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  • Taschenbuch: 800 Seiten
  • Verlag: Griffin; Auflage: St Martin's Gri. (24. November 2009)
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • ISBN-10: 0312567073
  • ISBN-13: 978-0312567071
  • Größe und/oder Gewicht: 21 x 14 x 3,8 cm
  • Durchschnittliche Kundenbewertung: 4.2 von 5 Sternen  Alle Rezensionen anzeigen (44 Kundenrezensionen)
  • Amazon.de Verkaufsrang: Nr. 26.468 in Englische Bücher (Die Bestseller Englische Bücher)

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The second novel by World Fantasy Award-winner Simmons ( The Song of Kali ) is a 636-page epic that draws on a variety of genres--horror, science fiction, political thriller, Hollywood roman a clef. It centers around a small number of "mind vampires" who can subjugate other people to their wills, read their minds, experience through their senses. The immensely powerful vampires use others, often bloodily, and often in frivolous "games" (hunting human prey, chess games with human pieces, and so on). Opposing them are Saul Laski, a psychologist and concentration-camp survivor, who is devoted to tracking down the Nazi vampire von Borchert; Natalie Preston, whose father inadvertently and fatally crossed the path of a pawn of the ancient, dotty vampire Melanie Fuller; Sheriff Bobby Joe Gentry, dragged in while investigating the multiple murders that marked the departure of Melanie Fuller from Charleston; and a host of other normals and vampires whose lives impinge on those of the principals. While he could profitably have trimmed the novel by a third, Simmons has produced, overall, a compelling thriller.
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Kurzbeschreibung

“CARRION COMFORT is one of the three greatest horror novels of the 20th century. Simple as that.” --Stephen King

"Epic in scale and scope but intimately disturbing, CARRION COMFORT spans the ages to rewrite history and tug at the very fabric of reality. A nightmarish chronicle of predator and prey that will shatter your world view forever.  A true classic." --Guillermo del Toro

"CARRION COMFORT is one of the scariest books ever written.  Whenever I get the question asked Who's your favorite author? my answer is always Dan Simmons." --James Rollins

"One of the few major reinventions of the vampire concept, on a par with Jack Finney’s Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Richard Matheson’s I Am Legend, and Stephen King’s Salem’s Lot. --David Morrell

THE PAST...  Caught behind the lines of Hitler’s Final Solution, Saul Laski is one of the multitudes destined to die in the notorious Chelmno extermination camp.  Until he rises to meet his fate and finds himself face to face with an evil far older, and far greater, than the Nazi’s themselves…

THE PRESENT...  Compelled by the encounter to survive at all costs, so begins a journey that for Saul will span decades and cross continents, plunging into the darkest corners of 20th century history to reveal a secret society of beings who may often exist behind the world's most horrible and violent events.  Killing from a distance, and by darkly manipulative proxy, they are people with the psychic ability to 'use' humans: read their minds, subjugate them to their wills, experience through their senses, feed off their emotions, force them to acts of unspeakable aggression.  Each year, three of the most powerful of this hidden order meet to discuss their ongoing campaign of induced bloodshed and deliberate destruction.  But this reunion, something will go terribly wrong. Saul’s quest is about to reach its elusive object, drawing hunter and hunted alike into a struggle that will plumb the depths of mankind’s attraction to violence, and determine the future of the world itself…


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1 von 1 Kunden fanden die folgende Rezension hilfreich:
4.0 von 5 Sternen DREAM DREAM DREAM..., 17. Juni 2000
Diese Rezension stammt von: Carrion Comfort (Taschenbuch)
Everyone has had once this phantasm or dream : to be able to control others to make them do everything we want them to do. This phantasm is generally produced by a sexual pulsion or aggressivity ; who could say that he hasn't mentally murdered a rather important number of people in his life ? At least, not I.

The heroes of Dan Simmons's CARRION COMFORT do have this power. And not during their sleep. They really do what you have always dreamt to do. Without an ounce of shame or guiltiness because it appears that they haven't read Sigmund Freud's THE INTERPRETATION OF DREAMS !

But Willy, Nina and Melanie are quickly bored by their first essays and are now attracted and blinded by the power conferred to them by their gift. Then begins the Game.

The first part of CARRION COMFORT is really scary with the description of the mind manipulations invented by these new vampires. The uneasiness you're about to feel is aggravated by the fact that Dan Simmons chose to present, every 50 pages, the point of view of Melanie, one of the actors of the game. Through these pages, you will feel like entering the mind of a psychopath ; every murder committed by the old lady is justified by numerous reasons Melanie exposes patiently to the hypnotized reader. Soon, you are going to pray for the chapter to end so that you can return to the objective point of view of the good heroes of CARRION COMFORT.

