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A carregar... The Damnation Game (1985)por Clive Barker
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Adira ao LibraryThing para descobrir se irá gostar deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. Barker's self contained universes would be split into trilogies by other authors. Sometimes he manages to fill an entire world into the pages of a single book. Sometimes, like here, that universe is only half realized, and in trying to spread its wings beyond being just a horror story, it ultimately sinks the project. It could have been a much tighter written 300 page novel without losing anything at all. ( ) Not a bad book, this has Barker's flavour and that is a very good thing. I rated it three stars for the plot. It doesn't really... tell you anything, and the finale was very anticlimactic. Granted, this is a story from 1985 and as such started a lot of tropes that would be used later in other novels..... but this book just felt like it was missing something. Read at your own peril. There are better Barker books. La vida de Marty Strauss siempre ha estado gobernada por el azar. Ahora, por fin, la suerte se pone de su parte. Puesto en libertad condicional, se convierte en el guardaespaldas de Joseph Whitehead, uno de los hombres más ricos de Europa. Pero Whitehead también ha jugado con el azar; un juego antiquísimo que le ha proporcionado inmenso poder y riquezas, a cambio de su alma inmortal… Ahora las fuerzas contra las que jugó han vuelto para reclamar lo que es suyo. Fuerzas terroríficas, con el poder de resucitar a los muertos; Marty se encuentra atrapado entre sus jefes humanos y el mismo Infierno, y tiene que enfrentarse a una última partida desesperada… sem críticas | adicionar uma crítica
Chance had ruled Marty Strauss' life for as long as he could remember. Now at last luck was turning his way. Parolled from prison, he becomes bodyguard to Joseph Whitehead, one of the richest men in Europe. But Whitehead has also played with chance - an ancient game which gave him vast power and wealth, in exchange for his immortal soul. Now the forces he played against are back to claim what's theirs. Terryifying forces, with the power to raise the dead; and Marty is trapped between his human masters and Hell itself, with just one last, desperate game left to play... Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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