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Original Title:	Song of Kali
ISBN:	0575076593 (ISBN13: 9780575076594)
Edition Language:	English
Setting:	India Calcutta(India)
Literary Awards:	World Fantasy Award for Best Novel (1986)

Song of Kali

Dan Simmons

Paperback | Pages: 320 pages

Rating: 3.61 | 10225 Users | 817 Reviews

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Title	:	Song of Kali
Author	:	Dan Simmons
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 320 pages
Published	:	March 10th 2005 by Gollancz (first published 1985)
Categories	:	Horror. Fantasy. Fiction. Thriller

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Calcutta: a monstrous city of immense slums, disease and misery, is clasped in the foetid embrace of an ancient cult. At its decaying core is the Goddess Kali: the dark mother of pain, four-armed and eternal, her song the sound of death and destruction. Robert Luczak has been hired by Harper's to find a noted Indian poet who has reappeared, under strange circumstances, years after he was thought dead. But nothing is simple in Calcutta and Lucsak's routine assignment turns into a nightmare when he learns that the poet is rumoured to have been brought back to life in a bloody and grisly ceremony of human sacrifice.

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Ratings: 3.61 From 10225 Users | 817 Reviews

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Well, this is embarrassing. I finished the book this morning and am feeling clueless. Im not sure I got it. Husband: Well, did you like it or not?Me: I really liked it.Husband: Why did you like it?Me: Im not sure. Husband: What was it about?Me: Ummm, evil. And India. CrimeI think. Cultural differences. But also likenesses. Its a horror story but, well, not really. Husband (with a tone): Well, I certainly cant wait to read it. Funny thing is, I recommend thishighly.

Although this novel is classified as horror, the nature of that horror is somewhat ambiguous. There are hints of supernatural horror and there is the presence of violent criminality but, in some ways, it is the Indian city of Calcutta (Kolkata in modern spelling) itself that is the true horror portrayed in this book. This is due to its densely overpopulated environment, its shocking levels of deprivation, its gulfs of inequality, and its poor sanitation all of it worsened by the monsoon season,

I had heard of Dan Simmons but this was my first foray into his actual work. I can't believe I hadn't read this already. Exotic locales - check. Creepy cults - check. Ritual sacrifice - check. Ancient supernatural entities - check. And that reveal in the airport at the end disturbed my imagination for days. It also made me want to watch Temple of Doom over and over again, which is definitely not a bad thing.

Dan Simmons is one of the most skilled writers of science fiction currently putting pen to page (or however that metaphor would work in a post-paper age). His Hyperion series is a well-regarded classic that takes Chaucer's Canterbury Tales into the space-faring age and his Ilium and Olympos still stands as the most interesting rendition of a post-singular society-slash-retelling of Homer's epic-slash-paen to Shakespeare that I've ever read.It was with great excitement that I picked up Simmons'

I swear, I get myself into all sorts of nightmares adding horror books into my tbr. A bitch will never learn, seriously. But to be fair, a good book is a good book. Even if it fucked my mind up and cause me to question the shadows and what's living inside it.

A strange thing happened while I was reading this book. All through the first half or thereabouts, I gritted my teeth and cursed. I didn't think I would enjoy the rest of the journey. Had I given up partway through, I would have come to goodreads years later (I read this book in 2007 or so) and probably given it two stars.Then, something happened. I realised, or at least I think I did, what Simmons was trying to do, and I understood that the reason I was having a hard time with this book was

* A 300-page diatribe against Calcutta, which city evidently offended Simmons at some point.* His hero, Bobby Luczak, is a coward who behaves stupidly and illogically; he's an effete literary type who one would think would treat his mathematician wife with some respect, but who repeatedly hides things from her and deserts her without reason. He claims to have a terrible temper, yet he's impotent in a crisis.* He has a child, a 7-month-old daughter, whose very existence serves only one unpleasant