Book review Carly's song

It took about two days to finish reading this book. It's really a short horror novel.

Actually, I hesitated before buying it. Really influenced by the recommendation, I am very worried. After all, I live alone, and contact with too many terrorists may affect my mood. Douban gave 7.6 points, which I think is low, and should be given 8 points.

? The author of Song of Cali is dan simmons of the United States. On the cover, he was introduced as a "cross-border master" who won 27 world literature prizes in 24 years. Dan simmons won the highest honor of fantasy literature-the World Fantasy Literature Award with this first novel. In fact, what I want to see most is the polar evil spirits.

? My interest in books comes from the movie Desire for Survival. The statue of Carly in India under the smog suddenly made me curious about this horror novel with the eastern religious culture as the background. I happened to see it in a bookstore and bought it after much hesitation.

? This novel is set in Calcutta, India, and tells a bizarre story. I can generally accept horror novels because it won't surprise me at first sight, which makes me deeply gratified.

The goddess Carly is the clue of this book, and all the stories revolve around the goddess Carly. Like many horror movies, Bobby, the editor and poet of American Magazine, insisted on being married and took his children on a trip to Calcutta to interview Das, a famous local poet, despite rumors that Das died six or seven years ago.

I didn't feel a little cold until the second half of the story. Dan simmons used a gentle and delicate technique to describe bloody violence, which I like very much. It can be said that the cruel place is still cruel, just like the winter in the south, it is too cold to see. Simmons used a lot of space to describe the chaos, filth and cruelty of Calcutta in front of the protagonist. I can't find a positive word about Calcutta in the whole novel. Street is the focus of the description. When I got off the plane, I walked to the hotel street and met Das street, which gave people the feeling of backwardness, ignorance and poverty.

? Jayprakhi Mukhtananda's narrative is the climax and key of the novel. The experience of joining the Skeleton Church Sect has also become an introduction to the goddess Carly and an explanation of the death of Darth. The experience of stealing corpses, mortuary and terrible sacrificial ceremonies give people a solemn feeling, which is not a direct terror to the soul, just like an old building or an unfinished building at night. The darkness that seeps through the dark pane is really scary. Of course, dan simmons won't show off his mystery. He spared no effort to face the sacrificial ceremony, and all the expected horrors arrived as scheduled, while the ghostly dreamland was rare.

In the second half, the detailed description of the leper Das and the fact that Das was bitten by Bai Wan's tail finger gave me the biggest impact. The article repeatedly described the abuse and psychological activities that Das suffered after being trapped. It's really real enough to make people feel immersive. Bobby repeatedly imagined what gap to try to escape, but because of pain and fear, he could not take action, so he had to pretend to faint and pray that he would not be killed in a few minutes. It can be said that it conforms to the normal reaction, fear and withdrawal of normal people after being abused and stimulated. Of course, Bobby chose to protect his wife and daughter. Even after he escaped, his first choice was to go back to the hotel.

At the end of the story, Bobby's daughter disappeared and died. Leaving Calcutta is everyone's last blessing. Maybe this is also the reason. Even after a long period of remorse and guilt, the couple left Calcutta quickly, and the author did not give a detailed explanation to the people behind the scenes.

Later, I learned that Darth might be resurrected, and Bobby went to Calcutta again. In the airport lobby, Bobby was once again enveloped by Carly's song. This time, he didn't die again, bought the fastest ticket and returned directly.

"In the night when the mountain wind is howling, I sometimes get up and go to the hut, look at the darkness outside and listen to the sound of six limbs scratching on the stone. I stood there waiting, but its hungry mouth and eyes always hid in the dark and dared not approach ... what made it afraid to approach? I have no idea. "

Like the endings of many stories, amri Tower got pregnant, Bobby took over the publishing house, and the years were quiet. Even if Carly's song will still play, Carly's time has come.

In fact, after reading the whole novel, I can't define it as a horror novel. What I feel most from the book is India's ecology and mysterious religious color, which is ancient and backward. As described in the novel, Calcutta is full of smoke and darkness. The description of the local area is full of decadence and ignorance, which is consistent with the lens of the Indian god in Dying for Survival.

? Amri Tower's words may hide the author's understanding: "I don't think all the problems in Kolkata are common metropolitan diseases." However, I haven't found any information about whether dan simmons has been to Kolkata on the Internet. So, just look at it as fantasy novel, and don't delve into it.