Land of the Living (What Next)

Essentially Harding puts the question: This is of course a subject much in fashion, for it is now assumed that anyone who has been in a war zone and seen, done or suffered terrible things is a candidate for what we have learned to call post-traumatic stress disorder.

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• About Land of the Living.

We know much more about the workings of the mind and the tricks it can play than was the case when men returned from horrors such as the war against Japan. Looking back now, what is remarkable is how many apparently managed to shrug this off and resume their lives as if the war had never been. Perhaps there is something to be said for suppressing memory — suppressing not of course being the same thing as repressing, the former silently acknowledging what the latter attempts to deny.

Harding has a keen eye and sense of place. Remarkably her evocation of Nagaland is as convincing as her picture of Norfolk. Starry-eyed and wistful pop-punk single about falling in love with heavenly bodies. With a serious hat tip to The Cramps, this is some of the loudest, bass-heavy rock coming out of Japan. These guys and gal are phenomenal. I just saw they live for first time Alex's Bar-Long Beach and they blew me away. Haven't seen a band with this much stage presence and energy in a long time. Streets Of Heavan And Hell.

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The editing was fine. The point of view was fine. Even the characters were okay. It was the plot that bothered me. It starts off interesting: Abbi awakes, doesn't know how she got there or why she's bound and hooded. Then she spends pages and pages being afraid and, well, tortured. Then she escape I had to read this book for my English class, and that kind of ruins everything it even made reading the Hobbit boring , but that aside, I didn't think this was a good book at all.

And that's when the story takes a total unrealistic turn. Abbi just runs around being crazy, finds out she left her whole life behind for no reason. She leaves her friends because they don't believe something happened and to be honest, I started doubting her too; I'm not sure if this was the writers intention or not, but if it was, they did a good job. It's totally out of character and a strange thing for a person to do.

Live with someone you don't know? And then the conclusion The writers could have saved the book by making a believable ending, but they manage to make the whole search for her captor pointless. Good for her that she saves that other girl, but to be honest, I didn't really care at that point any more. And pushing your thumbs in some ones eyes? That's just plain disgusting. I wouldn't suggest this book to anyone.

Just go read something else. There are way better thrillers out there than this one. I will read something else of Nicci French in the future, to see if my problem was just with this particular plot or with the writers, but I won't be breaking my neck to get my hands on one. I don't know how many people you know that leave their normal lives behind, go crazy and spend all their money, decide to live with a total stranger, get hit on the head and held captive for no reason, then manage to escape, and forget how they got there in the first place!

And, no, this isn't a light or fast read.

It took me days to wade through this over the top "no one believes me! Don't get tricked into reading it like me. It will let you down. The suspense-filled atmosphere leapt off the pages and I found myself catching my breath and actually feeling the pressure presented within the covers.

This doesn't usually happen to me, especially from a book I know is fiction. The author or authors really have done a fabulous job bringing the book to life and I imagine the plot does a fairly accurate job conveying a true life account of something like this. I only have a few minor quibbles. Firstly, Abbie does some dumb things, however it's still believable that she might react that way in her situation, and really, she's not a brainless twit of a victim.

Although what she does later was very stupid and I wanted to smack her. Still, after the fact, I suppose I understand it now. Secondly, and I guess lastly, I do not believe for a second that the police are so inept that they could not follow-up on simple, routine leads. If Abbie can do it, surely they can too. To sum it up, the terror was evident, the environment creepy, and the overall pace was just right. A thrilling good read, if not a perfect one.

Aug 23, Creative A rated it it was amazing Recommends it for: Anyone who likes mainstream fiction with a little clean edginess. This is a chilling, very realistic book by the collaborative voice of two journalists under the pseudonym Nicci French. Abbie Devereaux wakes up somewhere in the dark, wrists tied, ankles tied, gagged and blinded with a sack.

She can't remember the past week. Her kidnapper tells her he's going to kill her, that he's killed other woman just like her, and there's nothing she can do about it. She is going to die. In desperation, Abbie tries to hang herself with the ropes she's tied to, and breaks t This is a chilling, very realistic book by the collaborative voice of two journalists under the pseudonym Nicci French. In desperation, Abbie tries to hang herself with the ropes she's tied to, and breaks them instead.

But once in the real world, she's still not safe. For one, nobody believes she was kidnapped, and no one can find her kidnapper. For two, everything about the life she remembers has changed: This is all worsened by evidence that she's actually loosing her mind. The great thing about this book is that Abbie is so ordinary and instinctive that everything she feels or does makes complete sense. And so you feel her doubt: She's not crazy, is she? With a creepy aura of deja vu, Abbie finds herself retracing her exact steps from the week before her amnesia, and she struggles to understand - who was she?

The more she learns, the less anyone believes her. The less she believes herself. The more she knows the trail has to end, somewhere. This is the kind of book you can't get out of your head even weeks after you'd finished reading it.

1. La forja del héroe (Spanish Edition);
2. Call of the Whales?
3. A War of Their Own: Bombers over the Southwest Pacific - World War II Fifth Air Force Air War, General George Kenney, U.S. Army Air Forces (AAF).
4. MAJI: The untold adventure of the men of the East.
5. The Diary of an Irish Stone Cottage Renovation.
6. Doug McCarron - Kwajalien- Rules;
7. The Land of the Living.

Abbie is a vulnerable but internally strong character I empathized with right away. The story is edgy without being horrifying, filled with a sense of doom, inevitability, and grim determination - the ending is climatic and shocking, but fully satisfying as well. Abbie's steamy but short romance with Ben is the only reason I didn't give this five stars, and that's my personal preference for modesty.

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May 18, Margaret rated it liked it. Great start , promising a crime thriller! But it is a psychology thriller after all. Very good indeed , just without the element of surprise , or an interesting villain. Quite a page turner though! Aug 09, Sharon rated it it was amazing. Could not put this book down, best I've read since Michael Robotham! Really great mystery, Nicci French does it again! I gasped and my breath plumed up in the air. My eyes stung with the cold glare of light. She is aware that her captor is there watching her, she knows she has to stay alive and with a miracle manages to escape from one hellish situation to another.

This is definitely a fast paced psychological thriller that can be read in one sitting. The book starts off for the point of view of Abbie. She uses her senses to describe where she is and tries to put together what is happening to her. As a wee warning it is quite descriptive at times when Abbie is struggling just in case anybody is sensitive to that kind of content it appears now and again not a lot. From this point the novel has many high and low points for me.

I wanted to like it and for the first half I did. Sep 10, Evi Voula Marmarinou rated it liked it. This book was a very nice surprise, as I only bought it by chance in a second hand bookshop that is no more The kind of thriller that you cannot put down, it kept me captivated all the way through and the reason I am giving it three stars is that there are some "silly" and too unbelievable elements in the plot, like the way the police handles the case Still, a very entertaining read.

Aug 20, Baudelaire Violet rated it did not like it. So the end was reaally bad I don't know what's happening but just as soon I get excited about a book plot I discover a really shitty ending. Just the main idea getting lost and then round and round we go with some useless facts And let me freak out about the main character Abbie. I think she is effing illogical. All along the book she says that she's so afraid of the killer, that she thinks that she will came after her. And then she calmly walks in into a stranger's appartment So the end was reaally bad And then she calmly walks in into a stranger's appartment yes I know she had a key but really????

Oh, no one will get me here.