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Lädt ... I'm Not Samvon Jack Ketchum, Lucky McKee
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Melde dich bei LibraryThing an um herauszufinden, ob du dieses Buch mögen würdest. Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. 3.5 Good tale well told. ( ) It's no secret how much I love Ketchum's writing, and he seems to have found a solid writing partner in McKee. In this, their second collaboration, I think they break new ground. While this isn't a "horror" novel, it's still horror. In an introduction to the book, Ketchum asks that the reader read the I'm Not Sam story, then give a bit of a break before reading the Who's Lily? short that follows it. I did and I'm glad I did. I walked away from I'm Not Sam not sure whether I liked it or not. But I thought about it overnight, then the next day, read the last part. And then I realized all the strengths of this story. Well done, Ketchum and McKee, well done. I don't know if anyone remembers, but a while back in the news, there was a situation that is the same premise as this book with a different circumstance. It involved an old man who would go to a nursing home and have sex with his wife who had Alzheimers. They were legally married. But, the woman had diminished brain function. And if I remember, she didn't know who this man was a lot of the times. But yet, he felt that he had a right to have conjugal visits with her. In I'm Not Sam, this takes an even darker turn when a husband and wife are faced with the wife becoming a "split personality" of a 5 year old girl. As a child, she is uninhibited about her body, so acts like a little kid, running around naked, asking for help to bathe. Even though this is his wife, the husband is uncomfortable with this as he knows, in her mind, she is a child. For him to engage in any kind of marital act with her, even though they are married, was definitely a struggle that he faced. I won't reveal any more than that, but, morally, ethically, even when a couple are married and have had a long and loving relationship, when does it become criminal? When does it cross the line of abuse? Just for the record, In my book, both situations are creepy from the get go and the vulnerable person should be protected at all costs as they are not mentally able to give consent. It's a difficult story, well told. Disturbing and unsettling. keine Rezensionen | Rezension hinzufügen
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Now I'm way beyond confusion. Now I'm scared. I've slid down the rabbit-hole and what's down there is dark and serious. This is not play-acting or some waking bad dream she's having. She's changed, somehow overnight. I don't know how I know this but I sense it as surely as I sense my own skin. This is not Sam, my Sam, wholly sane and firmly balanced. Capable of tying off an artery as neatly as you'd thread a belt through the loops of your jeans. And now I'm shivering too. In some fundamental way she's changed? Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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Google Books — Lädt ... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)813.54Literature English (North America) American fiction 20th Century 1945-1999BewertungDurchschnitt:
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