Gain Your Copy City Infernal (City Infernal, #1) Devised By Edward Lee Available Through Digital Format
ekstremalny od mistrze gatunku! Uwaga na przemoc, gore, okrucieństwo w każdej możliwej postaci, więc jeśli jesteś wrażliwy, jeśli nie lubisz takich książek, jeśli brzydzisz się bardzo, jeśli jesteś niepełnoletni, to nie ukrywam ta książka nie będzie dla Ciebie.
Kto z Edwardem Lee miał do czynienia nie raz lub nie dwa, ten wie, że jego powieści nie straszą, bo nie o to chodzi w horrorze ekstremalnym.
Ekstremum to konwencja, to pewien charakterystyczny schemat, w którym odnajdują się ci, którzy ten schemat doceniają,
A w piekle jak to w piekle, Czytelnik odnajdzie tu moc piekielnych obrzydliwości rodem z niepojętych obrazów Hieronima Boscha, Całą galerię niewyobrażalnych istot, które przemierzają ulice piekielnego miasta, oddając się perwersjom, które nie mieszczą się w głowie.
Obrazy z najgorszych lęków i koszmarów, które działają na wyobraźnię lepiej niż jakikolwiek opis piekła do tej pory.
Miłośnicy prozy Lee w tym również wielu z Was, którzy już Miasto piekielne” mają za sobą twierdzą, że to książka niemal lekka i bardzo przyjemna jak na tego autora.
I coś w tym jest! W Mieście piekielnym” Lee obrał konwencję powieści z motywem niemal młodzieżowym dziewczęca i wyjątkowa bohaterka stawia czoła samemu piekłu.
Odnajduje w sobie niepojęte pokłady siły i odradza się na nowo już nie jako nieświadoma, niewinna dziewczynka, ale młoda kobieta, której nie pokona żaden strach.
Żaden demon.
Miasto piekielne” to Edward Lee w pigułce ta powieść świetnie ukazuje najważniejsze motywy, które można odnaleźć w jego prozie.
Czytelnik odnajdzie tu przerysowany horror, hiperbolę przemocy, white trash gothic, czyli gotyk amerykańskich wieśniaków”, ale także humor i element fantastycznej niesamowitości.
Wszystko wyważone, z lekkim przymrużeniem oka, tak jak tylko Lee potrafi, jednak bez skrajnej ekstremy w ekstremie jeśli można tak to ująć.
Największe wrażenie robi tu wyobraźnia autora względem samego piekła, Jego Mefistopolis to wielka aglomeracja miejska, z pełną infrastrukturą, z całym demonicznym rozgardiaszem od spotworniałych przedmieść i skażonych zaułków po bogate dzielnice, tych bardziej cenionych obywateli z samym Lucyferem na czele.
Nie ma w tym żadnej pustej abstrakcji analogia miejska trafia do wyobraźni czytelnika, jest bardziej też zrozumiała i okazuje się o wiele bardziej wymowna od chociażby opisów piekielnych odmętów Dantego.
Dla miłośników prozy Lee Miasto piekielne” to prawdziwy smakołyk, dopracowany w każdym calu, Kto natomiast z Lee nie miał nigdy do czynienia, a czuje, że polubi właśnie takie klimaty, to może wskoczyć w jego prozę zaczynając własnie od Miasta piekielnego”.
A kto ma generalne wątpliwości, ale mimo wszystko chciałby spróbować swoich sił, to polecam na początek zbiór opowiadań Zaburzenia snu”, które Lee napisał ze śp.
Jackiem Ketchumem. Wszystko wtedy stanie się jasne, The only reason I read this book is because I ran into a friend at the library and she practically shoved it into my hands.
I had low expectations, but I must say I was very pleasantly surprised, The beginning was a bit strange but after Lissa offed herself, the story really picked up and I got attached to the characters.
