Into The Dark Forest - Elffor

The Dark Forest of the Soul (In a Dark Wood - Marcel Moring)

Advantages: original, clever, meaninful, deep, occasionally funny
Disadvantages: gimmicky, demanding, pretentious

the brim with drunken bikers and spectators, although flashbacks (and flashbacks within flashbacks too) abound. Throughout that night, throughout a town that became a peep-show and a nightmarish dream, from bar to bar, from the funfair to the electric bull, and into the woods that weave through the town and surround it, wanders Marcus Kolpa who has returned to find his lost first love, Jacob's daughter, Chaja. And so does wander Jacob, possibly dead or possibly alive, led by a mysterious figure, mystical and profane both; a pedlar calling himself the Jew of Assen. "In a Dark Wood" is a rich novel, overflowing with phantasmagoric imagery, dream and hallucinatory sequences and abundant symbolism. Inter-textual references recur throughout the text (with the Divine Comedy and Ulysses being the two most clearly identifiable reference ...

magdadh 23.06.2009 · Read full review
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Review of In a Dark Wood - Marcel Moring

Out of the dark and into the depths of despair....

Advantages: An excellent read, hard to put down!
Disadvantages: I have some concerns - see the review.

spending £20 each (and that's second-hand) on at this time. Then there's fiction books, and autobiographies specifically about self-harm. Ask me about any of these books and I'll tell you if they're worth reading or not. After these books there's the autobiographies where self-injury is a theme, but isn't the main theme. Books in this category include Elizabeth Wurtzel's "Prozac Nation", and Nick Johnstone's "A Head Full of Blue". These books don't sit on my self-injury bookshelf (yes, I have a dedicated self-injury book shelf), and Linda Cain's "Out of the Dark" will join them on my main bookshelf. I am specifically publishing this review today as tomorrow (1st March) is SIAD (Self-Injury Awareness Day). The Story I was really eager to get started reading this book. As with any autobiography with pictures I went ...

marymoose99 29.02.2008 · Read full review
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Review of Out of the Dark - Robin Royston, Linda Cain

A Deep, Dark Forest

Advantages: Heavy AND progressive
Disadvantages: Still fairly inaccessible

Cathedral’s first full length album was released in 1991, and was received by doom fans as a revelation. It’s awesome heaviness tempered by a touch of melancholy melody through the addition of flutes and pianos. The album intro, a mournful acoustic passage with a haunting flute melody, leads slowly into the dark and dingy realm of Commiserating the Celebration, the epic album opener. The double tracked guitars here give the song a greater depth than was the case with most of the songs on In Memoriam, but the vocals were as brutal as ever, if not more so. The riff is very slow at first but builds up to a more middling pace as the song goes on. This gives the song a rather merciless feeling to it, as the rhythm never lets up. Good use is made of Gary Jenning’s awesome skills as a lead guitarist, as usual. Ebony ...

Spongly 20.02.2001 · Read full review
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Review of Forest Of Equilibrium - Cathedral