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Tiny balls twink pic7/5/2023 ![]() I selected this book because another reviewer had written that he thought Carrion Comfort was the best that Dan Simmons had penned. This really is not a book about vampires, per se, as we have come to think about them, but a variation on the theme and it was excellent. And, as I said in that review, it would have been my loss. So for whoever needs to see this, if you are sensitive to scenes depicting rape, this might not be a fun listen for you.Īs I said in my review of The Passage by Justin Cronin, had I known the book was about vampires, I would have taken a pass. None of the top reviews I read before purchasing this book mentioned these scenes, so I was not prepared. I stopped listening after this, I couldn't go further. Same thing, all how much the rapist was enjoying himself, how he got off on making her feel helpless, how she was nothing, and indeed this character was never even given a full name. The second scene with an airline attendant happened just a chapter later. The author described in detail her beautiful 15 year-old body, how good she felt to the rapist, etc. The first scene, which involved an underage teenage girl, took me off guard as it continued for what seemed like forever. As a sexual assault survivor, I would have liked to know this beforehand. The victims are completely throw-away characters and totally objectified. **This book contains extremely graphic descriptions of rape.** What's worse is that the scenes are mostly described from the rapist's point of view, and written as very sexy and pleasing to him. I won't wade in on the whole story, plenty of others have. Idk who needs to see this, but TRIGGER WARNING Saul's quest is about to reach its elusive object, drawing hunter and hunted alike into a struggle that will plumb the depths of mankind's attraction to violence, and determine the future of the world itself. ![]() But this reunion, something will go terribly wrong. Each year, three of the most powerful of this hidden order meet to discuss their ongoing campaign of induced bloodshed and deliberate destruction. Killing from a distance, and by darkly manipulative proxy, they are people with the psychic ability to "use" humans: read their minds, subjugate them to their wills, experience through their senses, feed off their emotions, force them to acts of unspeakable aggression. Until he rises to meet his fate and finds himself face to face with an evil far older, and far greater, than the Nazis themselves.Ĭompelled by the encounter to survive at all costs, so begins a journey that for Saul will span decades and cross continents, plunging into the darkest corners of 20th century history to reveal a secret society of beings who may often exist behind the world's most horrible and violent events. (David Morrell)Ĭaught behind the lines of Hitler's Final Solution, Saul Laski is one of the multitudes destined to die in the notorious Chelmno extermination camp. "One of the few major reinventions of the vampire concept, on a par with Jack Finney's Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Richard Matheson's I Am Legend, and Stephen King's Salem's Lot. Whenever I get asked the question Who's your favorite author? my answer is always Dan Simmons." (James Rollins) " Carrion Comfort is one of the scariest books ever written. A nightmarish chronicle of predator and prey that will shatter your world view forever. "Epic in scale and scope but intimately disturbing, Carrion Comfort spans the ages to rewrite history and tug at the very fabric of reality. " Carrion Comfort is one of the three greatest horror novels of the 20th century.
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