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John Ajvide Lindqvist

Auteur van Laat de ware binnenkomen

32+ Werken 9,566 Leden 473 Besprekingen Favoriet van 50 leden

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Werken van John Ajvide Lindqvist

Laat de ware binnenkomen (2004) 5,675 exemplaren
De doden keren terug (2009) 1,379 exemplaren
Het zeewezen (2008) 904 exemplaren
Wolfskinderen (2010) 534 exemplaren
Let the Old Dreams Die (2007) 271 exemplaren
Hemelstrand de eerste plaats (2014) 238 exemplaren
Pappersväggar : tio berättelser (2006) 194 exemplaren
Itsy Bitsy (2011) 84 exemplaren
I Always Find You (2015) 78 exemplaren
I Am The Tiger (2017) 27 exemplaren
Vänligheten (2021) 23 exemplaren
Nordic Visions: The Best of Nordic Speculative Fiction (2023) — Medewerker — 19 exemplaren
Verkligheten (2022) 18 exemplaren
Speciella omständigheter (2014) 18 exemplaren

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Gangbare naam
Lindqvist, John Ajvide
Officiële naam
Lindqvist, John Ajvide
Geboortedatum
1968-12-02
Geslacht
male
Nationaliteit
Sweden (birth)
Geboorteplaats
Blackeberg, Sweden
Woonplaatsen
Stockholm, Sweden
Beroepen
comedian
magician
screenwriter
novelist
short-story writer
Relaties
Ajvide, Mia (wife)
Prijzen en onderscheidingen
Nöjesguidens pris bästa läsning (2005)
Svenska Akademiens pris till Harry Martinssons minne (2007)
Göteborgs-Postens litteraturpris (2008)
Stiftelsen Selma Lagerlöfs litteraturpris (2008)
Korte biografie
John Ajvide Lindqvist was born in 1968 and raised in Blackeberg. He wanted to become something awful and fantastic. At first he was magician, came second in the Nordic Championships in card tricks. Since he was a stand-up comedian for twelve years. In the end, he was horror writer.

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The thing with any novel by John Ajvide Lindqvist is to remember the stages of reading.

https://www.austcrimefiction.org/review/i-am-behind-you-john-ajvide-lindqvist-0
 
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austcrimefiction | 13 andere besprekingen | Feb 28, 2024 |
Me: you got the stuff?
John Ajvide: (slides a paper bag labelled “Loving daddies and granddads” across the counter)
 
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unsurefooted | 70 andere besprekingen | Feb 25, 2024 |
Not a bit horror reader, but I really, really enjoyed this all the same. A lot of, you know, horror. I loved how mundanely, boringly fucked up the normal characters were.
 
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unsurefooted | 262 andere besprekingen | Feb 25, 2024 |
Had to pick it up to read the short story that is a "sequel" to [b:Let the Right One In|943402|Let the Right One In|John Ajvide Lindqvist|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1327893384s/943402.jpg|928338]. Turns out it was nothing very interesting, and like the shorter stories in this collection one of the weakest in it. The more room Lindqvist takes to build his stories, to slowly increase the anxiety and horror and dread, the better they turn out.

My favorites are two almost novella length stories, Tindalos and Final Processing. The former brings in the Hounds of Tindalos from the Cthulhu mythos. A woman came to the attention of such an entity due to a violent childhood incident, and it spends the next three decades searching for her through time and space, finally locating her as she is in the midst of a collapsing marriage (horror finds horror). The resolution is violent, surprising and satisfying.

Final Processing is a sequel to [b:Handling the Undead|4328472|Handling the Undead|John Ajvide Lindqvist|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1328152386s/4328472.jpg|2828796], and resolves the ultimate fate of the "reliving". The ending is a bit problematic, because no way would the location of this resolution be so casually and incompetently guarded, and the nature of the mysterious Stranger must have gotten lost in translation somehow, but up until that point it is an intriguing story.

Other stories of note are The Border, in which a woman discovers that she isn't nearly so human as she was raised to believe, Equinox, in which a lonely woman discovers a dead body in strange circumstances and finds that it wasn't really the best choice to unburden her worries and problems to, and Eternal/Love, in which a near-drowning victim believes he has found the secret to eternal life and wants to share it with his wife. Perhaps you will not be surprised to hear that that does not end well.

That leaves six remaining stories that I wouldn't really recommend bothering with, however they're all fairly short so at least you won't spend much time on them if you do.
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Werken
32
Ook door
10
Leden
9,566
Populariteit
#2,515
Waardering
3.8
Besprekingen
473
ISBNs
315
Talen
24
Favoriet
50

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