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CARRION COMFORT is just an incredible concept for a story (mind vampires) and how these characters interact and evolve throughout the book. A thrilling plot and intriguing locales keep the reader guessing until the end. BRAVO once again, Dan Simmons!!
Narrative 5/5Story 5/5 Amazing !!!This book is one of the best horror story , that I listened and read , ( when I couldn’t listen), this year.This is my first Dan Simmons books. He has created complexe and very vivid characters ,but I disliked almost all of them. The villains are powerful mind vampires, very racist, homophobic and misogynistic . They are living among the society, using and killing innocents bystanders for fun . The nice guys are , a Holocaust surviver , a sheriff, a vampire vict...
The book is well-written with some very convincing passages that describe the telepathic abilities of a special breed of vampires but it drags for the most part, it's just too damn long!I can handle long. IT by Stephen King is of similar length and that flew by, but this has crazy amounts of filler that are an effort to get through. As the story progresses it becomes more and more corny with lots of cheesey dialogue.The bad guys are pretty interesting and have such an ambivalent attitude to murd...
Mind penetrating psi vampires haunt humankind in the same year Simmons´ ingenious sci-fi fantasy milestone Hyperion was published and revolutionize the horror genre in the same way. King said that Simmons writes like a God and that he is a bit envious and what could exceed this quote? There is a handful of authors who unite the lucky combination of hard, lifelong perfecting their writing and talent and Simmons is in a league I find just some are coming close to. There may be authors just playing...
A monstrous tale of what people will do with ultimate power. An African American female photography student, a Concentration Camp survivor and an overweight Southern Sheriff find a common threat of what can only be called mind-rapists. A truly no holds barred look at evil by Simmons, and easily the most dark 'vampire' book I've ever read. Simmons goes all out to illustrate the nature of immortality and how it would drive people to the extremes to maintain it! 8 out of 12.
Exhibit C in "Authors Who Doodle"... In case you're interested, here's exhibit A and exhibit B.Carrion Comfort, Dan Simmons second novel, can be faulted for being overly long, needlessly complex and in dire need of a talented editor. Yet after I've said all that, it still remains one of the best horror novels of the second half of the 2oth century. The author has created a tense tale of mind control and the extremes of human corruption and power. While Simmons uses the term "Mind Vampires" fo...
"Saul shivered. Behind the calm voice and the human puppet was a man who had directly murdered scores - perhaps thousands - of human beings." The epic scope of The Eight.The gut clenching agony of Schindler’s List.The paranormal malevolence of Stephen King.Oh my friends, this was something special. An absolute Must Read for the Horror Fan. I will remember it always... and shudder."Winter is coming. And I am very, very hungry."
Carrion Comfort is a beast of a book. My copy clocks in at 800 pages, and to be fair to mr. Simmons he kept the pace burning throughout the whole text. There's much to enjoy in Carrion Comfort, and not the least of its good aspects is the premise. In this particular work Simmons tackles on one of the most famous horror creatures - the vampire. What makes it different from almost all other vampire ficton is his approach to the subject.Carrion Comfort is concerned with mind vampires, people who ca...
This book! *covers eyes* oh my god! I don't know how to feel about it. Dan Simmons is such a great writer and his imagination scares me, like really, really bad! The stuff in this book was CRAZY! I couldn't believe what I was reading. Sometimes I didn't even want to know where this story was going. But despite the horrific plot, one thing that Simmons does really well is character building and backstory. Natalie and Saul are so fleshed out, they feel like real people and you are genuinely invest...
Below review is from my first read. Five words that I never thought I would say: "Couldn't it have been longer?". Seriously, for someone who dreads a book that passes the 600 page mark, I should have been absolutely dying over this 900 page monster. But...This is one of those rare horror books that manages to maintain the suspense and horror over the course of the book. Long books often make it difficult for the author to maintain suspense without the story dragging (I'm totally looking at you S...
this is a briskly-paced supernatural thriller about mind control and controlling the world around us. it is also about as one-dimensional as they come, despite the potential of the multi-leveled subject matter and the breadth of the narrative (from World War 2 Germany to present-day Hollywood, and dozens of locales in between). the novel and several of the characters are obsessed with chess, which makes for some intriguing action. although it includes several wonderfully creepy set-pieces, overa...
UPDATE: $2.99 Kindle US today 9/29/20Loved it and hoping to do a reread on audio soon! Mel 🖤🐶🐺🐾
"I despair at the rise of modern violence. I truly give in to despair at times, that deep, futureless pit of despair which Hopkins called carrion comfort." 4.5 stars out of five. Carrion Comfort is a highly original, Bram Stoker award winning, action-horror. The plot centres around the battle between the forces of good and evil, in this case psychic, mind controlling vampires. Does that sound awesome or what?First off this book does have a glaring problem which prevented me giving it a full f
my list of 3 best vampire novels of 20 century:richard matheson's I AM LEGEND is the first, of coursesk's 'salem's lot and this bookperhaps i can add "interview with the vampire" onto it as well, but it's not horror to me :)
I like long books, and Carrion Comfort is very long. Clocking in at 886 pages, it isn't the longest I have read, either. The tiny typeface may have shortened the page count, though. I would love to find out the word count of this book. I say all this not to criticize the book (as you can see, I rated it 5 stars) but to explain why it took forever to read it.I almost dropped a star because there is some extraneous material here that could have been excised and the mind-blowing story would not hav...
I always hesitate to say a book is overlong. I read because I like knowing the deepest thoughts and motivations of the characters who populate my fiction. Books are meant to be longer, more in-depth experiences. There are thousands of studies that have been done on chapter and novel length, but the truth of the matter is: a reader only notices page count when the writing and/or story sucks. I find myself questioning whether or not I think a book is going on too long, I ask: Was I ever bored for
So I'm changing my final score on this novel from a solid 3 to a generous 4 stars, because the book was JUST THAT UNPREDICTABLE.That's an odd thing to say as a re-read, no?There's lots of places where the novel easily deserves a 5 star, just on reflection, alone, and since this came out nearly 30 years ago I'm not going to fuss too much over spoilers. Do You Like Chess?Then this novel is for you.Do you like mind-vampires that look, feel, and act like Donald Trump, Conservative Religious Nutsos,
Just finished reading Carrion Comfort (again), 30 years after first discovering this incredible work by Dan Simmons. After all this time, this classic horror tale is still as impactful as it was when I was just a young 22-year-old Marine, and this read just reaffirms its place as my second-favorite novel of all time. Carrion Comfort was, is, and always shall be a confirmed ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ read.
Carrion Comfort is a mess of a book. Not only are there evil, mind-controlling vampires, the things they do are just so ripe with evil. It's almost like they give evil a new name. Carrion Comfort's story is complex, and involves several parties. Not only are these parties involved in a bigger picture, but they also have their own stories and action. There really isn't a main character, but several main characters, and several minor characters. As far as main characters go, Saul was my definite f...
Well this was surprising. Dan Simmons is an author I've read before. His Hyperion books are truly amazing sci-fi. It seems Mr. Simmons also writes horror. Good horror.Saul Laski is a Jew trapped in the horror of Auschwitz. He has the unfortunate luck to run into SS Oberst von Borchert who has the ability to take over a person's mind and completely control them. Thus are we introduced to a rather interesting type of vampire- a "vampire" that feeds off controlling minds.The story then fast forward...