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Handling The Undead...
finished reading 'handling the undead' by John Ajvide Lindqvist recently...
great, great read... the first 150 pages are some of the best i've ever read and the way that Lindqvist turns from the initial horror of the dead returning to the horrifying and sometimes upsetting way that various people react to this rebirth is superb... Personally, i felt he second half didn't quite live up to the first but I believe thats a matter of taste as I wasn't keen on the direction certain elements of the story took... Ultimately I felt that it wasn't quite as good overall as 'let the right one in' but, lets face it, thats a pretty hard act to follow. Really, really good overall... might warrant a reread...
I also have to highly recommend tom rob smith's 'Child 44'... bloody great read... relentless, compelling and really well written... The closest to a movie on paper that i've ever read... well apart from scripts obviously... they're closer to a movie on paper... cause thats what they are...
great, great read... the first 150 pages are some of the best i've ever read and the way that Lindqvist turns from the initial horror of the dead returning to the horrifying and sometimes upsetting way that various people react to this rebirth is superb... Personally, i felt he second half didn't quite live up to the first but I believe thats a matter of taste as I wasn't keen on the direction certain elements of the story took... Ultimately I felt that it wasn't quite as good overall as 'let the right one in' but, lets face it, thats a pretty hard act to follow. Really, really good overall... might warrant a reread...
I also have to highly recommend tom rob smith's 'Child 44'... bloody great read... relentless, compelling and really well written... The closest to a movie on paper that i've ever read... well apart from scripts obviously... they're closer to a movie on paper... cause thats what they are...
many things can be preserved in alcohol... dignity is certainly not one of them...
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Don't Look back is indeed a great read (and has been made in to a feature film, in Italy), although it's not Fossum's first book. For some reason they've been published over here in the wrong order.kitkat wrote:Following Alan's wonderful news about the Millennium films (Larsson is a truly great author) I have recently discovered another great Scandanavian writer- Karin Fossum. If you are into that dark, nordic type of narrative then check out her first novel Don't Look Back.
Read John Ajvide Lindqvist's Handling the Undead and thought it was a load of nonsense - after Let The Right One In I was not expecting sub-Stephen King pointlessness.
Also picked up a book by an Icelandic author I had never read before, althuogh she was no Arnadlur Indridason (who's on top form with The Draining Lake and Arctic Chill - will pick up his new one when it's in softback). Can't think for the life of me what her name is and can't see the book on Amazon.
Currently reading The Pyramid, a prequel of short stories/novellas to the Inspector Wallender books. As usual great stuff. He seems to have gone off the boil with his more recent post-Wallender books. Depths was OK, but couldn't enjoy Kennedy's Brain - to wishy washy. Got Eye of the Leopard to read next, but am told it's not up to much.
Need to check out: Hakan Nesser out Kjell Eriksson
Faves: King Henning Mankell, Arnadlur Indridason and Ake Edwardsson. Enjoed the first two Jo Nesbo books, but the third I picked up had too many co-incidences and similar plotting to the earlier ones.
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Exquisite Corpse is probably the weakest out of the series, did you read Lost Souls and Drawing Blood before it? Both are much better.
I just finished The Death of Bunny Munro by Nick Cave... now reading Beyond Black by Hilary Mantel.
I just finished The Death of Bunny Munro by Nick Cave... now reading Beyond Black by Hilary Mantel.
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