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This book started off so promising--it was creepy in a science fictiony 1900 kind of way.
And then it got weird. Not science fiction weird. More like Carl Sagan narrating a tour of the universe as imagined by some guy in 1900. For chapters and chapters and chapters.
And then it goes back to part one, kind of. But now the terror is caused by something completely different.
All in just 186 pages.
WHY OH WHY is this book on the 1001 list?
And then it got weird. Not science fiction weird. More like Carl Sagan narrating a tour of the universe as imagined by some guy in 1900. For chapters and chapters and chapters.
And then it goes back to part one, kind of. But now the terror is caused by something completely different.
All in just 186 pages.
WHY OH WHY is this book on the 1001 list?
I was hoping this book would have the gothic feel of Bronte's Wuthering Heights or DuMaurier's Rebecca. I would have even enjoyed something slightly more supernatural, like Stoker's Dracula. Unfortunately for me though, this one feels much more like modern horror, and I just don't enjoy that genre.
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A good book. Probably an early example of the horror story.
Story written in 1908 about a recluse living in a house on the Borderland. The story is on the surface about a place that is built over a pit where swine like beast live. The man fights of the beast then has a couple of time travels where he visits his lost love and another where he sees the end of the world and solar system and another visit to his lost love. The message is turn from bestial lust (the pit) to the pure undemanding love of the virginal figure (the white sea). Two fishermen on a t
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Supposedly one of the predecessors of the modern horror genre. Parts of this were painfully boring. Then the middle part where the man fights off a swarm of some zombie-like pig-men monsters was legitimately terrifying. Then the end was painfully boring again. Long descriptions of flying through time and space became quite tedious.
Oct 20, 2010
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Jan 14, 2015
Sara
marked it as to-read
Feb 06, 2016
Soscha
marked it as to-read
Nov 16, 2016
Teresa Young
marked it as to-read
Dec 28, 2017
Jamie Barringer (Ravenmount)
marked it as 1001-tbr
Jan 13, 2018
Sorobai
marked it as to-read
