Joyland
Verano de 1973. Carolina del Norte. El joven universitario Devin Jones consigue trabajo en un pequeño parque de atracciones llamado Joyland. Allí se encarga de las tareas de mantenimiento, se disfraza de la mascota del parque o entretiene a los niños. Y allí descubre también la historia de un cruento crimen que tuvo lugar en la Casa Embrujada y que nunca fue resuelto. Pero Devin no es el único fascinado por el parque y su leyenda negra. Cerca de su pensión vive Mike, un chico enfermizo con el que pronto traba una peculiar amistad. El chaval no ha visitado nunca Joyland y le encantaría hacerlo antes de morir. Es entonces cuando Devin planea una visita privada para el final de temporada. El día transcurre entre montañas rusas e historias de terror sobre lo que pudo haberle pasado a la joven asesinada. Sin embargo, las visitas indeseadas y las preguntas indiscretas pueden provocar reacciones imprevisibles. Sin saberlo, Devin se ha metido en un peligroso juego del que tal vez no saldrá nunca.
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What Hacker News says
- The Power of Habit - Charles Duhigg (highly recommended)
Steve Jobs - Walter Isaacson (recommended)
Modern Romance - Aziz Ansari (audiobook recommended)
Boomerang - Michael Lewis (great if you have a light interest in macroeconomics)
Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future (recommended)
Outliers - Malcolm Gladwell (recommended)
Joyland - Stephen King (great, short read)
Creativity, Inc. - Ed Catmull (Parts on the history of Pixar were interesting)
- Can't believe that article didn't mention what has to be one of King's most notable opening lines, ever:
"The man in black fled across the desert, and the Gunslinger followed".
Another great one is from Orwell's Nineteen Eighty Four:
"It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen"
Anyway, in the case of King, it's too bad he isn't as good at endings as he is at beginnings. Under The Dome was, IMO, a particularly strong example of a really interesting story that just fell apart in the last page or two. And, of course, the Dark Tower series and the fizzle-flop ending of that.
That said, Joyland had a pretty strong ending and was fun to read.
- 1. Dan Lyons: Disrupted
2. Stephen King: Joyland
3. Ray Kroc: Grinding it Out
4. Antonio Garcia Martinez: Chaos Monkeys
5. Jonah Berger: Contagious
6. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi: Finding Flow
7. Calum Chase: Surviving A.I.
8. Dan Ariely: Payoff
