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by James Herbert | Horror | This book has not been rated.
ISBN: 0330376128 Global Overview for this book
ISBN: 0330376128 Global Overview for this book
Registered by moepmoep of Jockgrim, Rheinland-Pfalz Germany on 12/26/2006
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A book that starts in Hell has got to be expertly paced, and no-one has ever accused British King of Horror James Herbert of lacking any of those skills. Hardly has a damned soul agreed to an angelic offer he cannot refuse than Nicholas Dismas is limping down the mean streets of contemporary Brighton searching for a child who may not even exist. Nicholas has only one eye and is short, lame and hunchbacked; he finds himself living daily with the hatred a society obsessed with normality dishes out to those who cannot conform. This is a book about exploitation and prejudice which touches some raw nerves; it makes you think as well as making you shudder. Dismas--who feels sorry for himself but not too much of the time--is one of the more three-dimensional characters in Herbert's work, and his love for the tiny and beautiful Constance is genuinely touching while not entirely avoiding sentimentality. There is horror of a classic visceral kind here--one of Dismas's colleagues dies in a peculiarly vile fashion--and a nursing home turns out to contain a real heart of darkness, but the real horror is the shabby ways in which people treat each other. --Roz Kaveney --
A book that starts in Hell has got to be expertly paced, and no-one has ever accused British King of Horror James Herbert of lacking any of those skills. Hardly has a damned soul agreed to an angelic offer he cannot refuse than Nicholas Dismas is limping down the mean streets of contemporary Brighton searching for a child who may not even exist. Nicholas has only one eye and is short, lame and hunchbacked; he finds himself living daily with the hatred a society obsessed with normality dishes out to those who cannot conform. This is a book about exploitation and prejudice which touches some raw nerves; it makes you think as well as making you shudder. Dismas--who feels sorry for himself but not too much of the time--is one of the more three-dimensional characters in Herbert's work, and his love for the tiny and beautiful Constance is genuinely touching while not entirely avoiding sentimentality. There is horror of a classic visceral kind here--one of Dismas's colleagues dies in a peculiarly vile fashion--and a nursing home turns out to contain a real heart of darkness, but the real horror is the shabby ways in which people treat each other. --Roz Kaveney --
Journal Entry 2 by moepmoep at BCC Berliner Congress Center am Alexanderplatz in Mitte, Berlin Germany on Thursday, December 28, 2006
Released 17 yrs ago (12/28/2006 UTC) at BCC Berliner Congress Center am Alexanderplatz in Mitte, Berlin Germany
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one of several books released during the 23c3
one of several books released during the 23c3
Found the book on 23C3 and will re-release it in Cologne, once im back.
Journal Entry 4 by mutante at Innenstadt - Haltestelle Christophstr./Mediapark in Köln, Nordrhein-Westfalen Germany on Sunday, December 31, 2006
Released 17 yrs ago (12/31/2006 UTC) at Innenstadt - Haltestelle Christophstr./Mediapark in Köln, Nordrhein-Westfalen Germany
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Released in Cologne, Germany, KVB train station Christophstrasse on the escalators.
Released in Cologne, Germany, KVB train station Christophstrasse on the escalators.