Once, when I picked up a book from the local library, the librarian asked to tell her what I thought about the book when I would bring it back. Well, why not write a few lines about all the books I read so everybody could see what I thought about it? I'm often also happy to have friends recommend a certain book or tell me this and that is not really worth reading. I won't comment about the tons of books I have read so far, but about books I read from now on.
| highly recommended | sehr empfohlen | |
| good reading | gutes lesematerial | |
| average | durchschnittlich | |
| not too interesting | nicht allzu interessant | |
| recommended not to read it | empfehlung das buch nicht zu lesen |
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| title | Superstition |
| author | David Ambrose |
| ISBN-10 | 0-330-36744-7 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-330-36744-8 |
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| date | 2013-Sep-06 |
Joanna Cross, a journalist, who busted a scam which claimed to make it possible to contact the deceased, agrees to take part in an experiment run by Sam Towne. Sam is a scientist at an university and his area of research paranormal phenomena. The group of people taking part in the experiment, one of them Joanna, try to 'create' a ghost. Once they get first results, progress is very quick and witin a short time they are far beyond their initial expectations. As the created ghost is only a product of their combined imagination, there is no danger in exploring a bit deeper and go a bit further than originally planned. Or ther 'should' be no danger. However, the imagined ghost starts to show unexpected (re)actions. Some of the group get frightened, others want to explore more and things start to get out of hand.
The book is not frightening and interesting to read; it definitely is not part of the horror genre. But the more the experiment in the book gets out of control, the more the story lacks structure. Towards the end it felt to me, as if the author had not thought things through to that stage and was introducing twists and turns to somehow come to an end.
Half of the book is quite interesting, another third is ok and the last bit is, in my opinion, poor.
