/lit/ - Literature

>>14268979
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/719181.An_Antarctic_Mystery
Jules Verne - An Antarctic Mystery (2006) (200 pages)

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About Let The Right One In:
I had no idea what it would be but it's become a favourite now. I thought it was written perfectly (for example, when being introduced to Hakan and the mysterious other person, you only have dialogues).
Getting to know 15 characters was painless because their backgrounds are only introduced when needed, and I thought it was really well done in the sense that you feel realness about them.
Oskar was PERFECT. He was being bullied, but he was also weird, and also a happy kid playing outside. Hard to write kids, but this time it was perfect.

I also thought the fucked up story didn't pull any punches (it was impossible to read it in public), but I loved it. And the fact that Eli was a boy only made their love story even better desu, as in it's not physical love, it's not boy-girl love, but it's something else (and it must, because Eli is something else too).
I haven't read Dracula, was Eli's background a direct reference to it?

Finally, concerning Sweden and the 80's. I rarely feel a town as alive and realistic as it did. You could tell the author actually lived there. It was very organic, and I felt like I was living there too, with the accuracy to wheather, the diversity of the cast, and drug issues, the poverty, and the mental illness.

>about the swedish film
I watched it after reading, and it's a good film too. Not violent enough, but it was rather close to the imagery I had in mind.

>>14269185
>piss ball
oh right I had forgotten about it. It really sets the mood.

>>14269098
Weren't we like 15 to vote and read?

>>14269185
>it would not last. The new caretaker will get old and be disposed of like the old guy, also I don't know what will happen when piss ball boy hits puberty. The vamp looks like a gril, and the boy's snake will jump for "her". I don't know if the vamp will let him bugger "her" to keep him close, or if "she" would allow him to pick up a gf, thus slowly having the bond they share erode over time until piss boy doesn't care for "her" anymore.
>I know it looks like it was true friendship when the vamp put itself in harms way to save our protagonist, but that was just cold calculation. The vamp also will never make piss boy a vamp, it needs somebody that can go into the sun for it. Another reason it will never last. I would love to see a sequel, but the book ended perfectly. I read the sequel that was put out years ago, but I don't think it deals with the same thing(can't remember), also it was subpar.
I really got the opposite impression. I thought, for once, Eli got close to someone "pure". I'm thinking it lasts, since Oskar literally threw his future away for Eli. Accordingly, Eli was ready to infect Oskar and even suggested it, to make their love last forever.