Mysterious shells and crosses appear and you can begin to tally the number of times the house ‘creaks’ followed by someone wanting to get back in their sleeping bag. I Remember You is described by the times as being “A chiller-thriller of immense scariness… not to be read alone in the dark” and whilst it certainly sends little shivers down your back, the repetitive language and noticeable over-use of adverbs may leave you having to re-read paragraphs for fear of losing the point of the plot…Ĭhapter one begins with a young couple, Gardar and Katrin and their high-maintenance friend, Lif who temporarily move to an abandoned village in Westfjords in Iceland, in an attempt to renovate an old house into a tourist spot. The original cover allegedly scared fans so much that it had to be changed for the UK and American additions! There are numerous cover designs for this book.
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It is just one of the most enthralling pieces of literature I have ever set my eyes on, and it made a dude who hasnt read a book in 5 plus years read a book. The excerpts from the Encyclopedia Galactica. Then how it kind of just flips into the future with totally new characters that relate to the old ones. The idea that man has gathered so much data over the 12,000 year reign of the empire that they can use that data to accurately predict futures is just such solid foundation for a story. The theories of psychohistory are so well fleshed out they nearly sound like they could be a legitimate statistical mathematics. It just astounds me how a book written primarily though the 1940s is still SO relevant today. I cheered in some parts, out loud, over a book.lol. my mind was literally blown with every page turn. i looked up the plot and it sounded kind of interesting.Ī month goes by and i end up in the same book store to buy a magazine, and i saw the book again and i was like "screw it ill just buy it". anyways i was at the bookstore randomly with my girl last month and i see this book with a really intriguing cover, the foundation trilogy all in 750 pages, large hardcover book with gold pages and a built in bookmark. likely because i work IT and read all day on the PC. So I am not normally a reader, and by that i mean i have not sat down and read a book in like 5 years at least. There have been plenty of books I have put down for one reason or another in the past but I struggled with the decision to stop reading this one. All the responses said basically the same thing, if it’s making you unhappy then STOP reading! I made a post in one of my book Facebook groups and said I was struggling with finishing this particular book. I really didn’t like what I was reading (hearing.) Maybe I’ll get back to listening tomorrow, I thought. I was in the carline before picking my son up from school and I just couldn’t listen anymore. I made it to the hour and half mark and there was a really horrific description of violence against a woman and baby. The story is told from the young man’s point of view whose nickname is Demon and it’s a pretty gritty story from the start about a boy born to a mother on drugs and alcohol right on the kitchen floor of a ramshackle trailer. To be honest, I never read “David Copperfield,” but I was determined to read “Demon Copperhead.” I downloaded the audiobook and began. The book is described as a modern day retelling of Dickens’ “David Copperfield,” but set in rural Appalachia. If you don’t want to finish, you don’t have to! This is a lesson I had to remind myself of recently.īarbara Kingsolver’s latest book “Demon Copperhead” is highly acclaimed and a New York Times bestseller. Sometimes you start reading a book and you realize it’s just not for you. With the help of sun-kissed Eight Beaufort, who knows what Barrie wants before she knows herself, the last Watson heir starts to unravel her family's twisted secrets. But she finds a new kind of prison at her aunt’s South Carolina plantation instead-a prison guarded by an ancient spirit who long ago cursed one of the three founding families of Watson Island and gave the others magical gifts that became compulsions. Stuck with the ghosts of a generations-old feud and hunted by forces she cannot see, Barrie must find a way to break free of the family legacy. When her mother dies, Barrie promises to put some mileage on her stiletto heels. One ancient curse. All her life, Barrie Watson has been a virtual prisoner in the house where she lives with her shut-in mother. |