A review by kperez
The Lake of the Dead by André Bjerke

4.0

This book was written in the 1940s, for people living in the 1940s. If you're the kind of person who needs super modern "girls get it done" characters, this isn't the book for you. Personally, I like to read old books because they're weird little windows to the past. The book is well translated, the lake and the cabin in the woods are creepy and atmospheric. The characters are old fashioned and the whole book played out in my head like an old melodramatic black and white movie. (which by the way, if you look online you can find the old Norwegian movie based on the book with subtitles. I haven't watched it yet. but I will!) I don't want to give anything away, but the ending of the book is like if Scooby-Doo was written by Freudian psychologists. The ending is one of those ones that will stay with me for a while, even when I forget the details of the book. It is also a book I could see myself revisiting from time to time when I've forgotten the detail and find it on my shelf.