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Chargement... The Croning (2012)par Laird Barron
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. I've been waiting for this book to settle in my brain so I could give it the review it deserves but it just won't happen. This book was so many things; horror, time travel, a bit of science fiction, fantasy, even fairy tales. It's everything. And I loved it. It kept me up nights with its tension and gave me bad dreams to boot. And still I loved it. In terms of modern Lovecraftian horror, this is fairly unique. It Has the components of a family saga as well as a long term degenerates subtext. The pacing could do with some tightening and in places it became difficult to see how the story could progress. I think the author does capture the feeling of nihilism and despair that readers more familiar with the Carcosa mythos will understand. A trippy bit of cosmic horror. Well written with compelling characters. Got a bit bogged down in the middle, but the details added quite a bit to the main character's story. Couple of spoilers below. And of course I was happy that Thule made it out of there. At least I think he did. He was loyal and a good boy. Overall I really enjoyed this. There really aren't enough of these books out there. I'm really digging on this genre. 4-1/2 stars; almost gave it five stars but it was a little too derivative of [a:H.P. Lovecraft|9494|H.P. Lovecraft|https://d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net/authors/1299165714p2/9494.jpg]'s The Whisperer in Darkness so I subtracted half a star for lack of originality in plot. That said, it's like The Whisperer in Darkness on acid and speed. Some of the amnesia/flashback is a little hard to swallow but, hey, we're dealing with the supernatural here so let's not be too picky. The ending once again reminded me of [a:Michael Shea|7213910|Michael Shea|https://www.goodreads.com/assets/nophoto/user/u_50x66-d9f6a4a5badfda0f69e70cc94d962125.png]'s The Autopsy or that movie Fallen with Denzel Washington. Barron gets it on but with none of his wiggy philosophical enigma; we know what's goin' on here. The great thing about Barron now is he keeps mining the same vein/theme but in so many different ways. He's got his own Mythos going (I know I'm stretching it a bit) but he's upped the creep and despair factor since [b:The Imago Sequence and Other Stories|911954|The Imago Sequence and Other Stories|Laird Barron|https://d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net/books/1391343266s/911954.jpg|897056] with more solid endings that are just going to make you wonder if he doesn't know something about the universe that we don't. Barron has now shown he can go the distance in story, novella, and novel. He should be better known.
Barron has studied the work of his predecessors well; already acknowledged a master of the horror short story, he shows himself equally skilled at novel-length work.
"Strange things exist on the periphery of our existence, haunting us from the darkness looming beyond our firelight. Black magic, weird cults and worse things loom in the shadows. The Children of Old Leech have been with us from time immemorial. And they love us. Donald Miller, geologist and academic, has walked along the edge of a chasm for most of his nearly eighty years, leading a charmed life between endearing absent-mindedness and sanity-shattering realization. Now, all things must converge. Donald will discover the dark secrets along the edges, unearthing savage truths about his wife Michelle, their adult twins, and all he knows and trusts. For Donald is about to stumble on the secret of The Croning."-- Provided by publisher. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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