Sliver audiobook

Me recordó bastante a La semilla del diablo, me gustó más que ese porque el final me parece mejor

Ladies and Gentlemen it was not my intention to write such an early review, when I was more interested in advancing my Goodreads challenge (I have finally been able to get rid of a month of January that has been almost lost). I know that many of the users of goodreads are waiting for other reviews such as "La lozana andaluza" https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2... or one of the novels with which I will have to settle accounts late, or early "Lazarus" by Morris West https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1... that for me he has signed so far the worst book of this year (in fact I have already ceased to be a fan of his), and the proof that my admired Juan Manuel de Prada https://www.goodreads.com/author/show... was absolutely right https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5... (on this subject take a look at his astute review of "The fisherman's sandals" . https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3... ). This man has done terrible damage to the Catholic Church with his nefarious influence. If you had the opportunity to read my review of Steven A. McKay's Druid (he took the opportunity to apologize to Mr. McKay for being so his book. I already tell him that the fault is not solely his, and that most likely he would never have written this review, but would have been conditioned by exogenous factors) https://www.goodreads.com/review/show... People will wait for my impressions about Jules Verne's "Journey to the Center of the Earth." https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4... that despite the anti-religious charge that this book has (something strange, since Verne is not an anti-religious writer. I will comment on this, but I have the feeling that this is due to its editor Haetzel, who is a socialist.) It would also be very interesting to write a review about "Four Rogues Without blemish" by G.K. Chesterton https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1... who is my favorite writer, which is a good book, but it is not one of the best books by G.K. Chesterton. I also have other pending readings such as "Madre patria" by Marcelo Gullo https://www.goodreads.com/author/show... https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5... that is fine, but I see an important failure, and that is why I lowered it to four stars. It would also be interesting to talk about "Jesus of Nazareth" by Benedict XVI (more after the campaign that was unleashed around his person) https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8... or the best book of the year so far "It gets late and dusk" by Robert Sarah https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4... An accurate x-ray not only of the situation of the Church, but of how the world is. I don't think I got to write it, but it deserves a special mention "Itroduction to the devout life" of St. Francis de Sales https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3... about the importance of prayer, the sacraments, and of being a devout man.This month is part of being Lent for Catholics, and I'm going to miss many users friends of mine who are going to take a abstinence from Goodreads, and they're going to take a break from Goodreads. I express my affection to them, and I will miss them very much. I will of course still be here brimming with activity (God willing). In fact, this month I am going to read two books, which may be key for this year. I refer to an "Amendment to the whole" by my admired Juan Manuel de Prada (remember that "A Library in the Oasis" was together with "Characters of the Reformation" by Hilaire Belloc https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5... the best non-fiction book of last year, and it will be interesting to see if he can stand up to Cardinal Robert Sarah. https://www.goodreads.com/author/show...) and the other book is the novel is "The third that never existed" by José Javier Esparza https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6... written by my favorite Valencian writer (you know that despite being the son of a Valladolid, and a Cordovan. It will already be spoken in my review of "La lozana andaluza" of my Cordoban ancestry. But I think I already told you that I am in love with a Valencian girl, even though we broke up fifteen years ago, and she is married, and has two children. But one of the things she taught me was to love her city. Although now I no longer want to hear from me.) If any devout soul reads this criticism I ask you to pray a lot for her, her husband, and her children. Why do I insist so much on him? Because it is the only way to show her how much I love her without sinning (she has an exhibition called Cities in the air I leave you the link https://crianza4d.com/galeria/ and I leave a link of her creations that can be acquired at a small price. I am not like the frog of the fabula, which promoted some merchandise that it did not use. I will also acquire objects designed by her very soon https://society6.com/marilonieto/all?...). But we have been distracted from the matter, José Javier Esparza's novel is a continuation of another he wrote about a soldier Julián Romero de Ibarrola who participated in the battle of San Quintín (one of the greatest victories of the Hispanic monarchy). Now comes the truly interesting thing. Once I have written the reviews of the books written by Juan Manuel de Prada, and José Javier Esparza my big project will be to write a balance of my readings of 2021, and eye what has been read so far, and what is thought (always in conditional, because it is not up to me) to read this year. With this I intend to crown this month of March.By the way, there is one thing there is one thing that I have not told you, that I have opened an Instagram account fonch38 in case you want to follow it. Of course you should not expect photos of me in top less, because I am an antidote to lust, but if you have played the BioWare video game called Planeescape Torment. Without a doubt alguina one of the best of the saga, if we dispense with Baldur's Gates 2 Shadows of Amn https://www.goodreads.com/review/show... will know that there is a succubus called Fall of Grace, and that in the planar city of Sigil has a brothel, but not for sexual appetites, but to satiate intellectual appetites, and that is what I propose with my Instagram account, although he believes it for another purpose. Similar to the novel that is going to be commented on now.WARNING THIS NOVEL CONTAINS SOME SEX SCENES. (this was included for my friends, or some users who don't like books that have a lot of sex. We will talk about this topic when I write my review of the "Andalusian Lozana").The first thing I'm going to tell you is a pretty vast expression, but I must say it. It is used a lot by my mother, to whom I send a hug from here, but I have enjoyed reading this novel "more