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Ladataan... FanglandTekijä: John Marks
   Ei tämänhetkisiä Keskustelu-viestiketjuja tästä kirjasta.  Natt90 | Mar 24, 2023 |    ) Chris.Wolak | Oct 13, 2022 | Evangeline Harker, with whom the book opens and closes, on the other hand, is not that interesting nor really that compelling a character and I don't think that her part of the account is really all that clear in the end. I will give Marks kudos for writing an unusual vampire story. His vampire is both amazing and despicable and amazingly despicable.  ) fuzzipueo | Apr 24, 2022 | This book was recommended to me as a retelling of Dracula. And in that, it was moderately successful. In fact, if you only take the parts that are the actual retelling, you have a pretty decent and interesting story. The twist on vampires was even crazy enough to work. Although, Mr. Cover Artist, if you're going to have fang marks on the cover, the vampires in the book should probably have fangs. Maybe wait to fire up the old Photoshop until you've read an ARC or something. The second half of the book picked up enough of a pace to keep me interested. The characters started sticking in my brain, and I started caring about them. Some of them even developed beyond two dimensions. Maybe. But I was getting into it. And then the ending came. I finished the book three minutes ago, and so help me if I don't want to punch a kitten in the face. I'm returning this one to the library and hoping that someone who can actually enjoy this will read it next. (  ) dcrampton | Apr 20, 2022 | The story unfolds to the reader in journal entries, letters and emails between the characters so is told in many voices. This technique often works but in this book it only adds to make the story a little disjointed. Fangland can best be described as Dracula dragged into the 21st century. The first quarter of this book started out with great promise and then, for me, it just started to run out of steam. The saving grace is that as a former 60 Minutes producer Marks does give the reader an intimate glance into the (possible) behind the scenes of a major news show. His tidbits of satire is what kept me reading to the end. (  ) ChristineEllei | Jul 14, 2015 | ei arvosteluja | lisää arvostelu
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Fantasy.
Fiction.
Horror.
Literature.
An acclaimed novelist and former 60 Minutes producer grandly reinvents the Dracula epic in the halls of a certain television newsmagazine In the annals of business trips gone horribly wrong, Evangeline Harker's journey to Romania on behalf of her employer, the popular television newsmagazine The Hour, deserves pride of place. Sent to Transylvania to scout out a possible story on a notorious Eastern European crime boss named Ion Torgu, she has found the true nature of Torgu's activities to be far more monstrous than anything her young journalist's mind could have imagined. The fact that her employer clearly won't get the segment it was hoping for is soon the very least of her concerns. Back in New York, Evangeline's disappearance causes an uproar at the office and a wave of guilt and recrimination. Then suddenly, several months later, she's heard from: miraculously, she's convalescing in a Transylvania monastery, her memory seemingly scrubbed. But then who was sending e-mails through her account to The Hour employees? And what are those great coffin-like boxes of objects delivered to the office in her name from the Old Country? And why does the show's sound system appear to be infected with some strange virus, an aural bug that coats all recordings in a faint background hiss that sounds like the chanting of...place-names? And what about the rumors that a correspondent has scored an interview with Torgu, here in New York, after all? As a very dark Old World atmosphere deepens in the halls of one of America's most trusted television programs, its employees are forced to confront a threat beyond their wildest imaginings, a threat that makes gossip about an impending corporate shakeup seem very quaint indeed. Written in the form of diary entries, e-mails, therapy journals, and other artifacts of early-twenty-first-century American professional-class life, compiled as an informal inquest by a very interested party, Fangland manages both to be a genuinely-in fact triumphantly-frightening vampire novel in the grand tradition and a, yes, biting commentary on the way we live and work now. Kirjastojen kuvailuja ei löytynyt. |
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