The second part of the book was, in my opinion, not at the level of the first part, Dan Simmons using too many pages to give scientific explanations in order to give CARRION COMFORT the status of a violent thriller rather than a fantastic book.

Anyway, I warmly recommend this 900 pages production.

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4.0 von 5 Sternen Great writing, fine plotting, but looooooong, 16. Juni 2000
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I haven't read anything by Dan Simmons since The Rise of Endymion, over 6 months ago. I decided to read Carrion Comfort in an impulse - I was curious as to how good his horror will be.

in the first 300 pages I was enchanted, and I asked myself frenzily "How come I haven't read anything by Simmons for so long?"

by page 400 I knew the answer. Because it's sooo loooong.

Now don't get me wrong, Simmons is a hell of a writer. Many scenes in this book are really tense. The characters are vary between ok to great (most of them),and no stickers. The action is often exciting...

But there is so much of it! around page 350, Simmons starts a huge sub plot about a gang war and a haunted house(kind of). The subplot doesn't really go anywhere, except that it kills a bunch of people, and substitutes them with some other people.

Simmons is the writer most need of an editor that I know of. This could have been a Thriller masterpiece. Had it been 700 pages long, it would have stood there next to 'Red Dragon' and 'The Silence of the Lambs' by Thomas Harris.

Rather it is 992 pages long( british mass market paperback), it's a really good book, and a one that you would enjoy reading. It has some minor flaws other than the length, but it is really well done. It has the spookiest chess scene I've ever read, and quiet enough original ideas to keep this a truly original Thriller.

Dan Simmons wrote a Science Fiction masterwork with Hyperion, and now he came very close to writing a thriller masterwork. That's quite an achievement.

If you're looking for a good horror-thriller, with some mind candy and lots of action and obscenitites and sex, this is a great choice.

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5.0 von 5 Sternen Horror as courtship material, 31. Juli 2000
Diese Rezension stammt von: Carrion Comfort (Taschenbuch)
The first time I spoke to the woman who was to become my wife, I offered to lend her my copy of "Carrion Comfort". We still have that copy. It is well-thumbed. It is tatty, tiired, falling to bits. Every year, I read it. Every year, she grabs it off me, and reads it herself. Simmons has written two perfect novels: "Carrion Comfort" and "Hyperion". The rest of his work (which also takes pride of place in my bookshelf) is merely extraordinarily good. Dan, if you're ever in Taupo for some of the finest trout fishing in the world.. drop by and see me. I generally have a coldie in the 'fridge.
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5.0 von 5 Sternen Dan Simmons at his best!
Mir wurde das Buch vor einigen Jahren von einem Freund empfohlen. Es hat mich unheimlich gefesselt und ich lese es jedes Jahr auf's neue. Lesen Sie weiter...
Vor 3 Monaten von C. Goetz veröffentlicht

1.0 von 5 Sternen Dull And Dragging Would-Be Horror
"Mind Vampires" who can influence other people fight among themselves about who should rule them and how they should use their powers. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 16. Juli 2002 von monice

1.0 von 5 Sternen Langweilig und vorhersehbar
Selten habe ich mich durch ein Buch gequält, das langweiliger war: Die Figuren blieben flach, die Story war vorhersehbar und das Ende war dermaßen konventionell, dass man das Buch... Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 17. Juli 2000 veröffentlicht

5.0 von 5 Sternen What a Great Book!
Have you ever pickd up a big fat book that is good from the first page to the last? Carrion Comfort was that book for me. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 25. Mai 2000 von Pam from Texas

5.0 von 5 Sternen Big action packed epic horror
This is an epic horror novel. A rare genre that has some of my favorite books in it: Stephen King's The Stand, Clive Barker's Imajica, and Robert R. McCammon's Swan Song. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 12. Mai 2000 von Matt C. Stedman

5.0 von 5 Sternen This book is a comfort
I consider Carrion Comfort to be one of Simmon's best. The idea of psychic vampires, who can control others with a thought. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 12. April 2000 von Mistrmind

5.0 von 5 Sternen Simmons sets a new standard - again
The first Simmons I read set me on his trail from page one. "Carrion Comfort" is a monumental piece of fiction and one of the very best books I ever read. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 26. Februar 2000 von Ard

4.0 von 5 Sternen A bit too long
This was a good book that could have been great if it had been about two or three-hundred pages shorter. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 19. Februar 2000 von Laura Hodge

5.0 von 5 Sternen Ignore the naysayers - CARRION COMFORT is amazing.
I am amazed to find that there is such a schism regarding CARRION COMFORT. It seems to be a real love/hate book. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 5. Januar 2000 von David Brazil

5.0 von 5 Sternen frighteningly believable
i really enoyed carrion comfort. it makes the reader think, that there possibly could be people like melanie, willi, nina, arnold barent, tony harod, and james sutter. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 31. Dezember 1999 von vincent wieselquist

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