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While on a boating holiday, Scott Carey is exposed to a cloud of radioactive spray. A few weeks later, following a series of medical examinations, he can no longer deny the extraordinary truth. Not only is he losing weight, he is also shorter than he was. Scott Carey has begun to shrink. Richard Matheson's novel follows through its premise with remorseless logic, with Carey first attempting to continue some kind of normal life and later having left human contact behind, having to survive in a world where insects and spiders are giant adversaries. And even that is only a stage on his journey into the unknown.… (mehr)
sturlington: Similar in many ways. Each stays in the head of a solitary hero, isolated by unnatural events beyond his control, struggling to hold onto his sanity and his sense of self.
Do not read if you are an arachnophobe. Story about an American husband and father who was poisoned and shrank by 1/7th of an inch a day. The book alternates from the times when he was bigger and the times he was tiny, with the challenges he faced both mentally and physically. I kept on expecting either a cure or some explanation, some relief for the man...you have to wait till the very end of the story for that! Easy to read, and well thought out. ( )
Scott Carey, un ciudadano normal y corriente, se percata un buen día que su estatura disminuye de modo progresivo. Impulsado por su enérgico temperamento, procura adaptarse a sus nuevas dimensiones. Su vida se convierte en una tragedia. Su esposa y su familia se convierten en gigantes inalcanzables y su gato en una peligrosa amenaza. Scott tiene que luchar para sobrevivir en un mundo de proporciones cada vez más gigantescas... Enfrentado a peligros inimaginables, e impulsado por un férreo afán de supervivencia, se prepara para ingresar en dimensiones desconocidas...
Scott Carey is shrinking by 1/7 inch per day. As he is now only an inch tall he only has a week left before he disappears altogether. We follow his last week with flashbacks to earlier stages of his malady.
I was curious about what would happen when he lost the final 1/7 of an inch and that was really the only thing that kept me going till the end. I liked some of the later flashbacks but the continuous "woe is me" in the earlier ones got on my nerves and the main story of Carey's last week in the cellar and his battles with the spider and struggles to move about didn't hold my interest at all. ( )
If you liked the movie, you'll like the book. Matheson wrote the novel first then the screenplay. While there are changes in structure -- the focus is on survival in the basement, with everything else told in flashback -- a more faithful visualization would be hard to imagine. Though people mostly remember the adventures -- fleeing the pet cat, battling the spider for a crust of bread -- what both versions are mostly about the character's increasing estrangement, demasculinization, and sexual frustration. Size matters. Sexual frustration occupies quite a bit of time in the book, though even in print the mores of 1950s prevented any mention of the main character taking things into his own hand. As a reading experience, the book is pretty downbeat. The hero is in constant pain and peril except in the flashbacks.
Im ersten Augenblick hielt er es für eine Sturzwelle.
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Memory was such a worthless thing, really. Nothing it dealt with was attainable. It was concerned with phantom acts and feelings, with all that was uncapturable except in thought.
Responsibility in the jungle world was pared to the bone of basic survival. There were no political connivings necessary, no financial arenas to struggle in, no nerve-knotting races for superior rungs on the social ladder. There was only to be or not to be.
To love someone when there was nothing to be got from that person; that was love.
But to nature there was no zero. Existence went on in endless cycles. It seemed so simple now. He would never disappear, because there was no point of non-existence in the universe.
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Scott rannte hinaus in seine neue Welt, um sie zu erforschen.
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While on a boating holiday, Scott Carey is exposed to a cloud of radioactive spray. A few weeks later, following a series of medical examinations, he can no longer deny the extraordinary truth. Not only is he losing weight, he is also shorter than he was. Scott Carey has begun to shrink. Richard Matheson's novel follows through its premise with remorseless logic, with Carey first attempting to continue some kind of normal life and later having left human contact behind, having to survive in a world where insects and spiders are giant adversaries. And even that is only a stage on his journey into the unknown.
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Der 1956 entstandene SF-Klassiker erzählt die Geschichte Scott Careys, der mit seinem Boot vor der Küste in eine merkwürdige Giftwolke gerät. Das Gift wirkt auf seinen Organismus wie ein negatives Wachstumshormon: Mr. C wird kleiner. Zunächst sind es nur die Kleider die nicht mehr passen, dann 'wachsen' ihm die Liliputaner über den Kopf, schließlich scheitert seine Ehe an der physischen Diskrepanz. Der Schrumpfungsprozess geht unerbittlich weiter, die Umwelt wird für ihn immer gefährlicher. Er muss vor der Hauskatze geschützt werden, die mit ihm 'spielen' will, schließlich muss er sich selbst gegen Spinnen wehren. Erst als er zum Millimeter großen Winzling geschrumpft ist, kommt der Prozess zum Stillstand - aber zu dem Zeitpunkt lebt er längst in einer Welt, die mit der anderer Menschen zwar identisch, aber allein durch die Größe eine völlig andere ist.
Der Stoff faszinierte augenblicklich die Trickspezialisten unter den Filmemachern. Bereits im folgenden Jahr (1957) wurde er von Jack Arnold verfilmt: "The Incredible Shrinking Man". Der Streifen wurde ein Welterfolg.
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