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Peklo (2009)

by Robert Olen Butler(Favorite Author)

3.37 of 5 Votes: 3

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English

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Horror

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review 1: When I invest time to read a book I feel I have the right to demand certain expectations from the author, not many, essentially only two. One is the idea that the author structures the work along certain understandable premises of plot, character arc, conflict resolution etc. The other is I believe, there should be an attempt to meet a minimum standard of communication with readers that move along certain language commonalities that register recognition beyond those relevance’s singularly contained within the author’s mind. “Hell” a work of fantasy by Robert Olen Butler, is the author’s rendition of after life existence in the land of Hades, meets none of this criteria. The reader is plunged headlong into a somewhat technologically advanced albeit equally tort... moreurous Hell, by the rather bizarre yet sympathetic character Hatcher McCord. Mr. McCord apparently is re-launching his journalism career as the anchor for the televised Hell Report; his revival will of course be an eternal effort in the here after. His main reporting “scoop” will be to interview Hell’s celebrity residents. Between the pages of “Hell”, the author introduces many of Hell’s celebrities; of course the expected nefarious cast of the damned are present…Satan, his V.P. Beelzebub, Hitler, Joe Stalin, Tricky Dick Nixon and others. But curiously there are also some unexpected residents, namely Bogie & Bacall and Jerry Seinfeld??? , Be advised “Hell” is NOT an easy read, as a matter of fact my only other similar reading experience has come from William S. Burroughs “Naked Lunch” minus the drug induced prose. Make no mistake; author Butler frequently abandons readers throughout the book with a series of bizarre soliloquies, drifting into internal “stream of consciousness” writing, which as I’ve mentioned seems to only have relevance between the ears of the author. In the end author Butler fails miserably in resolving any of the questions or issues that he poses to the reader numerous times throughout the book, namely: Why has Hatcher, as well as the other characters, found themselves in Hell? Was Hatcher able to escape Hell? Has he reconciled his mortal human behaviors to earn his exit from Hell? Or is this book simply another literary attempt expressing a deeply nihilistic philosophy about human nature in general, where the only real answer is that we are all already damned
review 2: Uzun zamandır istediğim fantastik öğelerle özellikle şu anda okuduğum İlahi Komedya ile "cehennem" olgusunu karşılaştırmam gerekirse tam anlamıyla bu yüzyılın cin esprileriyle dolu bir kitap. Zaman zaman doğal olarak cehennemin karamsarlığıyla karşılaşsak da Anne Boleyn, Lucifer, Lilith, Kral Henry gibi karakterleri gördükçe ayrıca bir hoşuma gitti. Kitap genel olarak "karma" anlayıştaki bir cehennem. O yüzden yeterli yalnızca sonu biraz düşük geldi o kadar. Fantastik kara mizah severlere zevkle öneririm. less

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