Carrion Comfort: Dan Simmons

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There is a police and FBI investigation into a bizarre series of seemingly unconnected murders that span down a street on a single night as Sheriff Gentry and FBI Agent Haines interview a visiting psychologist named Saul Laski. Saul is famous for his theories about seemingly strange and impossible violence, but is as stumped as the sheriff. Later, Saul is compelled to break into the house where the murders started to investigate, and meets Natalie; who has come for the same reason; to find out why her father, a photographer used and murdered in the battle, has died so bizarrely. After realizing they are both looking for answers, Saul reveals to Natalie that he has a past with supernatural violence, having been used by someone with the Ability in Chełmno long ago, ever since looking to find the SS Officer, an Oberst, who controlled him in a perverse series of ways, including as a living pawn in a life-size game of chess with a Nazi General where each piece removed from the board was executed. As the chess game ended, Saul continued to be used to hunt down the Nazi General, who apparently had a weaker Ability than the Oberst. Saul is controlled to kill the General. Regaining his willpower for a moment in an explosion, he flees into the forest and survives the rest of the holocaust amongst Partisan Polish and later Partisan Jewish forces before finding solace in Zionist Israel. This story is shared with sheriff Gentry later. O'Connor, James (November 11, 2019). "Reverse-Horror Monster Game Carrion Is Coming To Xbox One As Well As PC Next Year". GameSpot . Retrieved June 17, 2020.

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The characters through out the novel are fantastic and for the most part a lot of fun to read about. You get many chapters from the villains perspective and those are creepy and unsettling. So much of their ability feels rapey and in quite a few instances is literally rapey so be prepared if that sort of thing doesn't work for you, it's only a few moments though here and there in this giant novel. There are a lot of actually scary scenes and a lot more that will unsettle and creep you out. Which is what I look for most in a horror novel. Dan Simmons grew up in various cities and small towns in the Midwest, including Brimfield, Illinois, which was the source of his fictional "Elm Haven" in 1991's SUMMER OF NIGHT and 2002's A WINTER HAUNTING. Dan received a B.A. in English from Wabash College in 1970, winning a national Phi Beta Kappa Award during his senior year for excellence in fiction, journalism and art. The audiobook is enhanced by the exceptional narration of Natalie Naudus. She doesn't just read the story; she performs it. Her soothing and captivating voice, coupled with impeccable pacing and passion, significantly elevated my enjoyment of the book. It's an unforgettable auditory experience. Naudus now ranks among my favorite narrators. Everyone's character was perfect for Carrion Comfort. The story is very well done, but there were a few problems I had with it. If choosing to fight Duna's Undertaker and the Decomposing Dwarves, there are a few precautions that would be wise to take:THE PAST... Caught behind the lines of Hitler’s Final Solution, Saul Laski is one of the multitudes destined to die in the notorious Chelmno extermination camp. Until he rises to meet his fate and finds himself face to face with an evil far older, and far greater, than the Nazi’s themselves... Carrion is a horror video game developed by Phobia Game Studio and published by Devolver Digital. Described as a "reverse-horror game", [1] [2] [3] the game allows players to control a tentacled monster whose objective is to make its way through a facility, stalking and killing humans in its path. [1] Carrion Comfort's story is complex, and involves several parties. Not only are these parties involved in a bigger picture, but they also have their own stories and action. There really isn't a main character, but several main characters, and several minor characters. As far as main characters go, Saul was my definite favorite. His story from the past to the present was so intriguing, and his time in WWII in the concentration camps was probably my favorite part of the entire novel. His cat and mouse relationship with the one and only Oberst was interesting, and I found myself cheering for him to succeed and avenge what and who the Oberst had done and is. The other characters: Natalie, Rob, Melanie, and Harod were also some of my favorite characters. Even though some of those characters were part of the evil side, I found I still enjoyed reading about them. Grants access to the Vulture's Prayer innate skill (2AP skill to explode a corpse for healing and 15% damage buff) Dr Saul Laski, a psychiatrist who survived the holocaust in World War II, spent time in Israel, and who currently works at Columbia University.

The fact, that a text is contained in a book, comes only from the dimensions of such a text; or, in the case of a series of short texts (poems, for instance), from their number. Overall, I loved the cosmic and body horror as well as the gore, but felt pretty meh about the characters and the romance. I didn't love it, but it was a fun read and I still want to see where things go in the next book since there were a couple of loose threads left hanging.

I'm glad I re-read this, but my god it was long. There was so much, by my older and jaded eyes, that I think could have been cut right the hell out, but it was a horror novel first and foremost, and having a long build-up before the missiles come and destroy the island (or whatever) is still what we seek in the style. Carrion Comfort is concerned with mind vampires, people who can enter the consciousness of any person and control their actions completely, like a puppeteer. Complete control, one from which there is no defense mental or physical, is certainly a frightening subject, and the opening set in 1942 Chelmno is pretty much stellar. The important thing is, that this phrase, 'I love you' or 'I hate you', performs a certain function as a text within the structure of the book, I got this as a free gift from Bloodhound books as a reward for signing up to their newsletter. Because they specialise in crime and thrillers I expected it to be one of the two. Sadly I was disappointed on both counts. What we have is a novel detailing a woman's decline into insanity. To begin with, it is told in the first person but from alternating viewpoint of the woman and her mother then two thirds of the way in a third character takes up the story then in the penultimate chapter a fourth character takes over to reveal the startling truth which was obvious to the reader from before the halfway mark.