Dead Dot Com - Sam West
Well, ah....yeah that was a read and a half. It's full of violence and brutality, rape and gore. At first nothing seems to make sense and it's page after page of women being brutalized. You know how when you read something bad...but they did it really well? That's the kind of writing this book has. The story didn't capture me, didn't keep much of my attention, and my head reeled with "but why?" because even as a fan of gore and violence and all things spooky, I just didn't feel connected with this particular story. And this isn't saying anything against the author, like I said it's actually well written. At first it had me thinking this guy just has his jollies wrapped up in people being tortured. But you know, some people are just drawn to all things bad. That doesn't make them bad people, or bad writers, it just means their imaginations are a little different than the average persons would be. This is not a book for someone looking for a deep, in depth story with twists and turns and characters you want to cling to (mostly because half of them are dead within the first few pages of meeting them? I digress). This is a book to read for thrills, and to settle down for a read that's just going to churn your stomach. Not a bad book by any means, but certainly will have its niche audience. I commend the author on writing something that had me wanting to look away, if that was his intention, he certainly succeeded, good visuals, good...torture...scenes (I guess? How do you compliment someone writing a torture scene?), good book to just dive into for a night and let yourself be sickened and disturbed. I may dive into his other works to see if this sort of thing is a common theme with him, it probably is, and I'll probably once again settle in to bed and sip my tea while I read, just to be entertained for the night.
I suppose to wrap this up into a TLDR version: Good writing, lots of torture porn ahead. Don't read if you want heavy substance and less gore and rape and violence. Do read if you want to be disturbed and grossed out for a night.
Dead Dot Com has earned three out of five stars for me.
Well, ah....yeah that was a read and a half. It's full of violence and brutality, rape and gore. At first nothing seems to make sense and it's page after page of women being brutalized. You know how when you read something bad...but they did it really well? That's the kind of writing this book has. The story didn't capture me, didn't keep much of my attention, and my head reeled with "but why?" because even as a fan of gore and violence and all things spooky, I just didn't feel connected with this particular story. And this isn't saying anything against the author, like I said it's actually well written. At first it had me thinking this guy just has his jollies wrapped up in people being tortured. But you know, some people are just drawn to all things bad. That doesn't make them bad people, or bad writers, it just means their imaginations are a little different than the average persons would be. This is not a book for someone looking for a deep, in depth story with twists and turns and characters you want to cling to (mostly because half of them are dead within the first few pages of meeting them? I digress). This is a book to read for thrills, and to settle down for a read that's just going to churn your stomach. Not a bad book by any means, but certainly will have its niche audience. I commend the author on writing something that had me wanting to look away, if that was his intention, he certainly succeeded, good visuals, good...torture...scenes (I guess? How do you compliment someone writing a torture scene?), good book to just dive into for a night and let yourself be sickened and disturbed. I may dive into his other works to see if this sort of thing is a common theme with him, it probably is, and I'll probably once again settle in to bed and sip my tea while I read, just to be entertained for the night.
I suppose to wrap this up into a TLDR version: Good writing, lots of torture porn ahead. Don't read if you want heavy substance and less gore and rape and violence. Do read if you want to be disturbed and grossed out for a night.
Dead Dot Com has earned three out of five stars for me.
Comments
Post a Comment