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Carrion Comfort
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"If everyone could understand the working of a psychopath's mind, we undoubtedly would be closer to insanity ourselves."
Carrion Comfort focuses on a small group of the population who possess what they call the "Ability", which is the power to take over someone's mind and completely control them, and even prompt them to commit murder. It is proposed that this Ability has been present for years, with reference to the Holocaust as well as random murders of individuals. A small group come together with the intention of stopping a small group responsible for these awful actions.
First of all, this book is absolutely mammoth. My edition was nearly 800 pages with a teeny tiny font...I'm no stranger to big books, I am a King fan after all, but this one felt particularly long. Possibly because the story was so heavy and depressing at times, with no comedic relief or light moments! Nevertheless, it was a great book, intricately planned with awesome characters. Saul, Natalie and Rob Gentry were all solid protagonists, and likeable! Compare these to the "mind vampires" in the novel and there is no competition. The mind vampires are disgusting, vile, horrible, evil people. I've never encountered such hateful characters in all my reading days. Nothing redeemable about any of them!
The book itself was terrifying in parts. Some creepy, tense moments and horrifying characters. The premise that these individuals could control your mind and actions from a distance away is just...terrifying. That you could be used to commit someone else's horrible deeds is scary indeed. One compliment is also that this book is very unpredictable...I never saw anything coming, it keep surprising me over and over.
A complaint would be that the book did feel too long...did Simmons not hire an editor? This doesn't take away from the enjoyment of the book, but it could have done with some serious editing. I especially don't really enjoy "action" scenes where people are just running around for ages and hiding in different locations - this kind of thing is great for the big screen, but can be hard to follow when reading.
It's a complicated book to rate because some parts were 5 stars and some parts felt more like 3 stars...therefore I think an average of 4 stars is best! Highly recommend, but don't read if easily offended or if you're not a fan of gore and violence.
Carrion Comfort focuses on a small group of the population who possess what they call the "Ability", which is the power to take over someone's mind and completely control them, and even prompt them to commit murder. It is proposed that this Ability has been present for years, with reference to the Holocaust as well as random murders of individuals. A small group come together with the intention of stopping a small group responsible for these awful actions.
First of all, this book is absolutely mammoth. My edition was nearly 800 pages with a teeny tiny font...I'm no stranger to big books, I am a King fan after all, but this one felt particularly long. Possibly because the story was so heavy and depressing at times, with no comedic relief or light moments! Nevertheless, it was a great book, intricately planned with awesome characters. Saul, Natalie and Rob Gentry were all solid protagonists, and likeable! Compare these to the "mind vampires" in the novel and there is no competition. The mind vampires are disgusting, vile, horrible, evil people. I've never encountered such hateful characters in all my reading days. Nothing redeemable about any of them!
The book itself was terrifying in parts. Some creepy, tense moments and horrifying characters. The premise that these individuals could control your mind and actions from a distance away is just...terrifying. That you could be used to commit someone else's horrible deeds is scary indeed. One compliment is also that this book is very unpredictable...I never saw anything coming, it keep surprising me over and over.
A complaint would be that the book did feel too long...did Simmons not hire an editor? This doesn't take away from the enjoyment of the book, but it could have done with some serious editing. I especially don't really enjoy "action" scenes where people are just running around for ages and hiding in different locations - this kind of thing is great for the big screen, but can be hard to follow when reading.
It's a complicated book to rate because some parts were 5 stars and some parts felt more like 3 stars...therefore I think an average of 4 stars is best! Highly recommend, but don't read if easily offended or if you're not a fan of gore and violence.
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Dec 23, 2016 12:43PM
I've heard that before,that his books could do with some editing. That they are too detailed. Definitely going to read this in the future though!
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Iirc, he self-published this after it was sold and he had to buy it back from the publisher who couldn't be bothered to actually edit his book and just kept telling him to rework it for over a year. This was after he sold his first published novel, Song of Kali. So it wasn't edited by someone else as it should have been.He turned away from horror for a while because it stopped paying and he had quit his job to write full time, so he wrote Hyperion Cantos and won awards for those books.
