Podcast: “Crazy Dangerous” Is Now Available
May 4th, 2012 - 4:30 am
Here’s a new Ricochet podcast in which I chat with my friends and colleagues James Lileks and CJ Box about novel writing.
Which brings me to the fact that my new novel is now out from Thomas Nelson. Crazy Dangerous tells the story of a kid named Sam Hopkins. After he befriends a girl who is spiraling into the first stages of schizophrenia, he begins to believe her hallucinations are in fact prophecies, predicting a terrible evil that only he can prevent.
This is a story about kids so I guess technically it’s a young adult novel, but I’m getting some very good reactions from the older set as well. So give it a try. It’s a cool story and different. And if you do read it, drop a line or comment to let me know what you think.
Having just finished the homelanders and then reading C.D. I’m seeing, if not a pattern, then at least a proficiency with crazy people. You do crazy people accurately but also with sympathy. Do you have an inside experience?
Got me thinking, though, about Anders Brevink, or whatever his name is. It’s an embarrassment to conservatives that he’s “on our side”, although he’s far from Christian. But your two books made me wonder. What if crazy people are actually going to be right some of the time because they are just crazy enough to stand up to the overwhelming tide of media whitewashing and social engineering. You have to be very smart to see through it all, very brave to stand up to it all, but being crazy already puts you outside the camp so you can perhaps see it clearly too. He’s crazy enough to think what you aren’t allowed ever to think about. The problem is, then you go and do something crazy with it.
I probably shouldn’t have spoken those thoughts out loud, but it was one of the interesting offshoots of your novels for me.
Anyhow, I thought C.D. was perhaps a little slow to start (but then, I had just read Homelanders) but was very good as I got into it. In particular I like how the ‘supernatural’ element was not where we thought it was going to be.
A good book every teenage boy should read. Also those teenagers who are 30 years old.
Thanks.
Michael Hutton
Australia