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Loading... Lilla stjärna (original 2010; edition 2010)by John Ajvide Lindqvist
Work detailsLittle Star by John Ajvide Lindqvist (2010)
None.  jan.fleming | May 2, 2013 |  Meh. This would've been a far better book if he'd skipped the preface, since that made the eventual outcome fairly obvious. Let the Right One In was a far superior work. This one had some good bits, but overall, I didn't feel that it brought anything new to the table. (  ) hairball | Mar 20, 2013 | Little Star is Lindqvist's most disturbing work in a while. It creeps up on you, and he does a great job bringing you along at his pace. This isn't King and his verbosity, Lindqvist has written this length because he needs you to understand. Difficult read, primarily because this is his least supernatural work, the most based in reality that makes it a tough read at times. But all in all easily his best book since Let the Right One In. (  ) erikschreppel | Dec 31, 2012 | Lindqvist is one of my favorite writers of all time. He has a way of writing horror stories that are slowly disturbing you as you read more, and are more horrific thinking back on it than when you are reading it. I also think he shows the human side of everything very well in his stories. This is a story about a failed artist couple. The man finds a baby in the woods, and while she is completely silent, she can sing or hum perfect notes. She grows up as a strange little girl. Very quiet, and without much understanding of the real world. This is because of her strange upbringing and because of who she is. The first part of the book is about her growing up, and the people around her discovering her true character. The second part shows how she connects to other young girls looking for something in life. The last part shows the terrible but inevitable conclusion of the story. This story is truly disturbing, mostly because the girls are not that abnormal. This isn't about supernatural monsters, but the monsters in us all. The written horrific events (trying not to spoil here) I found very disgusting, but they need to be there. Five out of five stars, and Lindqvist remains high on my list. (  ) divinenanny | Nov 9, 2012 | Read it and never be able to listen to ABBA's 'thank you for the music' the same way again. There is always a point in reading each Lindqvist book where I regret ever having started it but I cannot deny their effectiveness in horrifying me and making my skin crawl for weeks afterward. I suspect that I'm susceptible in part due to a shared 70s and 80s childhood and I suspect that goes double if you happened to be Swedish through that time. I'm struck each time by how well Lindqvist portrays the interactions of children and youth with each other and also the way in which he builds sympathy for frankly unsympathetic characters. I think it is this that sucks you so deeply into the stories so that even when the horror starts you cannot put the book down. I don't know that this is the definitive attempt to unravel the mystery of cold, calm-looking sociopaths and the people that follow them but I will admit that I was thinking throughout this book about the Charles Manson Helter Skelter murders, the Norwegian Breivik massacre and all those high school rampages. This is an author I would love to do a Q&A session with. In fact I'd love to find a book club willing to read it and talk about it. ( ) wodfest | Oct 25, 2012 | no reviews | add a review
No descriptions found. Rescuing and raising an abandoned baby girl in the woods, a man enters the child in a singing competition when she develops an astonishingly beautiful voice, a performance that leads to the girl's encounter with another youngster with whom she triggers a horrifying force.… (more) (summary from another edition) |
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Just to say with this fourth book John Ajvide Lindqvist has confirmed that he is up there among the best literary horror writers. The author has really got inside the mind of a depressed, angsty teenaged girl and with the disturbing cult aspect he shows how easily disaffected, socially isolated people can be drawn in where there is such a charismatic leader.
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