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| Title | : | Handling the Undead |
| Author | : | John Ajvide Lindqvist |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 384 pages |
| Published | : | 2009 by Text Publishing (first published 2005) |
| Categories | : | Horror. Zombies. Fiction. Fantasy. European Literature. Swedish Literature |
John Ajvide Lindqvist
Paperback | Pages: 384 pages Rating: 3.48 | 10213 Users | 1099 Reviews
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Exceptional, morbid, & even quite beautiful. This one forms a trifecta with two other grand titans of modern 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 "World War Z"... so that's quite a few there! For a snobby reader who adored the horror genre, I sure am blessed. The eeriness in this one raises hairs & activates them good ol' goosebumps. The relationships being tested as the natural boundaries of human existence is displaced for good makes the book unique and it is written in good taste, with fascinating stories that seem true--that the general existence of zombies is finally acknowledged in a book about the rising dead, that they exist in the same dimension, that they aren't a completely foreign concept by the residents handling the undead--this is uncommon and hardly ever done. This is gratifyingly un-gratuitous... a true triumph of the genre. What the overpraised novels "Cell" by Stephen King & "The Strain" by Guillermo Del Toro tried but ultimately failed to do: Thrill.
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| Original Title: | Hanteringen av odöda |
| ISBN: | 1847244130 (ISBN13: 9781847244130) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | Gustav Mahler, David Zetterberg |
| Setting: | Stockholm(Sweden) |
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Ratings: 3.48 From 10213 Users | 1099 ReviewsWrite-Up Out Of Books Handling the Undead
It took me a long time to get into this. I was expecting murderous zombies and plenty of action, but this book was more about the emotions of loss than the flesh hungry, risen dead. Once I came to terms with that fact I started to enjoy it more. Around the half way point I considered giving up but I decided to carry on and take it for what it is. This book is nothing life changing or spectacular but it's ok. I thought he did a good job of capturing grief and the speculation about why it was(B) 73% | More than SatisfactoryNotes: An interesting speculation, but its main characters are boring, it force-feeds sentiment and it ends without resolution.
Exceptional, morbid, & even quite beautiful. This one forms a trifecta with two other grand titans of modern 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 "World War Z"... so that's quite a few there! For a snobby reader who adored the horror genre, I sure am blessed.The eeriness in this one raises hairs & activates them good ol' goosebumps. The
A good horror story that lets you inside some interesting concept.After a freak eletric event, some people around the capital of Sweden start rising from their graves. But, if you think this is a zombie story you are correct, but not the kind of zombies you are used. This zombies do not feed on people but are just there. Some things start happening, like people getting tired around them, or able to talk to one another in their minds and even reading their emotions.But, afterwards, as the story
(B) 73% | More than SatisfactoryNotes: An interesting speculation, but its main characters are boring, it force-feeds sentiment and it ends without resolution.
Wow...this was not what I was expecting at all. I started reading this book knowing that it was about zombies but had no idea what the story would be like. This is a far cry from your average zombie story and there is very little violence or gore, the zombies here are mostly docile.Basically the book deals with the basic question "what if". What if the dead did come back? And more to the point, what if the recently dead came back, how would their loved one's feel? What if they seemed somewhat
This is my second reading of this book. Needless to say that I love it. I've enjoyed every book by John Ajvide that I've ever read. He's my favorite horror/suspense writer next to Stephen King. And like King, John's stories are widely varied, and I appreciate that in any author. He also brings life to his characters,so that I feel like I know them. I wish he wrote quicker, and that whoever translates from Swedish to English were much, much quicker. But, I'll admit that all that waiting makes it
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