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Traummörder (2000)

by Shane Briant(Favorite Author)

3.48 of 5 Votes: 4

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review 1: First off, this was a $1.00 book at a more or less cheap supermarket. I was immediately interested in the cover and the information given on the back. When I began reading it though, I was impressed, interested, ready to read more. That is until I got deeper.... and deeper.... and deeper.... into the book. Around page 285 I made a "startling" discovery. ItWasBORINGNo, the nightmares listed in the first 100 pages were interesting, that's what made me read more. The discoveries of these murder sites were exciting... I continued. It wasn't until it went into an extra long, extra drawn out length to explain why this guy was screwed. No, I already got that. He plagiarized work (the character, NOT Shane Briant!!!!) Anyway, the guy took this dead man's manuscript, wrote it in his... more own words and took all the glory for himself. Maybe that was sort of why I resented the book. Not only did it bore me to stopping mid-way through, but the thought of that he took someone else's work and wrote it as his sort of irritated me. I do understand that this was all necessary for the plot, if it wasn't for this well it might have been better. I think Shane Briant could have written his story with something extra. I don't know, the thought of plagiarism in the story and the fact that it no longer mentioned the Dream Healer after a certain point (I was interested in his chapters, they were actually interesting)it became incredibly hard for me to continue.If I had the chance to change this book, I would:Add chapters that involved more deaths along the story of plagiarism and gave the main character, Dermot Nolan a total makeover. He was so upset, grumpy, mean in the story due to stress that sort of killed everyone's mood. Didn't like that..In the end I will be moving on to something else, I do not think I will continue this one.
review 2: I thought the premise of this was interesting; a writer, currently suffering writer's block, receives a strange manuscript/memoir on his front door. He ends up "borrowing" the ideas for his own book, while researching the events depicted in the memoir. Turns out, the book may be completely true and if so, there's some crazy guy killing people by taking advantage of their nightmares.About 80 pages in, I figured out who was killing people and I had a pretty good idea why. I skipped ahead, confirmed my suspicions, and put the book down. Avoid. It's not scary. It's not suspenseful. It's not even "horrifying". less

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