Dan Simmons Mystery Thriller Suspense eBooks

I am not a Dan Simmons fan. I tried Simmons The Terror (2007) an 800-page inventive bloat that became more and more unbelievable as it spun off in odd story directions. And I am also not a fan of his popular Hyperion series (for the same reason a few other critics don’t like it, i.e. lacking internal story logic.) And yet, you can tell Dan Simmons is a very intelligent guy and is trying to do things you have not seen before in fiction. SONG OF KALI is one of his successes. It’s an old-fashioned atmospheric horror tale (at times I felt like I could have been reading Ambrose Bierce from the 1890’s.) This book shows that Simmons has the capacity at times to be a terrific, clear, evocative writer. I have no idea if he has ever been to Calcutta but the foul city he convincingly evokes is a hot nightmare of piss, garbage, sewage, disease, and ancient supernatural horror. This is quite a fresh accomplishment, and Simmons evokes it economically. I don’t quite believe the plot, but plot is never Simmons strong point. His strength is that sentence by sentence, he is a highly skilled writer and keeps you interested in his story — even if it is going mostly nowhere. Simmons aims high. He wants to be “literary” and that ego can prevent him from the kind of direct pleasure a more populist horror writer like Stephen King delivers. Simmons has huge innate talents, but they can become uncontrolled, twisted and ingrown. He indulges himself at the expense of his readers. And yet, to give him credit, he does manage to fulfill H.P. Lovecraft’s mandate for horror: “The true weird tale has something more than secret murder, bloody bones, or a sheeted form clanking chains according to rule. A certain atmosphere of breathless and unexplainable dread of outer, unknown forces must be present; and there must be a hint, expressed with a seriousness and portentousness becoming its subject, of that most terrible conception of the human brain–a malign and particular suspension or defeat of those fixed laws of Nature which are our only safeguard against the assaults of chaos and the daemons of unplumbed space.” Yeah, SONG OF KALI has all that. I just wish Simmons was able to achieve such peaks of quality on a more regular basis and with greater economy. Mr. Simmons should post on his wall either: “brevity is the soul of wit” and/or “omit needless words.” But not both cliches.

Product details File Size 5219 KB Print Length 324 pages Publisher Open Road Media (April 1, 2014) Publication Date April 1, 2014 Sold by  Digital Services LLC Language English ASIN B00J90EMK6

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Song of Kali edition by Dan Simmons Mystery Thriller Suspense eBooks Reviews

I know Dan Simmons only as the author of "Drood" and "The Fifth Heart".

Reading this, his first book, is totally unexpected. Dan Simmons captures the very real horrors of the Indian city, as well as the horrors people are capable of.

You won't want to put this book down, even though you can't imagine the horrors real and imagined.
This book deserves a 5 star. Dan Simmons is indeed a born story teller just like Micheal Chrichton and Stephen King my two favourite authors. With the Song of Kali, I can feel that Dan Simmons has done lots of research and has taken his time to complete the novel. The character developments are simply superb. You can sense the personality of each character as vividly as if you know them. You get the feel of Calculata and India too and the mannerism of some of the indian characters in the novel. At the end of the day, I can perfectly relate to the pain and mental torment of the narrator in the plot. Yes indeed Kali is a fierce goddess, but reality is not always black and white. The age of Kali indeed is not the doing of this compassionate goddess, but the fall in decadence and decay of our society is our own doing. There also it is not mankind's fault, it is simply is and nothing else. Otherwise, I enjoy the book and I highly recommend it.
While Dan Simmons's Song of Kali isn't the "most terrifying reading of my life" like the back cover blurb presupposes it to be (that honor still belongs to Adam Neville's The Ritual), there's enough disquieting uneasiness and at least one big shock that will linger on in my mind for quite some time.

Song of Kali follow the narrator, Bobby Luczac - an editor of an upscale New York literary magazine - as he travels to Calcutta, India to hunt down a renowned poet who has purportedly resurfaced after eight years missing. Bobby brings his young wife and infant daughter along on the trip. While in Calcutta, he is slowly drawn into a conspiracy that may or may not involve the followers of the Hindi goddess Kali.

To say anything more would be to rob the potential reader of truly sensorial and horrific reading experience. Author Dan Simmons wickedly plays with sensation of being disoriented while being submersed in a completely foreign culture in order to ratchet up the tension. He also isn't going to receive any praise from Calcutta's tourism board - he renders the city in almost unbearable detail, focusing on the unimaginable poverty and squalor as viewed through the eyes of an entitled American tourist.

Ultimately, Song of Kali does build to a Big Moment. And it is disturbing, even if it may be a little predictable - the inevitable sense of doom that permeates the novel's back half does reach realistic climax. Simmons plays with our expectations of resolution and, in the end, leaves us just as disoriented and haunted as a long layover in a nightmare airport.
I am not a Dan Simmons fan. I tried Simmons The Terror (2007) an 800-page inventive bloat that became more and more unbelievable as it spun off in odd story directions. And I am also not a fan of his popular Hyperion series (for the same reason a few other critics don’t like it, i.e. lacking internal story logic.) And yet, you can tell Dan Simmons is a very intelligent guy and is trying to do things you have not seen before in fiction. SONG OF KALI is one of his successes. It’s an old-fashioned atmospheric horror tale (at times I felt like I could have been reading Ambrose Bierce from the 1890’s.) This book shows that Simmons has the capacity at times to be a terrific, clear, evocative writer. I have no idea if he has ever been to Calcutta but the foul city he convincingly evokes is a hot nightmare of piss, garbage, sewage, disease, and ancient supernatural horror. This is quite a fresh accomplishment, and Simmons evokes it economically. I don’t quite believe the plot, but plot is never Simmons strong point. His strength is that sentence by sentence, he is a highly skilled writer and keeps you interested in his story — even if it is going mostly nowhere. Simmons aims high. He wants to be “literary” and that ego can prevent him from the kind of direct pleasure a more populist horror writer like Stephen King delivers. Simmons has huge innate talents, but they can become uncontrolled, twisted and ingrown. He indulges himself at the expense of his readers. And yet, to give him credit, he does manage to fulfill H.P. Lovecraft’s mandate for horror “The true weird tale has something more than secret murder, bloody bones, or a sheeted form clanking chains according to rule. A certain atmosphere of breathless and unexplainable dread of outer, unknown forces must be present; and there must be a hint, expressed with a seriousness and portentousness becoming its subject, of that most terrible conception of the human brain–a malign and particular suspension or defeat of those fixed laws of Nature which are our only safeguard against the assaults of chaos and the daemons of unplumbed space.” Yeah, SONG OF KALI has all that. I just wish Simmons was able to achieve such peaks of quality on a more regular basis and with greater economy. Mr. Simmons should post on his wall either “brevity is the soul of wit” and/or “omit needless words.” But not both cliches.