I can't wait to read the sequel, Great read
What an imagination Mr Lee has, This book has it all demons, goth, trolls and so much more, Every page there was something you leaned about hell and the whole city, Loved cassie and her friends both living and dead, They were great and then the whole storyline, Full of twists and conspiracies that had you held in another world, So descriptive you felt like you weren't reading but watching it, and you were part of it all, A great read and definitely one to read, I bought "City Infernal" used through one of Amazon's shops after the ad in the back of another horror novel caught my eye.
I was intrigued by the idea of Hell as a city of horrors and curious as to how Lee would envision it.
I enjoyed the same idea in the novelization of the film "Constantine" and was looking for more,
Lee surprised me with a remarkably entertaining and frequently fresh look at an old subject what would Hell be like He creates a mythos around his Mephistopolis, the City of Hell, that I found compelling and absorbing.
At times unpleasant and sometimes so hyperbolic that it borders on the ridiculous though never quite getting there, the horrific City of Hell is something I envision in almost cartoon terms.
I could see an animated movie of this emerge quite easily, but not a live action film, This is a version of the Hell that should remain entirely in the realm of fantasy it is most enjoyable on those terms.
When I put the book down after finishing it it was hard to put it down before then, I immediately wanted more and went looking for the sequel.
That book was "Infernal Angel, " This hardcover is the Cemetery Dance edition, one ofand signed by Edward Lee,
“City Infernal” begins the Washington DC Goth Scene, We are introduced to Cassie and her hell bound sister Lissa We learn how Lissa commits suicide in front of Cassie, who goes on to blame herself.
After a few unsuccessful suicide attempts Cassies father, DC lawyer Bill Heydon, moves them to the country for a new beginning, His choice was less than perfect, There new house in the country is on a Deadpass aka s Gateway to Hell, With the help of her new friends, suicide teens who leave Hell through the Deadpass and crash in Cassies attic, she crosses over into Hell to find her sister.
The huge capital city of Hell itself, Mephistopolis, named for its founder, We Take the train, where we will ride with trolls, monsters and screaming women birthing ghastly offspring, And, under a gloriously bloodred sky, cross the River Styx, fetid and steaming with floating pieces of bodies, We see the PolterRats, BaphoRoaches, Excreworms and particularly the notorious GhorHounds, The entrance is in an old Southern mansion, from whose attic window you can peer into the technological marvels that Satan has constructed, including motels that stock “Gideon's Luciferic Bible”.
We Encounter another fallen but now repentant angel, Ezoriel, and finally face fearsome Satan himself,
The series:
City Infernal
Infernal Angel
House Infernal
Lucifers Lottery
These books are not for the squeamish.
There are scenes of torture, mutilation, horror and sexual deviance,
First in the series, Very imaginative. Severely messed up : I'm embarrassed by how much I enjoyed this
dumb book, It was a decadent, self indulgent experience akin to bingewatch that reality show about those guys getting killed by their pets, while eating deep fried crap and drinking beer for a full weekend.
Every now and then realizing how bad this is, while trying to ignore the shame of how much I'm liking it, and the guilt at knowing I would continue with it.
I don't know who to recommend it to, though,
Its full of unintentional cringeworthy scenes, and eyes turning situations, The characters aredimensional, with little to no development, It fails almost on everything else: It's not scary at all and the plot and plot twists are ridiculous, Whenever a character trait gets in the middle of the plot, that trait gets dumped just like that, Its full of Deus ex machina events, Its not a good story, but somehow the book is really fun, The pace is very fast, wich goes well with the book, Also the promise of the premise The gory adventures in hell is delivered abundantly, and early on, The descriptions of hell are super entertaining and gross, It's just easy, gratifying trash, I binge read the last half of the book untilam, and ended completely satisfied,
I suppose that if you like action/horror Bmovies, stuff about hell, gore, gothic teenagers and stuff like that, you will enjoy it a lot.
This is a really fun, really bad, but absolutely readable book, .