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Ghoul di Brian Keene
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Ghoul (edizione 2007)

di Brian Keene (Autore)

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June 1984. Timmy Graco is looking forward to summer vacation, taking it easy and hanging out with his buddies. Instead, his summer will be filled with terror in a life and death battle against a nightmarish creature that few believe even exists. Timmy has learned that the person who's been unearthing graves in the cemetery isn't a person at all. It's a thing. And it's hungry. And now it's after Timmy and his friends.… (altro)
Utente:LinBee83
Titolo:Ghoul
Autori:Brian Keene (Autore)
Info:Leisure Books (2007), Edition: First Edition, 341 pages
Collezioni:La tua biblioteca, In lettura, Da leggere
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Etichette:2010-2011, horror, monsters

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Three twelve-year-old boys that are looking forward to spending the summer in their hidden fort, doing what boys of that age do...eating junk food, reading comic books, and talking about girls. Things are right on plan until the boys are faced with having to battle monsters...both real life ones in their own homes and the ancient terror that has taken up residence in their town’s cemetery: a ghoul. I have always liked this type of horror because it’s such a definitive time in our lives. It's been many years, but I remember being twelve. Everything seemed larger than life, and even the smallest thing felt like the world as I knew it was surely going to end before I went to bed. At that age so much of our mortal existence depended on the adults in our lives. If something should have happened that you were sure was "Twilight Zone" fodder, something that threatened your stable young life, you could just tell the adults in your world that were surely put there to grant your every wish... (HA HA), and even though they never really believed it...they would try to make "IT" go away" and make you feel better. In horror stories the children are always to be believed, even if they tell their adults that there is a glowing, naked ghoul that is hell-bent on impregnating the women of the town...those that it isn't planning to have for lunch...in its lair right under the town's cemetery! That pretty much describes what the boys encountered in this story.... an overly excited, corpse-eating ghoul in the "home life" of two of our young protagonists, Doug and Barry. I won’t go into details because that’s for the reader to discover. You’ll go into this book expecting a "creature-feature" offering with only blood and carnage, but you will close the book with tears in your eyes and your heart torn in half. This author is very, very good at presenting this kind of story. He will take you on a journey with Ghoul, and it will be visceral, painful and emotional. If this is your first time with Brian Keene, consider this an amazing introduction to horror at its stellar best. ( )
  Carol420 | May 23, 2024 |
It has been a while since I've read one but it does seem like most horror authors have to put out at least one. I'm talking about the "coming of age" horror story. GHOUL is Keene's addition to that specific sub-genre.

Timmy, Barry and Doug all live in a small town and are looking forward to enjoying their summer vacation. Unfortunately though there is a ghoul imprisoned in the cemetery and he is accidentally released.

I'll admit that it does sound kind of cheesy but it does not read that way. Their summer's imaginative adventures slowly becomes a true life challenge. In addition to the horror of a ghoul, each child's personal family life of hardship is revealed to each other. And through that the novel's theme of family life is illustrated, maybe a bit heavy-handed. My only real negative was sort of along the same lines; the story is a bit to by-the-numbers. The details around the three main characters are different and more intense than what you would expect but the general direction of the story is a tad predictable. Keene is still great and a wonderful read but I would look elsewhere if you want to see him at his best. ( )
1 vota dagon12 | Jul 25, 2022 |
This was terrible. I've struggled to read the last few years and I thought if I read something easy, I could manage to finish it.

I did, and it was bad straight through.

Least I finished something finally. ( )
  JenelleB | Aug 23, 2021 |
REVIEWED: Ghoul
WRITTEN BY: Brian Keene
PUBLISHED: January, 2012

My first thought as I read this book was how formulaic it was. It read like every traditional horror movie of the eighties. But then Keene stepped past that - he took the plot and characters to places I didn't want to go, places that made me cringe as I read. The story follows three teenage boys - best friends - during a summer filled with dreams and monsters... both those monsters that are unnatural horrors and those waiting at home in the guise of family. Once I got into this book, I couldn't set it down - it owned my attention. The ending left me a bit unsatisfied, but it was honest. 'Nuff said.

