I just finished reading Let The Right One In - maybe that would be more successful? It's a vampire book that gets to be shelved under Literature, the lucky sumbitch. And there's a fuck zombie. I highly recommend it; I'd already seen the movie, so a few deaths were spoilered, but the film definitely wasn't a carbon-copy adaptation. I was so glad to find a vampire book that wasn't fucking stupid.
John Ajvide Lindquist is only one of my absolute favorite authors ever. Want creepy monsters and creepier people? Then you must read. Not sure how many of the books have been translated into english (is Swedish, lol), but they're all worth reading.
Handling the Undead is a thoroughly unsettling book, for example, and deals with a modern society where the dead suddenly come back to life as mindless, stumbling (but mostly safe) zombies... and what the government does to handle the situation when the zombies just wants to go home.
I definitely saw Handling The Undead in the bookstore when I bought Let The Right One In. I really look forward to picking it up - and zombie stories aren't usually my cup of brains, but hey, as I've seen, dude can do horror well. And it's not glamorous torture-porn horror! There are incompetent murderers and farts of terror and general filth to be had. Plus metaphors and parallels drawn and other shit like that. I really respect someone who can write kids/teens without making them black-and-white authorial mouthpieces, too. TL;DR yay Lindquist
I am hesitant to rec a book I have not read personally, but, I have heard some good things about Charlie Higson's The Enemy--post-apoc zombie story, deals with kids, does not pull punches when it comes to killing children left and right, no romance. I keep meaning to get it, but it's never in my local store.
Also this may be the single greatest way of reviewing a book yet. God bless Soul Eater.
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John Ajvide Lindquist is only one of my absolute favorite authors ever. Want creepy monsters and creepier people? Then you must read. Not sure how many of the books have been translated into english (is Swedish, lol), but they're all worth reading.
Handling the Undead is a thoroughly unsettling book, for example, and deals with a modern society where the dead suddenly come back to life as mindless, stumbling (but mostly safe) zombies... and what the government does to handle the situation when the zombies just wants to go home.
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Also this may be the single greatest way of reviewing a book yet. God bless Soul Eater.
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