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Not a bad collection of short stories but I was disappointed,if only because earlier in the year I read 'Let The Right One In' and I was blown away. This collection didn't come close to the quality of the earlier novel.I thought I would get more insight as to what happened to Oskar and Ellie from 'Let The Right One In', but even though the story 'Let The Old Dreams Die' mentioned them and took place in their original setting, it really wasn't focused on them nor did it end giving any clue to the...
Being a huge fan of "Let the Right one In", I thought to give this one a try, especially when I read that the final story in the book would be a sequel to it. Sequel is used very loosely here as it mentions the two main characters from that book, few details about them, their home, police investigation, and few other minor details. However, that story, titled “Let the Old Dreams Die”,is very unique and sad, making it my favorite in this collection. "Tindalos", "Majken", and “To Put My Arms Aroun...
I loved Lindqvist's Let the Right One In and I'm a fan of both the original and American film adaptations. That is why I was super excited when I saw a giveaway of Let the Old Dreams Die... and even more excited when I won :) I have to add that this rating is based on all the short stories except Final Processing as I have not yet gotten my hands on Handling the Undead. With that being said, as with all books of short stories there are some I enjoyed, some that were strange (in a good way!), and...
I am a massive fan of John Ajvide Lindqvist, I have loved all of his books so far and I cannot wait for his next one to be released. ‘Let the Old Dreams Die’ is a collection of stories which are surreal, complex, dark and as always, gives you an insight into the human psyche, where ordinary people experience the extraordinary. I was particularly looking forward to the stories ‘Let the Old Dreams Die’, where you find out what happened to Oskar and Eli from ‘Let The Right One In’ alongside a story...
I will review each story as I read them.1. BorderWhat a unique story!!! I'm still not entirely sure what to make of it. It tells the story of Tina, a scarred woman....physically and emotionally....who works as border security. She has a talent for knowing when someone is hiding something. She is very good at her job. Until she meets a strange man, who she's convinced is trying to smuggle something in, but all searches find nothing. There is something about this man that she can't put her finger
John Ajvide Lindqvist collection of short stories are compiled together from different sources to comprise 'Let The Old Dreams Die'. The stories range from love lost, to updates from his novels which include 'The Harbour', 'Let The Right One In' and 'Handling the Undead' which gives an insight to what happened either to the situation, the towns where the stories took place or to some of the characters. There is also stories included that have nothing to do with anything he has written before.For...
Even if I love John Ajvide Lindqvist it took a really long time for me to read this book, mainly because my friends told me that it's bad and unnecessary compared to his other work but I have to disagree. Maybe it is because I had low expectations but I really enjoyed reading the novels and it's interesting to see what a writer writes when it's not a "real novel". The pieces that I liked, I REALLY liked, for example Sommarprogram i P1 2006, Elda telefonkataloger, Tindalos and Tjejen. The eerie m...
A collection of weird tales, some of which I liked and some of which I have to admit went over my head. I did not care for the follow-up to Handling the Undead, which brings the story into a new paranormal realm that spoils the down-to-earth feel of the novel (of which it was meant to be a part, but was left out for reasons of length, and I think it was for the best.) However, the title story is very moving and makes for a sweet epilogue to Let the Right One In.
In let the Old Dreams Die, Lindqvist provides a set of compelling, twisted, and frightening short stories that I highly recommend. The tales range from unsettling, such as Border and Itsy Bitsy. To outright scary, Equinox. And occasionally deep meaningful and terrifying, Eternal/love.The majority of the stories are brilliant, Lindqvist has a talent for creating relatable characters in short spaces of time, although I do wonder at his focus on characters being snoops. Often the driving force of t...
I loved this short story collection. Some recent books (Harbor, I am Behind You) by this author have left me disappointed in his endings and I feel the short story format, by somehow taking pressure off “closure”, really suits him and brings out his best: haunting atmospheres, eerie and disturbing and gory happenings, broken characters. I expected the best stories would be the sequels/epilogues for “Let the Right one in” and “Handling the Undead”, but some of the other stories (Border, Majken, a...
A really uneven collection of short stories and novellas from Sweden's own Stephen King. It feels as if this is a filler book in wait for a new novel. The author himself has said that this is something he gave to the publishers so they would get off his case. He gace them stories that he really didn't like or feel were good enough and that feeling shines through in some of the stories. There is a new audio/mp3-book out that I'm planning to listen to, called Tjärven. I have a good feeling about i...
4* ...If you love Lindqvist; or really trippy, modern Lovecratian horror stories, then you'll probably like this one...in fact, some understanding of the mythos is necessary to fully appreciate some of these stories, otherwise some cannot be truly appreciated at all. I'm going to talk about the book as a whole first, before I move on to several incredible stories, mixed in with a few fillers. The majority of stories are very unusual...and quit entertaining! I actually was only interested in the
The Border - 5*A Village in the Sky - 4*Equinox - 4*Itsy Bitsy - 3*The Substitute - 3.5*Eternal/Love - 4.5*To Put My Arms Around You, to Music - ???Majken - 5*Paper Walls - 4.5* Tindalos - 5*Let the Old Dreams Die - 5**skipped one short story (Final Processing) because is the continuation of Handling the Undead which I haven't read yet.
Wow, this book took me a long time to read. Not in a bad way; it's just that Lindqvist's first collection of short stores, while beautifully written (and beautifully translated by Ebba Segerberg), is dense, with the majority of the dozen stories on the long side, some to good and others to not-so-great effect.Fortunately, there were only two stories I simply didn't care for in Let the Old Dreams Die. One, "To Put My Arms Around You, to Music," Linqvist admits in his amusing afterword, nobody but...
Overall a very good collection of stories. The first two in particular. I love how the author can mix the supernatural with the ordinary and make both creepy.I prefer my horror to be based on reality, or as close to realism as possible. And these stories have that element.I would recommend these to any horror fan.1 - Border (4.5/5)People are horrible, and this story is another glimpse of the nastiness inside people. The conversation between Jerry and Tina, so sad.Realistic things seeming a bit w...
i will keep this short as i don't really like to review books with short stories, plus i am quite ill at the moment and the thought of typing a lengthy reviews makes me feel even more sick than i already do :) in any case this is my first time reading Lindqvist so as you can understand i skipped the story based on the 'aftermath' of the 'let the right one in' just in fear that it might spoil things for me when i do get around to reading the book which I do intend to do, as for the others, some r...
I simply HAD to know what happened after Let The Right One In and this collection of stories has more than one that serves as an epilogue. I read the sequel story first which was called Let the Old Dreams Die and was actually the very last story in the book. I loved most of them but didn’t so much the others. The genre is horror, some stories employ that to the fullest and a couple don’t even come close. Almost all have yuck and stuff. I mean, is it a prerequisite? And I’m not talking the blood
Lindqvist’s first short fiction collection includes twelve stories with follow-ups to his first two novels, Let the Right One In and Handling the Undead. Most of the stories contain a supernatural element, some cosmic horror, and some rely on psychological horror. Either way, Lindqvist writes of a variety of weird occurrences involving relatable characters.“The Border”A woman who works for customs encounters a mysterious man and discovers the origins behind her own past. This was a unique story
After reading "Little Star" recently and being rather disappointed with it, I'm so glad I can say that I really enjoyed "Let The Old Dreams Die", right down to the Afterword. I'd say my favourite stories were "Substitute", "Eternal/Love" and the sequel to Handling The Undead, "The Final Processing", but I enjoyed all the stories here although I didn't understand "To hold you while the music plays" until I had re-read it with the (then) knowledge of what it was maybe actually about. And of course...