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I was so caught up in this book when I was about 16 years old (20 years ago) that I read it twice.. I never read things more than once! So when my niece's brthday came up - I knew I had to get it for her!


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Vampire Junction S P Somtow 9780812525960 Books Reviews

For anyone who loves blood and deep violence.
Also read John Skipp and Craig spector.
Somtow has a passionate approach to writing and a style that challenges you to pay attention. The writing is so vivid, so intense that I was completely caught up in it, and loved seeing new takes on Vlad the Impaler, Bram Stoker, etc. Everyone needs to visit the world of Timmy Valentine!
The analysis was dull and pretentious but his reminiscences were interesting. The other supporting characters, except for those closest to him Rudy, Maria and Carla, were at best annoyingly written.
This was the first book I ever threw in the bin. In fact, possibly the only one! I don't like throwing books away! Especially ones given to me.

But this book left me feeling sullied and disturbed. No doubt that is partly the author's intention - it is, after all, a horror story. But this was one of the first "splatterpunk" novels, filled with gratuitous violence and far too much sex and deviancy. All this is mixed in with a kind of musical snobbery - the author's other trade - which clearly seeks to lift the novel out of the gutter into something more literary, but in fact it just grates horribly.

There is also pop psychology. In fact the whole premise of the story revolves around some rather dubious pop psychology - and again that grates.

This is not a book I am proud to have read. One to studiously avoid.

(And yes, I know I will get some thumbs down for saying that - but if you do, I would appreciate a comment to explain why I am wrong!)
How I love this book! Resplendent with violent and sensual imagery, Timmy's story unfolds with a subtle and beautiful energy that often explodes into overpowering scenes of bizarre and telling wonder. With magisterial grace and ease Somtow creates as varied and interesting a cast as I've ever come across and tours them through one grand and disturbing scene after another. He sails into the distant path to reveal the beauty and awe of classic myth and for surreal horror probes a number of contemporary madhouses with manic glee and talent to burn. Somtow shines images onto the mind's eye like no other writer, here displaying them atop a convoluted storyline that joyously threatens to many times careen out of control before coming together in an absolutely unpredictable and bizarre finale. Rock concerts, pyromania, insatiable bloodlust, immortals, cinema-addiction, PIRATES! Believe me, this book contains worlds within wild worlds. And yes, you will find yourself madly conducting classical music when the odyssey is complete.
The book came in just a few days, plenty early for Christmas. And it was just as you described. Thank you so much!
I could not adjust the font size so good not read it. This review is not a critique of the book.
I was so caught up in this book when I was about 16 years old (20 years ago) that I read it twice.. I never read things more than once! So when my niece's brthday came up - I knew I had to get it for her!