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Post by benedictjjones on Jun 25, 2012 23:45:02 GMT 1
i know i few of us have been reading this and i finished it tonight so thoughts and comments anyone???
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Post by Ray Cluley on Jun 26, 2012 13:23:28 GMT 1
I'm a bit wary - not read it yet, but whereas I liked Apartment, I wasn't so sure about Ritual.
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Post by benedictjjones on Jun 27, 2012 12:17:02 GMT 1
what was up with ritual? last days was the first of his i read and i thought it was brilliant, one of the better horror novels i have read in a long time.
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Post by Ray Cluley on Jun 27, 2012 16:46:41 GMT 1
I preferred one half to the other is all, whereas Apartment 16 I liked all the way through. I still enjoyed it, just not as much (and there was a description over two pages that bugged me with the overuse of the word 'wet', but that's just me being picky).
He can certainly do creepy - some pages (in both books) had a tension so taut the pages hummed!
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Post by karswell on Jun 27, 2012 20:52:08 GMT 1
The Ritual is definitely a book of two halves - but I loved them both. Incredibly tense and atmospheric. Last Days is brilliant - proper scary like, I honestly did have to put it down after one chapter. Adam Nevill knows how to tap into proper fear, to create the same type of emotional response a film does is no mean feat, but he can do it. I've read a lot of horror that I've enjoyed and appreciated but it's great to read something that really scares you - which is what it's all about surely?
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Post by benedictjjones on Jun 29, 2012 0:30:25 GMT 1
agreed rarely do i come across a book that generally creeped me out in parts.
without spoilers for those who haven't read it (look away now!) was it the bit in the house in London where you had to put it done Anthony??
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Post by Ray Cluley on Jun 29, 2012 10:18:18 GMT 1
Agreed regarding the scares - there were moments in Apartment 16 where I put it down too (mirror and thin things and such) but whilst I found The Ritual relentless and tense for most of it, I'm afraid I wasn't, er, afraid later.
I am looking forward to Last Days though - I find his style very cinematic, so this should be the perfect story for it.
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Post by benedictjjones on Jun 29, 2012 12:48:54 GMT 1
^agreed very cinematic in style - wonder if that's deliberate (i.e hoping for a film) or just his style!
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Post by karswell on Jun 29, 2012 20:57:11 GMT 1
@ben - yes, it was when Kyle watched the tapes of the London recording. Man, that was scary...
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Post by benedictjjones on Jun 30, 2012 11:28:12 GMT 1
^yep! had the house to my self and thought 'should i be readung this on my own' - which is something i rarely get with horror novels so really struck a chord as good writing.
thought the end was reminiscent of 'kill list', the scene underground against the cultists, except while in kill list the shadows and adrk hide a lot of what is happening Nevill makes you stare straight at the horror! which is in a way the stylistic conclusion as well as the end of the story - in that the horror starts ambiguously, then lurks in the shadows before being fully revealed in the final sequence.
loved the bit about the 30 years war - brilliant and put me in mind of black angel which also used that historical mileau
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