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Apartamento 16 (2010)

by Adam Nevill(Favorite Author)

3.04 of 5 Votes: 1

languge

English

genre

Horror

publisher

Minotauro

review 1: When I started reading, I thought this was going to be a typical British haunted house story. It turned out not to be, the plot is closer to the plots seen in H. P. Lovecraft than Henry James, Edith Wharton or Wilkie Collins. Barrington House is not the Bramford, and yet it does have something in common with the building where Guy and Rosemary Woodhouse started their family planning. It is not Bly House and there are no children being threatened by vengeful spirits....and yet some elements of Bly House are duplicated in Barrington House. Still, it was an entertaining read, with plenty of suspense and enough foreshadowing that you get a dread chill down your spine when you suspect the real goings-on in the story. A few chapters were a little to tripped out for me, but ... moreonce I waded through them it was pretty smooth sailing.I am liking Adam Nevill's writing very much. Have started The House of Small Shadows now, which seems to be more to my taste; I adore an author who seems to have as much love for Victorian architectural details as I do. The blurbs are hailing him as "Britain's Answer to Stephen King". That makes me cringe and I almost didn't read the book because of it. However, I was so pleasantly surprised! Nevill was born in 1969, so all the tiresome baby boomer references, worship for everything that happened in the '60's and love of tired out counter-culture music is absent. Hooray!!!!I will be reading all of Nevill's books in the future.
review 2: I read the German translation of the book and I have to say that the proofreader/translator did a pretty lousy job. There were too many typos for my liking, which really impaired the reading pleasure for me. Other than that, the book exuded a really negative energy I found it hard to escape. I am glad I've finished the book and don't have to deal with it anymore. Also, as an overweight person I found the frequent fat-bashing/hating as well as misogynistic and sometimes racist passages unacceptable. The tone of the book is pretty hateful and it is filled with violence and gore, which makes me wonder what kind of person the author is... not somebody I'd like to meet for sure. less

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