than a marrano in a puddle". The first thing I must tell you about "Sliver" is that perhaps a lot has happened to me with the note (this has also happened to me with "Four rogues without blemish", or with "The Magdeburg Wedding" by Getrud von Le Fort https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...). What I mean is that three stars seemed too little to me, and four seem too many to me. Actually, the note that "The Sliver" deserves would be rather 3.5, but until Goodreads does not introduce that scoring scale I considered that in this case it is better to go over, than to fall short. One of the things that made me put a four instead of three stars was the fact that it had such a low rating. In fact, I found this book much better than I expected, and from page 100-200 (my edition was 223 pages) I had a lot of fun, and it has been a very pleasant experience. As sordid as this story is.We must be honest this is not the best novel by Ira Levin I think his best novel will be "The Son of Rosemary" or "The Devil's Seed", https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2... which is what the great writer the Jesuit Leonardo Castellani would https://www.goodreads.com/author/show... have called nightmare literature. In "The Baby of Rose Mary" we are told the birth of the antichrist, then Seltzer would tell us his uplifting childhood in "The Prophecy" https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2... and also in "Twilight Servers" https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3... and then we would see his activity in "The Lord of the World" by Robert Hugh Benson, "Father Elias" by Michael D. O'Brien, or "Apocalypse the Day of the Lord" by Jorge Sáez Criado https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2... https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5... https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3... to name three in this case. It had a magnificent adaptation "Rose Mary's Baby" carried out by Woody Allen's (Mia Farrow) ex-wife, John Cassavettes, and a transvestite Tony Curtis (for those who say he has no records). The same goes for his other two novels "The Children of Brazil" played by Sir Laurence Olivier, and Gregory Peck (I haven't seen this one, nor have I read it) and stepford's women (which had a disastrous remake a few decades ago. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9... https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5... .In the face of such critical triumphs, and sales "The sliver" may not have interest, but for me it has. Like the novels mentioned above, "The Sliver" had an adaptation with Sharon Stone, William Baldwin, Tom Berenger, and Martin Landau in the lead roles. The film was nominated for seven razzies, but as usual I think it has become a cult title. Hopefully the same will happen with this book. The one I am trying to save from ignominy, which I believe he does not deserve. In my opinion, and I believe, I have already said it on many occasions. One should not be carried away by fashions, nor the fan phenomenon. That is what they would like, and that is what is typical of totalitarian regimes, and what excites them, as Alexis de Tocqueville https://www.goodreads.com/author/show... or Herbert Marcuse of the disastrous Frankfurt school https://www.goodreads.com/author/show... the so-called mass man have already predicted. That's why I'm a bit uncritical of the fan phenomenon, and I try to try glasses not as frequented as the Julius K. Brayne from G.K. Chesterton's "Secret Garden." First of all, it should be said of "The sliver" that it is a rather worthy, and decent, thriller. True, that it was difficult for me to settle in the hundred pages I was a little groggy, trying to find out who is who, and trying to understand the matter, or the crux of the novel, but once you have understood it is very addictive. It has a lot in common with "Rosemary's Baby" is a splinter-style building. Hence the title of the novel. Maybe my friend I've told you about, or friends of mine from the Language Center could explain to me what kind of buildings those are. It shares that trait with that other novel by Ira Levin, a disastrous place where accidents have occurred a priori, so it has a bad reputation. It is known that there is a landlord, and several tenants. A woman named Kay Norris who is editor of Daimpress (we will see that there are many allusions to writers like Anne Tyler https://www.goodreads.com/author/show...) or actors like Paul Newman, John Guielgud, or Claire Bloom. In fact, and this is going to be key, it looks a lot like an actress, and the mother of one of the characters. So this novel is going to be very morbid, as a friend of my father Doctor Conde would say "What is not morbid is not interesting". In fact, it has a strong Oedipal component. In fact, there is a lot of mention of a psychiatrist who has the name of the Swedish President. Perhaps at first the most difficult thing is to sit with so many characters whether they are the neighbors of the immuebe, or Kay's friends. One of the things I like the most is that the protagonist is not a woman in her twenties, but a mature woman, who is about to enter quarantine. This is a trait, which I believe, is going to be something premonitory, and more in a society like ours, increasingly aged. I was talking about this on twitter with a friend. I told him that I had never seen more beautiful women than in our time. One of the qualities of the twenty-first century is that the woman who is now between 40-60 has never been more beautiful. More or less that age would be equivalent to women in their thirties. The mature woman has never been more appetizing than in these times. There are always cases like Diana de Poitiers, or Ninon de Lenclos who achieved love success in their maturity, or old age. https://www.goodreads.com/author/show... One of the things I don't like about feminism today, and that reproached her is that she only seems to take care of women aged 20-40 and the rest of the women give them the same. One of the things that infuriates me the most is seeing how Hollywood despises women in their fifties, and does not give them the role they deserve, while actors have such a long life. In addition to the psychological pressure to which these women are subjected, they are always forced to be beautiful, and young, undergoing cruel aesthetic operations, breast amphibious, putting on lips. When what they do is get uglier. That is what should be done because the woman is beautiful, and has dignity. It is also a shame the behavior of certain companies, which prevent them from getting pregnant, and force them to sign contracts so that they do not get pregnant. This is why women protest, and not be slaves to policies maintained by unscrupulous millionaires, who seek to turn the family into a camp of Agramente, and promote an absurd, sterile struggle of the sexes, saying that men are abusers, and rapists, and that they are their enemies.

