We, The Infected

So folks here would recommend Up in Old Vermont?

I thought it was only OK. I liked that neither Oskar and Eli, nor Karin and Stefan, appeared directly in it. I've never much liked that kind of epilogue. However, I didn't feel much sympathy for or interest in the narrator, and I saw the twist coming, and I could see that there would be a twist mile...

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I liked Eternal / Love too, except the title. I liked Paper Walls . I thought the same as Nightrider about Majken . Only after the afterword did I get To hold you while the music plays , knowing that it's about crucifixion improves it, but still. I didn't like the ending of Equinox much, but the res...

I've read the first three stories, of which I thought Border was the best and Village on the Hill was the weakest, because the end was pretty conventional, the horror too Lovecraftian*. My only issue with Border was that, perhaps because I'm not familiar with troll folklore, it felt like there was a...

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I personally cannot stand the idea of things turning out like the events of "Oskar ar 40". I think unturned, this is exactly how things would have ended up. A miserable Oskar, a sad and confused Eli, and a relationship that is going down the tubes, soon to leave Eli alone again As hard as this is t...

I had actually thought of comparing Oskar and Eli to Charles Starkweather and Caril Ann Fugate . However, after looking into it a little bit, I quickly came to the conclusion that it was a shallow comparison, as I believe the comparison to Bonnie & Clyde to be as well. The two outlaw couples were n...

I don't really have much to add to this thread, as my views are essentially the same as Pete's. They become morally guilty, both of them, if Oskar is willingly turned. I do see this outcome as fairly realistic after the pool scene, but nevertheless unpalatable. To answer Wolfie's point, they owe not...

Surely Eli and Oskar have decisively turned their backs on humanity - the narrator is right to see them as predators. I can see why the narrator would see them that way but surely LTROI showed us that Eli has loads of humanity. More than most people. The predator side of Eli is a small part of Eli....