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Bezig met laden... The Bleeding Seasondoor Greg F. Gifune
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. I loved, loved, loved this book, but the ending left me a little confused. This is so different than anything I've read recently. I have another book by this author on the way and am excited to have found his books! ( ) An unqualified five star horror. What if you find out your best friend, one you've known since childhood, was a serial killer? His death, and life, haunts you. How would you exorcise this demon? Gifune writes so well on top of it all. As much a psychological horror as a supernatural one, maybe more so. We really get inside Alan Chance as his life slowly unravels after his friend commits suicide. He learns more and more about his friend's real past versus what he thought was his past. In the process we begin, like him, to wonder what is real and what is not? We ultimately have to face the evil inside us all and how we respond to it. Not overly gorey, but there are some gut wrenching scenes. There is also some explicit sex. "After all, Goodness is a state of grace. Evil, is a state of mind". The above is just one of the quotes from this book that I LOVED. This is my fourth Gifune novel/novella and it will not be my last. The story is set in a small coastal town in Massachusetts. Alan and his friends are mourning the loss of their friend Bernard who committed suicide by hanging. They are shocked and confused. Then they find the suicide 'note' left by Bernard. And so begins their journey into the dark. Mr. Gifune tells the story so well, I will leave the rest of the story and plot alone. I will say, the writing in this novel is so good, it's almost lyrical at times. I've read Heretics and The Rain Dancers,(among other things), by this author and in my opinion Mr. Gifune writes very well, especially when it is in reference to people who are damaged (and who isn't?). One of my favorite quotes addresses this: "We were all the same, it seemed to me, all of us dented and scratched and damaged, held together with pins and duct tape, the walking wounded making one last stand in the dark before giving in to the inevitable". With a cast of well developed characters and an engaging story, this one is highly recommended! I can't wait to read more by this author because he is quickly becoming a favorite in my book. I think I'm going to be in the minority on this one. Beautifully written, no doubt about that. The first third of the book was gripping and intriguing, but then the story became mired in lengthy ruminations by the narrator (usually not a good thing in a first-person book) and rambling didactics by secondary characters whose eloquence inexplicably exceeded what it by all rights should have been given their descriptions. There were several problems I had here, the main one being that the plot:lenth ratio was way off. What could have been an excellent novella is instead padded out into a full-length novel. Words, so many words - pretty words that flow and sparkle, but ultimately add little to the story. The actions of the protoganist throughout the story have a deus ex machina feel that I never was able to buy into as real, urgent or even likely, and this reduced the level of suspense to curiousity rather than excitement. The other issue I had was with the complete seriousness of the proceedings. The ambition of the author to achieve "literary" or "meaningful" fiction status seems to be greater than what the product actually delivers, and the darkness and evil it intends to portray comes off to me about as menacing as a Nine Inch Nails video from the mid-nineties. A little fun never fails to hurt a work of horror in my opinion, and there is little in the way of fun here. Overly earnest writing in horror makes me snicker, sorry. Several scenes in the book stood out as exceptionally realized in written word, but actual horrors were few and far between. Unfortunately, I found the money shots in this book to be highly reminiscent of things I've seen in many horror films over the years. Excellent chops, few truly original ideas. I will read more by this author in the future, as I'm sure this book was in sync with the prevailing trends of horror at the time of release. Just not my cup of tea in the story and style department. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
Evil is state of mind.Alan, Tommy, Rick, Donald and Bernard were inseparable best friends living in the small coastal Massachusetts town of Potter's Cove. A circle of five, their world was simple and happy until the day Tommy was struck by a car and killed. Nothing was ever the same. They were never the same. Years later, as the four survivors--all unhappy, unsuccessful and marking time--approach their fortieth birthdays, Bernard suddenly commits suicide. Within weeks of Bernard's death, one by one, the mutilated bodies of murder victims are found in town, and as the three remaining friends attempt to solve the riddle of Bernard's suicide, they come to realize that he may not have been who or what they thought he was. His entire life may have been a lie, and rather than the sad, lonely and harmless person they believed him to be, he very well may have been a savage ritual killer, a bleeder of young women who conjured evil to fulfill his own demented dreams. To find the truth, not only about Bernard, but themselves, they must delve into the darkness and those who inhabit it, a darkness that cradles an unspeakable evil so terrifying it could forever trap them in the shadows of the damned and shatter the very concept of their existence.Greg F. Gifune's THE BLEEDING SEASON, originally published in 2003, has been hailed as a classic in the horror genre and is considered to be one of the best horror/thriller novels of the decade. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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