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A carregar... The Lair of the White Worm (original 1911; edição 1982)por Bram Stoker (Autor)
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Adira ao LibraryThing para descobrir se irá gostar deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. Having loved Dracula, I was eager to read "The Lair of the White Worm". To my disappointment, I found it intolerable and unreadable. I can see why, according to the Wikipedia page, it has been characterized as one of the worst works ever written. I almost always finish a work that I've started reading. Not this time. El villano de esta peculiar novela iniciática, escrita al parecer bajo el influjo de las drogas, es una gigantesca y primitiva entidad serpentiforme, que vive en un hediondo pozo a mil pies de profundidad en el antiguo emplazamiento de un templo pagano con claras reminiscencias de Machen. Pero esta singular criatura primigenia, que espera pacientemente completar su ancestral tarea destructiva, adopta la forma humana de la sinuosa y bella Lady Arabella, capaz de devorar hombres y fortunas con idéntica frialdad. El tema de la mujer demonio se desdobla así en el de la supervivencia del gran gusano prehistórico, una supervivencia verdaderamente monstruosa porque elimina la noción de tiempo, haciendo que todo sea posible, que todo se convierta en pesadilla. Lady Arabella es al mismo tiempo la Mujer y el Dragón del Apocalipsis, Eva y la Serpiente, y para que no haya dudas su principal antagonista se llama apropiadamente Adam. Well. I don't know what I was expecting, but it wasn't this. The white worm is not particularly scary, in my opinion, which is not usually a big deal. But when I add in the unnecessary, cruel, overt, baffling racism. And I mean "unnecessary" because the story line added NOTHING. It all just sort of fell apart for me. I kept reading because the writing wasn't awful and I wanted to know how in the world the author would end this thing. NOT recommended. sem críticas | adicionar uma crítica
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Classic Literature.
Fiction.
Horror.
HTML: The horror novel The Lair of the White Worm, also titled The Garden of Evil, was written by Bram Stoker, the creator of Dracula. Based in part on the Lambton Worm legend, it tells the story of Adam Salton who travels to England at his granduncle's behest in order to establish family ties. But once there Adam finds himself at the heart of strange and unaccountable developments. Ken Russell's made a film adaption in 1988, which quickly became a cult classic. .Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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