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Laddar... The Hole (urspr publ 1993; utgåvan 2001)av Guy Burt
VerksinformationThe Hole av Guy Burt (1993)
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Gå med i LibraryThing för att få reda på om du skulle tycka om den här boken. Det finns inga diskussioner på LibraryThing om den här boken. SPOILER: While their parents think they are on a field trip and the school thinks they are at home, 5 kids will spend 3 days in the Hole, a windowless cellar in their school. Martyn, the instigator of the prank, will remain above ground, promising that when the 5 emerge, they'll have been part of the greatest prank ever. But Martyn doesn't come to get them... In a plot twist, the story turns out to have been written by Liz, the only survivor in the Hole. How much of it was true? Was it Liz's idea? Did she and Martyn cook up the prank? Very British; found Liz's ruminations pretentious but perhaps that's part of the mystery of who Liz was. At an English boarding school the charismatic, practical joker Martyn, convinces 5 of his schoolmates to participate in his greatest prank. He leads them to an abandoned section of the school where there is a deep cellar. The wooden stairs have rotted away but Martyn lowers a rope ladder and the 5 willingly climb down into "the hole". Martyn then removes the ladder, closes and bolts the door. The 5 teens have told their parents that they have gone on a three long field trip to the mountains thus ensuring they will not be missed. Martyn told the group that once the field trip is over he will return and let the 5 out and won't everyone have a jolly good laugh. When the three days and nights have come and gone the teens realize that Martyn is not coming back after all and that nobody on the outside has any idea where they are. Food and water run scarce and emotions heat up turning the 5 against one another. Desperate to get out of the hole the teens begin to suspect that Martyn is a psychopath and the joke is on them. Allowing for the fact that the author wrote this book when he was only 18 years old it had an intriguingly creepy premise. However, the narrative jumped back and forth between the teens in the hole, someone writing the story after the fact and a friend of Martyn's who had no idea of his prank. Very very very confusing. There are questions left unanswered, one of them fairly large, and the ending, while clever, doesn't help this mess of a book. Omg. What a device. Three stars for what I thought it was (a little over, actually) and a whole extra star for being what it is. In a way, in regard to what it is - not the story, it put me in mind of a much shorter simpler version of Liar. Simple but imaginative and effective. I know this is very vague but its hard to really say anything about the story itself without spoilery risks. It's a quick read. Read it. inga recensioner | lägg till en recension
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It was the end of term at Our Glorious School. Most of the pupils were preparing to return home; some were going away on a geography field trip. But for five members of the sixth form, it sounded more fun to embark upon what their friend and mentor Martyn called 'an experiment with real life' - to spend three days together in The Hole, a windowless cellar room in an unfrequented part of the school buildings. Martyn was to lock them in, and in three days he would come and let them out again. At first, it all seemed quite a laugh - eating and drinking, jokes and banter. Solid Mike and dependable Liz, Geoff with his secret supplies of booze, irritating Frankie and delicate Alex - what a story they would have to tell when Martyn came to release them! How surprised and admiring their friends would be! But three days passed, and Martyn did not return... The Hole is a dark and menacing first novel, written when the author was still at school. Compulsive and claustrophobic in quality, it has been compared to John Fowles's The Collector. Inga biblioteksbeskrivningar kunde hittas. |
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This is a creepy, suspenseful, gripping read. Burt uses flashbacks of "the Hole" expertly to both lead the reader on and keep them guessing.
The last chapter adds a whole other dimension to the story, and was definitely a major twist. I thought it was really clever-I love an ending that has me thinking back through the book to see what I missed and how everything fits.
Some of the sections moved really slowly, especially some of the flashbacks in "the Hole" early on in the story.
This is a really quick read-it just took me a few hours-and a gripping, scary, interesting one. It's worth picking up. The movie version is really good, and is actually one of those very rare occasions when I prefer the movie slightly to the book ( )