The Book Depository Handling the Undead by John Ajvide Lindqvist
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Description: Handling the Undead : Paperback : Quercus Publishing : 9781847249906 : 1847249906 : 03 Sep 2009 : Reissued paperback with a new upmarket brand look for the 'Swedish Stephen King' and bestselling author of Let the Right One In. The Book Depository Handling the Undead by John Ajvide Lindqvist - shop the best deal online on thebookbug.co.uk
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Product ID: 9781847249906
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Author: Paula Mc
Rating: 5
Review: 'Let the right one in' also by John Ajvide Lindqvist is one of my favourite reads of this year, a remarkable story, not just a vampire story but so much more. 'Handling the Undead' is just as good, another amazing story from John Ajvide Lindqvist. 'Handling the Undead' begins in Stockholm on a night when the weather is heavy and everyone can feel that something is about to happen and it does, in the worse way imaginable, people who have been dead for two months are returning from the dead, the government are not sure what to do, the families of the 'reliving' (as they are eventually called) are at a loss of what to do or how to feel about it? 'Handling the Undead' is a book that makes you think, what would you do? So much happens once the 'reliving' return, the government find themselves making the wrong decisions, how do you handle people who are technically alive but not alive, do they have rights? Do they have a place in the world? Can they return to their families? 'Handling the Undead' is more than a story about life after death, what do you do when you lose someone and they come back from the dead? All the characters in the story are conflicted, they have lost someone in some way and now they have returned but the 'reliving' are different, they are not the people they once were, they are a shell of what they were but at the same time there is a faint glimmer of the person they were. All of the relationships are strong relationships, you can feel the strength as you read, and you feel their pain and their loss, their confusion, coming to terms with a loss and then their happiness when their loved ones return. I found 'Handling the Undead' to be a powerful read, so many questions are raised and so many social problems are brought forward, you will get very engrossed in this story, there is so much to this book that you will find enjoyable, enlightening, scary and most of all make you look at the world around you. A must read.
Author: Grumpy old man
Rating: 2
Review: The recently departed are coming back to life, and it's something to do with the searingly hot weather and the electricity constantly in the air. There are no flesh-eating zombies, just corpses in varying stages of decay shuffling round slowly like automatons. The plot follows the lives of several people who have all lost a loved one, and details how they cope with that loved one returning from the grave. It all builds well, up to the point where the government creates special homes for the "reliving"- a huge council estate surrounded by barbed wire and guards, where you can go and visit your nearest and dearest (if your stomach and mind are strong enough...) It then gets weird, and although the ending is beautiful it cannot be connected to the rest of the plot. The two major questions- how are they coming back to life, and why- are not explained, it's all very vague and rather unsatisfactory. I got the feeling that the author wrote the ending he wanted, and either hoped no-one would notice that it didn't actually explain what had happened previously, or he got so wrapped up in it that he forgot to create the links.
