Comments on: The Children’s Hospital — Chris Adrian

By: Two Visions of Apocalypse: Margaret Atwood’s The Year of the Flood and Martin Bax’s The Hospital Ship « biblioklept

Thu, 08 Apr 2010 00:57:11 +0000

[...] favorite used bookstore, intrigued first by the (now retro-)futurist font, then the name, echoing Chris Adrian’s The Children’s Hospital, another book about a hospital-as-ark. If the black-and-white collage cover art didn’t seal [...]

By: A Better Angel — Chris Adrian « biblioklept

A Better Angel — Chris Adrian « biblioklept — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 19:43:17 +0000

[...] who’ve read Adrian’s novels The Children’s Hospital and Gob’s Grief will find that the stories in A Better Angel work to flesh out a distinctly [...]

By: Gob’s Grief « biblioklept

Gob’s Grief « biblioklept — Tue, 20 May 2008 04:36:13 +0000

[...] a marvelous aplomb rare in debut novels, a promise he lives up to in his fantastic follow-up The Children’s Hospital (Pickie Beecher shows up again in that novel, and its main protagonist, Jemma Claflin, is a [...]

By: Superlatives 2007 « biblioklept

Superlatives 2007 « biblioklept — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 16:04:19 +0000

[...] to give the award to a book published last year, Chris Adrian’s astounding and astonishing The Children’s Hospital, a book so good that I actually had to stand up to read it at [...]

By: Stuff You Can Buy/Stuff That Is Free « biblioklept

Stuff You Can Buy/Stuff That Is Free « biblioklept — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 23:41:52 +0000

[...] If you’re ordering all this stuff online, you might as well pre-order the paperback printing of Chris Adrian’s The Children’s Hospital. I read it and loved it, despite the fact that my edition was hardback (I find hardback books, particularly those of epic length, awfully difficult to read). You can read all about my love for The Children’s Hospital here. [...]

By: ed biblioklept

ed biblioklept — Sat, 07 Jul 2007 00:37:34 +0000

ah…suicidal gestures…surely the sign of a good read.
yeah, i will definitely be reading Gob’s Grief as soon as I get a hold of a copy (and recover from The Children’s Hospital).

By: sfm

sfm — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 23:17:10 +0000

Easily one of the best things I’ve ever read, period. When I finished the book, I felt as though maybe that was it – maybe I’d never read another book again (did other books even exist any more?). It made me want to write and it made me want to lie down in the road and die for the futility of even thinking I might do so. Ah, the former won out by a hair.

Anyway, if you haven’t yet read Gob’s Grief, it’s also pretty amazing.