Book: Threshold
May. 20th, 2013 07:56 pmAuthor: Caitlín R Kiernan (![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
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Details: (c) Caitlín R Kiernan 2001; Pub ROC Horror 2001; ISBN 0-451-45858-3
Verdict: Threshold is very good, but too scary for me.
Reasons for reading it:rysmiel recommended it to me strongly, even knowing that I don't really read horror.
How it came into my hands: I bought it when I was visitingrysmiel in Montreal years ago, and then didn't get round to reading it because I kept looking at it and deciding I wasn't in the mood for horror. And then rysmiel saw it on my shelves and persuaded me again that it's worth reading even though it's scary.
( detailed review )
It's taken me a month to read Threshold, and it's not long, mainly because a lot of the time I just couldn't quite bring myself to pick it up and start thinking about such awful things. But if you like horror at all, it's a really good example of the genre, it's both genre-aware and very much in dialogue with the traditional horror tropes.
greygirlbeast)Details: (c) Caitlín R Kiernan 2001; Pub ROC Horror 2001; ISBN 0-451-45858-3
Verdict: Threshold is very good, but too scary for me.
Reasons for reading it:
rysmiel recommended it to me strongly, even knowing that I don't really read horror. How it came into my hands: I bought it when I was visiting
rysmiel in Montreal years ago, and then didn't get round to reading it because I kept looking at it and deciding I wasn't in the mood for horror. And then rysmiel saw it on my shelves and persuaded me again that it's worth reading even though it's scary.( detailed review )
It's taken me a month to read Threshold, and it's not long, mainly because a lot of the time I just couldn't quite bring myself to pick it up and start thinking about such awful things. But if you like horror at all, it's a really good example of the genre, it's both genre-aware and very much in dialogue with the traditional horror tropes.