The female editor of trashy gothic romance novels gets a new apartment in a high rise, only to discover she is being watched.This was an uncomfortably tense suspense novel that had two issues: the ending and being written at the wrong time. The ending: the heroine makes several references to gothic novels, and indeed the opening of the book is indeed a juggling of "who is the bad guy really" that is the staple of gothics. Things veer in an interesting direction toward the middle of the book, overturning one big gothic trope, but then wrap up in a kind-of gothic fashion at the end, a bit deus ex machina. But there's one element missing: the good guy that the heroine has believed for most of the book to be the bad guy. I try not to "rewrite" books in reviews, but the ending was so weak I had to reread it to make sure I hadn't missed something.Being written at the wrong time: This doesn't work as a thriller and would have gone over a lot better as a modern domestic suspense novel, with its shifting clues and tangled morality. Call it Girl in the Penthouse, fix the end with a good guy (hey, make it abut a same sex love triangle, why not?) and make sure she inherits the building, sell a bajillion copies, make a movie, cast Sharon Stone as the director character amd give her some good murdery red herrings, PROFIT.Recommended if you like Gone Girl.

CATS ARE THE BEST

Kay Norris, a successful single lady of thirty-nine, moves into the posh Upper East Side district of Carnegie Hill in Manhattan. The building she moves into is a slender, silvery high rise full of exclusive apartments. The building's landlord is personable, if slightly obsessive, but very solicitous of his tenants' various comforts. Only after she moves in does Kay discover that the tabloids have nicknamed her building "The Horror High Rise". Four unexplained deaths have occurred during the building's construction, and a fifth one is about to happen...I really enjoyed reading Silver by Ira Levin. It was a very intriguing story and I would definitely recommend this book to anyone who likes horror. I think that I saw at least part of the movie that was made in 1993, and starred Sharon Stone and William Baldwin. In my opinion, the book was much better than the movie. I give Sliver by Ira Levin an A+!

Kurz, seltsam, gut!Kay zieht in die 1300 Madison Avenue. Auch das "Horror-Hochhaus genannt". Es ist relativ neu, dafür gab es schon vier seltsame Todesfälle ...Der Schreibstil ist speziell und man muss sich daran gewöhnen. Abgehackt, viele Perspektivwechsel, oft werden Szenen nur kurz dargestellt, dann wieder werden Details und Kleinigkeiten immer wieder hervorgehoben.Ich fand das aber schon bei "die Frauen von Stepford" interessant. Auch das Buch an sich ist speziell. Es fängt belanglos an, steigert sich langsam, die Stimmung wird immer beklemmender. Spannend ist es aber nicht.Auf jeden Fall lesenswert. Und das Ende ist wahnsinnig gut.

** spoiler alert ** Ira Levin, almost always has a twist at the end of his books. The twist however in addition to being unexpected is sometimes scary as in the case of 'Rosemary's Baby' and 'Those Boys from Brazil' In 'Sliver' Ira Levin delves deep inside the human psyche. He asks us the question, what would you have done faced with the delicious opportunity of 'looking into your neighbours lives without they being aware of it'. And my answer is a resounding 'yes' I too would have been glued to the the cameras taking in every detail.

This is another great book from Ira Levin. It's a bit of a slow build at first, working to establish a creeping, seedy atmosphere befitting of the unsavoury subject matter. The plot takes some unexpected turns along the way, keeping you on your toes, before culminating in a breathless climax. There’s an excellent sting in the tale right at the end, and some brilliantly sinister poetic justice, that make this a very satisfying read.Given that we're now in the age of social media and reality TV, the book's themes of technology posing a threat to our privacy, and the addictive nature of voyeurism, have aged incredibly well. If anything, it's more relevant now than when it was first released, and is all the more unsettling for it.

Ira comes THRU with the drama and suspense

El final ha sido un poquito pesado, pero satisfactorio. La novela está casi a la altura de Rosemary's Baby, con la que comparte algunos elementos. Me ha gustado en especial cómo, al contrario que en otras historias, la gata de la protagonista tenga mucho peso en la narración, es otro personaje, como en la vida real.Probablemente relea esta novela más adelante y le dé la quinta estrella. La primera impresión ha sido buena, pero a veces la segunda es más acertada.

Somewhat lacking in character development and depth but very very entertaining nonetheless