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Ladataan... Night Film: A Novel (vuoden 2014 painos)Tekijä: Marisha Pessl (Tekijä)
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Ei tämänhetkisiä Keskustelu-viestiketjuja tästä kirjasta. Over a thousand pages long, but never ever a dull moment. I was completely captivated at page one. Didn't want to put it down, and couldn't wait to pick it up again. One of the darkest, yet most fascinating novels I've read in a good long time. (  ) kevinkevbo | Jul 14, 2023 |  Te lank. Storie onduidelik. Gedink dis horror en toe skielik verander alles. (  ) RULENE | Apr 29, 2023 | Wow! Outstanding! ** Spoiler Alert*** No major spoilers, but info about the ending. I've had this book setting on the bookshelf forever. When I purchased it, I was intrigued by the unique direction and style the writer took with this story, but never could seem to gather motivation to actually read it. On a mission to read all of the dust gatherers sitting on my shelves for years, I grabbed this one and prepared to moil through no matter what. To my immense surprise I loved it immediately! The articles, news clippings, medical records, photos, etc. give the story a very true crime feel. This lends an exciting and almost magical atmosphere to a story containing black magic, curses, mystery and an enigma of a man who supposedly orchestrates it all. The characters make, what's already a great book, even better. Each character has a story of their own, a mystery that unfolds as you read. Pessl managed to give each great character development, but never giving away to too much too soon. The pace of the story is spot on, a page turner, without the break neck speed of many thrillers, that leave you feeling like it was over too soon. A mystery, thriller, suspense, horror, drama, love story......this book is all of those at once. I didn't hate the open ending......I don't generally care for obscure meanings or ambiguous endings. I'm not a fan of symbolism or poetic prose. I prefer stories with transparent plots and closure upon the finale. However, for this story....it works beautifully.....nothing else would have sufficed. This is my first Pessl story, but certainly won't be my last. This is going on my shelf of favorites!! A 5 star read!!! ( ) Jfranklin592262 | Apr 28, 2023 | This book just blew me away. I read it in a day and then wanted to read it again. It has everything I've ever wanted in a story. I can't even express how wonderful it is. ( ) pagemother | Apr 5, 2023 | Way too long for the level of entertainment it provides. (  ) bradleyjrowen | Feb 19, 2023 |
 This book is like a big fun-house — Pessl lets you decide if you want to believe its magic. I probably won't remember all that much of the plot a few weeks from now and the characters are basically vehicles for an overarching idea more than anything else. But Marisha Pessl had an extremely cool and intricate idea for a novel, and ultimately it works. I was totally happy to sit in the darkness until the very last page, and I didn't move a muscle until the lights came up. By the time you’ve fallen halfway down this rabbit hole, the plot feels like an M.C. Escher nightmare about Edgar Allan Poe. What’s best, some of the folks whom Scott interviews tell such incantatory tales about Cordova’s grotesque antics that you’ll miss your subway stop, let dinner burn and start sleeping with the lights on.  Ms. Pessl seems to take it on faith that her readers will want more than the page provides. But that’s hardly guaranteed. This is a book that plods along for 500 pages without developing any momentum at all. It gathers steam only in a string of excitingly fake endings that contradict one another. Most of it is a halfhearted film noir pastiche with amusing period-piece characters (one is a perky hatcheck girl) and an array of different settings. But exploring them feels like roaming the endless domains of a video game, not like reading a book. PalkinnotDistinctionsNotable Lists
Fiction.
Literature.
Suspense.
Thriller.
HTML:NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR ? Cosmopolitan ? Kirkus Reviews ? BookPage A page-turning thriller for readers of Stephen King, Gillian Flynn, and Stieg Larsson, Night Film tells the haunting story of a journalist who becomes obsessed with the mysterious death of a troubled prodigy??the daughter of an iconic, reclusive filmmaker. On a damp October night, beautiful young Ashley Cordova is found dead in an abandoned warehouse in lower Manhattan. Though her death is ruled a suicide, veteran investigative journalist Scott McGrath suspects otherwise. As he probes the strange circumstances surrounding Ashley??s life and death, McGrath comes face-to-face with the legacy of her father: the legendary, reclusive cult-horror-film director Stanislas Cordova??a man who hasn??t been seen in public for more than thirty years. For McGrath, another death connected to this seemingly cursed family dynasty seems more than just a coincidence. Though much has been written about Cordova??s dark and unsettling films, very little is known about the man himself. Driven by revenge, curiosity, and a need for the truth, McGrath, with the aid of two strangers, is drawn deeper and deeper into Cordova??s eerie, hypnotic world. The last time he got close to exposing the director, McGrath lost his marriage and his career. This time he might lose even more. Night Film, the gorgeously written, spellbinding new novel by the dazzlingly inventive Marisha Pessl, will hold you in suspense until you turn the final page. Praise for Night Film ??Night Film has been precision-engineered to be read at high velocity, and its energy would be the envy of any summer blockbuster. Your average writer of thrillers should lust for Pessl??s deft touch with character.???Joe Hill, The New York Times Book Review ??Mysterious and even a little head-spinning, an amazing act of imagination.???Dean Baquet, The New York Times Book Review ??Maniacally clever . . . Cordova is a monomaniacal genius who creeps into the darkest crevices of the human psyche. . . . As a study of a great mythmaker, Night Film is an absorbing act of myth-making itself. . . . Dastardly fun . . . The plot feels like an M. C. Escher nightmare about Edgar Allan Poe. . . . You??ll miss your subway stop, let dinner burn and start sleeping with the lights on.???The Washington Post ??Haunting . . . a suspenseful, sprawling page-turner.???USA Today ??Entrancing and delightful . . . [a] whipsmart humdinger of a thriller . . . It feels, above all things, new.???The Boston Globe ??Gripping . . . a masterful puzzle . . . Pessl builds up real suspense.???Entertainment Weekly ??A very deeply imagined book . . . sprints to an ending that??s equal parts nagging and haunting: What lingers, beyond all the page-turning, is a density of possible clues that leaves you leafing backward, scanning fictional blog comments and newspaper clippings, positive there??s some secret detail that will snap everything into focus.???New York Kirjastojen kuvailuja ei löytynyt. |
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