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| Original Title: | Zombie |
| ISBN: | 0452275008 (ISBN13: 9780452275003) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Literary Awards: | Bram Stoker Award for Best Novel (1995) |
Joyce Carol Oates
Paperback | Pages: 181 pages Rating: 3.34 | 7902 Users | 1138 Reviews
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I HATED this book! It was excellently written and it did what it was supposed to do...it scared the crap out of me. This is a character study of a social deviant. I don't want to spoil this for anyone who reads it, so I won't give away the ending, but definitely not something you read while lying on the beach catching your tan. No escapism here. You come face to face with the evil and cunning of the sociopathic and psychotic mind. Be prepared to bathe in Dettol and then curl up in bed under the covers next to your favorite stuffed animal with your thumb in your mouth, your night light on and your mommy on the phone 'til you go to sleep when you finish reading it. Kudos to Joyce Carol Oates for what I consider a brave, realistic creepy and excellently executed foray into the criminal mind. But I still HATED it...in a good way.
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| Title | : | Zombie |
| Author | : | Joyce Carol Oates |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 181 pages |
| Published | : | September 1st 1996 by Plume (first published 1995) |
| Categories | : | Horror. Fiction. Mystery. Crime. Thriller |
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Ratings: 3.34 From 7902 Users | 1138 ReviewsWrite Up Based On Books Zombie
An unpleasant book, taking you, with absolute lack of Hanniballian romance, into the petty, insignificant mind of a serial killer. The main character only wants to dominate pretty men; he's as cheap and tiresome and disorganized and lame as a middle-aged guy leering at you in a Denny's. To destroy the romance of serial killing: it's like that scene in Sandman where Morpheus takes away the illusions at the "Cereal Convention," only the illusion is actually taken away, not handwaved as one ofThis book came to mind today as I was browsing a discussion thread titled, "Do you have to like the narrator to enjoy the book?" Quentin, the decidedly unlikeable narrator of Oates' 1995 novel Zombie, kidnaps young men, holds them captive in his house, and then applies an icepick to their brains in his quest to create the perfect zombie love slave. He isn't particularly adept with the pick. Young men die horribly, and there is a great deal of ugly, violent rape and worse. Quentin also seems to
I am afraid of Joyce Carol Oates. How did she ever think to write such a disturbing story? It's as if we were watching the most frightening Criminal Minds episode exclusively from the point of view of the obviously deranged stalker/serial killer/rapist and could not turn off the television. I am still shivering. And yet, I really liked this book.
This was a quick read, but that would be a strange reason for me not to connect that well with the book, since I've lionized more than a few novellas before, and in fact I've been keen on anthologies lately. The stream-of-consciousness style is not my cup of tea, and since many passages employed it that might be the most likely culprit. I've enjoyed more than a few works with very graphic gore, redolent with nightmarish visions of torture and corruption, and when done right the experience can
I HATED this book! It was excellently written and it did what it was supposed to do...it scared the crap out of me. This is a character study of a social deviant. I don't want to spoil this for anyone who reads it, so I won't give away the ending, but definitely not something you read while lying on the beach catching your tan. No escapism here. You come face to face with the evil and cunning of the sociopathic and psychotic mind. Be prepared to bathe in Dettol and then curl up in bed under the
This is perhaps as disturbing as it gets, while still actually being published by a publisher. Zombie is somewhat reminiscent of The Collector both in regards to the high quality quirky writing and the theme, but without the pretense of civilization and decency. The psycho point of view is just so... Perfect! And having just read one other Oates book before I really had no idea she was an author capable of writing something like this.
This fairly wretched novel is JCO shooting dead boys in a barrel. I dunno, it seems like taking the easy option to me - you takes your Jeffrey Dahmer (you remember him, he was a lonely boy who wanted a gay sex pet to do his every bidding, and he read a book on brain surgery and he thought that if you drilled the right hole in a man's head it would stop him from realising you were a dangerous psycho and leaving, so he practised on a few guys who unfortunately like died which was not Jeffrey's
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