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Cargando... Willard (1968)por Stephen Gilbert
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Fiction.
Horror.
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HTML: When his nagging mother discovers a rat infestation, the anonymous writer of these notebooks sets out to drown the pests, but finds himself unable to go through with it. Instead, he befriends the rats, learning to train and communicate with them. Before long he has the idea of using the rats for revenge against a world in which he has been a failure. His target is his hateful boss, Mr. Jones, who treats him with supreme disrespect and plans to fire him and replace him with someone less expensive. The narrator records his plans in chilling detail as his campaign for vengeance progresses from vandalism to robbery to the most horrific of murders . . . The basis for the 1971 film Willard and its 2003 remake, Stephen Gilbert's bestseller Ratman's Notebooks (1968) returns to print in this edition, the first in 40 years. This edition features a new introduction by Kim Newman, who argues that the success of Ratman's Notebooks demonstrated the viability of horror as a mainstream literary genre and paved the way for the horror publishing boom of the 1970s and the early novels of Stephen King and James Herbert. .No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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The story is told in first person, as diary entries by the main character. He lives with an ailing, overbearing mother in an enormous old house that neither can afford. When he decides to save a family of rats from drowning, he befriends them and becomes their caretaker, slowly training a group in simple tricks. At first, he does it as a pastime, later he uses the rats in revenge against his boss, and even later he uses them to rob stores and unsuspecting wealthy families.
It's a very strange book, and I couldn't get over the numerous weird left turns it took throughout the course of the novel. As unbalanced and unreliable as the narrator is, you still sympathize with him, and his rationalizations somehow made sense to me a lot of the time. I also really liked how his logic began to fail and his actions became increasingly more deplorable as the story continues. And even while that happens, he starts to realize how crazy he really is and begins to clean himself up and lead a more normal life.
The parts where the narrator is sneaking around to commit his crimes can be genuinely suspenseful, but things can slow down quite a bit with the copious descriptions of much of the narrator's rather mundane life. Many people might find this too slow, but I enjoyed it quite a bit. ( )