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3.71 AVERAGE
3.71 AVERAGE
I really enjoyed this book, and would have given it five stars, except I just can't get over the way the author introduced Magda by spending two paragraphs talking about her breasts. It was awkward considering she was talking to her father at the time. It would have fit better to save it for her sex scene with Glenn.
Otherwise it was a great read and I finally understand everything that happened in the movie!
Otherwise it was a great read and I finally understand everything that happened in the movie!
mysterious
Far better than the Repairman Jack book "The Tomb" it pre-dates by a decade or so? Either way, except for the ever-so-slightly "iffy" end, this had some really nice back and forth and manipulations.
The Keep is a classic horror novel to say the least.published in the 1980s it sure has proved inspirational to a lot of horror novels in the later years.the story is gripping,yet the romance is a bit flawed.overall a good read.
adventurous
dark
informative
mysterious
sad
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Rating = 3.49 stars
This is a sort of Lovecraftian historical fiction, if you will. Or even if you won't.
Romania, 1941. The Nazis encounter an ancient entity almost as evil as themselves. Only a Jewish scholar and his daughter and a mysterious red-haired man can save them.
I liked this older work better than Wilson's Repairman Jack novels, which tend to be overlong and feel repetitive after you've read a few of them.
I did not like this book. You might think the combination of vampires and murderous Nazis would be tasty but it's just not. Maybe a lot of Nazis get killed but I couldn't muster a single "hell,yes!" or a "take that!".
The real good stuff didn't come until 85% on the kindle bar and by then I just didn't care. And it was quickly swallowed up by reams of exposition and oral history lessons by the good guy. I also found no point to the epilogue. The ending was fine without it.
The real good stuff didn't come until 85% on the kindle bar and by then I just didn't care. And it was quickly swallowed up by reams of exposition and oral history lessons by the good guy. I also found no point to the epilogue. The ending was fine without it.
I'm not much of a horror fan, so I'm surprised I liked this as much as I did. The story is an interesting take on the vampire legend, but not at all in the Stoker tradition. This variation would appeal more to fans of ancient aliens theories than to those of traditional vampire stories. It also has echoes of fantasy tales of good vs. evil (Tokien, et al.). What makes the story particularly interesting, though, is that Wilson takes what is, ultimately, a derivative idea and uses it to explore evil in a way that makes the reader a participant in the dialogue. Just as we watch one of the main characters struggle with the idea of fighting fire with fire, we realize that part of us enjoys seeing Nazis, especially the SS, suffer the same kind of fear and suffering they inflicted on so many others. At first, that enjoyment seems uncomplicated. Bad things happen to bad guys; it's kind of fun. But as the story continues, two things happen: first, we are forced to recognize that most people are not 100% "bad guys" or "good guys," and second, we see that even fairly solidly good people can be lured into evil by their own fears and weaknesses--and that includes us. Wilson makes his readers feel the temptation to use evil to fight evil. Sure, his example is over-the-top--it's a horror novel--but he makes the point very clearly that evil doesn't care about the morality of those it destroys and while the evil in this novel is supernatural, the lesson he teaches applies to real life as well. Lest I make it seem that this is some kind of heavy-handed moralistic fiction, let me be clear--all the philosophical content I'm on about here is inherent, not explicit. You can read this novel as a straight-forward horror novel and enjoy it very much. Although it is more than 30 years old, it has lost nothing over the years (in part due to its historical setting) and is well suited to today's reader.
Después de leer el libro me doy cuenta de que si hay una peli de terror si que le vendría bien un remake es The Keep
Here's where it all starts. It was interesting to go back and read about Glaeken in his prime after meeting him as an old man. F. Paul Wilson is pretty awesome. I know my reviews have been sparse lately, but sometimes I either like a thing or I don't I liked The Keep.