I'm a terribly obsessive reader!

[holdwings]

The House of the Vampire (George Sylvester Viereck)

Hmm well now, this was an interesting read. I had intended to read it maybe on the plane to Japan but the obsessiveness in me won out and I read it right away. I had been hoping for something about a Vampire (hence the title) but got something altogether more sinister. I shalln't give away the

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[elleipsis]

Ambiguous endings, I'm never quite sure how I feel about those. Whilst I love carrying on the story in my head, expanding it beyond the original story ( which is in part perhaps why I love fanfiction so much), but I also like some kind of conclusion.

So when you say disturbing, what do you mean, if you can say without major plot spoilers? For instance, there is a book called Lovely Bones, which I read the first chapter of when I was 15, and I was disturbed enough to not want to touch it even now five years later?
Or morally intriguing, as in it raises issues that you haven't thought of?

[holdwings]

Hmm I'm debating how to say it without revealing the plot...
Its a take on idolism I suppose that I hadn't really thought of, the storyline follows a psychological/psychic path with smidgens of the occult thrown in perhaps? The interpretation I think is more down to the individual reader but personally it unnerved me more than disturbed me.

Also if you can think of any, I'd love to hear your recommendations ^_^

[mclaughing]

I looked into it because of you're little review here, and I'm pretty sure it's not my thing.

Looked like an interesting book. I'm just not sure it'd hook me.

[holdwings]

Hmm, well I felt the same way in the first chapter or so. It really depends, aside from the obvious draws its also a nicely written and fairly gentle book, in terms of its progression, that can be read in one evening.