John Ajvide Lindqvist – Hanteringen av odöda Läsutmaning 60 (read a book with no living creatures on the front) (no pun intended.. well yes. )Plot.The plot is quite unique actually. The people that have been dead for less than 2 months wakes up in Stockholm and they want to come home. They're not...
Every section of this book seems like it should take place in the prior section. The last third seems like the middle of a novel, the second third seems like the beginning, and the first third is mostly useless back story. (For instance, Simon's past as a magician with a troubled wife has almost ...
Meh. It ended up following a completely different path than I thought it would. It veers from one disturbing plotline to the next. The story nevers quite feels like it flows naturally. Instead it feels like Lindqvist is forcing it to go wherever he wants. Jerry, in the end, seems to be vastly und...
Exceptional, morbid, and quite beautiful. This one forms a trifecta with two other grand titans of horror lit I've read of late, "The Troop" by Nick Cutter and "The Girl Next Door" by Jack Ketchum. Alright, alright, I was also mightily impressed by the military-novel-slash-zombie-epic "WWZ"... so...
2.5 stars for being an interesting idea but a book that required effort to get through. A philosophical read concerning what happens when one day, inexplicably, everyone in Stockholm who died in the past 2 months reanimates. These are not zombies attacking people or dead people suddenly jumping b...
My friend got this book for me, and I've never been a zombie fan, but I though "okay, I can give this a try". I wish I hadn't. I'm reading it, and the entire time I'm thinking "when is something going to happen?" I'm halfway through it, and there's nothing. Normally I don't put books down in the ...
I loved that the book was largely unpredictable, but then again, once you make zombies peaceful and have them induce the power for humans to hear the thoughts of other humans, how can you be predictable? I was ok with him leaving out an explanation of why they returned as "re-living," but since ...
This is a really tough book to review, because on one hand the story and characters were all over the place, but on the other it was still a surprisingly decent read. Despite the fact that the story was sort of a hodgepodge of metaphorical ideas that felt a lot like congealed short story fodder, ...
Lindqvist, universally described as either “Sweden’s Stephen King” or “the heir apparent to Stephen King,” has already covered vampire and zombie ground and now writes this bizarre ghost story which may or may not fit into H.P. Lovecraft’s Cthulu mythos quite snuggly… an atmospheric, slow-buildin...
This was a bad book. I enjoyed Let the Right One In, and was hoping for another great story from JAL. Not the case with this one. Characters and storylines that just fizzled out and disappeared (actually disappear - one of the main characters is suddenly never heard from again for no particular r...
Don't think I'd recommend this book if you're looking for a horror, there are parts that are truly shocking but I just didn't get the point of the whole book. I followed that being a teenage girl is a painful time but didn't get why the pack did what they did, makes no sense. For a strong literar...
Short take: It was readable and went very quickly, but I was ultimately disappointed in the direction the book went after the first half. I was most interested in the angle about what happens to a person who is raised with a completely different set of stimuli and human interaction than the rest ...
well, i din't knew this book scared me until i realized i've been having nightmares the whole week i've been reading it. one word to describe this book: GORE.i was looking for a copy of let the right one in when i saw this book being auctioned online. lucky me, not a lot of people in our place (c...
I read this because I want to know what happened to Eli and Oskar. The piece which gave a glimpse about their future life was a finely written love story. But, like most of the other short stories in this book, in addition to be surprised with the themes, I am pretty much intrigued by the so many...
Plain disgusting. Don't recommend it. There's nothing horror, no goosebumps or shivers down the spine while reading it... just nausea. To quote one of the stories: "I undid my trousers and took out my sodden sanitary towel. I painted you red. Chest, arms, legs. To finish off I tried to force the ...
I finally got my revenge on Sweden. For most of my life I’ve been bombarded with newspapers and radio telling me how Sweden is so much much very much absolutely completely better than Britain at practically everything. Here’s some random quotes from the BBC news archive :“Sweden has probably the ...
We can form an impression of someone by noticing their talents and qualities, good or bad—everything that appears on the surface. But if we really want to understand who they are, we must step into the darkness and acquaint ourselves with their flaws. The missing cog defines the machine. A pictur...
Svarvargatan 16.03 Death… David lifted his eyes from the desk, looking at the framed photograph of Duane Hanson’s plastic sculpture ‘Supermarket Lady’. A woman, obese, in a pink top and turquoise skirt, pushing a loaded shopping trolley. She has curlers in her hair, a fag dangling from the corner...
ANNA STÅBI—FLUX About the sea Land and sea. We may think of them as opposites; as complements. But there is a difference in how we think of them: the sea, and the land. If we are walking around in a forest, a meadow or a town, we see our surroundings as being made up of individual elements. There...