Four out of Five stars ( )
1 vota Eric_J._Guignard | Jul 26, 2018 |
Leichenfresser ist mein erster Roman von Brian Keene. Der Klappentext des Romans sagt aus das man ihn in einem Zuge mir Stephen King, Dean Koontz oder auch Clive Barker nennen sollte. Die genannten 3 Autoren zählen definitiv zu den Schwergewichten im Horror-Genre, zumindest „Es“, „Carrie“, „Shining“, „Der Nebel“, „The green Mile“ und „Die Verurteilten“ kennt mit Sicherheit jeder da es auch teils sehr gute Verfilmungen dazu gibt. Nun also ein neuer Name in der Riege?

Im Sommer 1984 sind Timmy, Barry und Doug die besten Freunde die man sich als 12-jähriger nur wünschen kann. Sie verbringen den Sommer zusammen mit Abenteuer auf dem nahe gelegenen Friedhof und der Umgebung. Dann fällt den dreien aber auf dem Friedhof etwas auf. Manche Gräber scheinen in sich zusammen zu fallen. Zuerst wird dies alles als „normal“ abgetan, es passiert halt wenn sich der dortige Sarg setzt. So ganz können die drei es aber nicht direkt glauben und fangen an Nachforschungen anzustellen. Dann wird einer der drei von etwas, das unter der Erde scheinbar in Tunneln lebt, gekratzt. Von hier an nimmt das ganze seinen Lauf…

Brian Keene’s Roman erinnert mich doch sehr an „Es“ von Stephen King. Auch hier haben wir einige junge Leute, die etwas unheimliches Erleben, das ihnen kein Erwachsener jemals abkaufen würde. Die drei Jungs sind in einem Alter, in welchem sie langsam erwachsen werden und die Kindheit nach und nach hinter sich lassen. Dies ist in Leichenfresser ein großes Thema und ein guter Teil der Geschichte handelt von den dreien, und welche Probleme man als Jugendlicher so hat. Die Tragödien der Drei in ihrem zu Hause sind ebenso hart, wenn nicht härter wie mancher Horrorroman.

Die Zeit der 80er, in welcher die Handlung spielt, wird sehr gut eingefangen. Ich selbst kann mich noch schwach daran erinnern das ich damals auch viel mehr Spaß an solchen Dingen wie „Räuber und Gendarm“, Fahrradfahren irgendwo im Ort, Comics und so weiter hatte als es heute der Fall ist. Keene bringt diese Stimmung, und die damals Standard-Hobbies der Kinder sehr gut im Roman unter, inklusive der passenden Musik die dort gehört wird.

Mir hat der Roman sehr gut gefallen, bis auf ein paar kleine Kritikpunkte auf hohem Niveau. Teilweise waren mir die Beschreibungen der Tätigkeiten oder der Handlungsorte einfach zuviel. Die Story hat sich dadurch nur langsam entwickelt und kam scheinbar nicht weiter. Dadurch habe ich auch recht lange gebraucht, um in den Roman rein zu finden, aber das tut der Klasse keinen Abbruch. Leichenfresser ist ein klasse Roman, dem man anmerkt, das sich der Autor mit der Zeit beschäftigt hat und dieses auch sehr gut umsetzt sowie in die Story einbringt. ( )
  ThrillingBooks | Mar 13, 2018 |
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June 1984. Timmy Graco is looking forward to summer vacation, taking it easy and hanging out with his buddies. Instead, his summer will be filled with terror in a life and death battle against a nightmarish creature that few believe even exists. Timmy has learned that the person who's been unearthing graves in the cemetery isn't a person at all. It's a thing. And it's hungry. And now it's after Timmy and his friends.

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