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Type of bind: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN num: 9780312865832
ISBN number: 031286583X
Label: Tor Books
Manufacturer: Tor Books
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 320
Printing Date: January 15, 1998
Publishing house: Tor Books
Sale Popularity Level: 78757
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Think you know true fear? You don't.
Think you've read the most chilling book? Not even close.
Think you can't be shocked? Good luck!
Maybe you're ready for the most truly frightening reading experience of your life, the World Fantasy Award-winning novel that's been terrifying readers for over a decade.
Song of Kali.
Amazon.com Review:
'O terrible wife of Siva / Your tongue is drinking the blood, / O dark Mother! O unclad Mother.' It is remarkable that prior to writing this very first novel, Dan Simmons had spent only two and a half days in Calcutta, a city 'too wicked to be suffered,' his narrator says. Fortunately back in print after several years during which it was hard to obtain, this rich, bizarre novel practically reeks with atmosphere. The story concerns an American poet who travels with his Indian wife and their baby to Calcutta to pick up an epic poem cycle about the goddess Kali. The Bengali poet who wrote the poem cycle has disappeared under mysterious circumstances.
Horror critic Edward Bryant calls Song of Kali 'an exactingly constructed, brutal, and uncompromising study of the degree to which an evil place may permeate and steep all that makes us human' and writes that it embodies 'the stance of a psychologically violent novel about a violent society as a defensible and indisputably moral work of art.' Song of Kali won a World Fantasy Award. --Fiona Webster
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When poet Bobby Luczak is asked to go to Calcutta in search of the poet M. Das, he ignores friends' warnings and of course, says yes. His wife and infant daughter accompany him on what is to be something less than the perfect family holiday. M. Das has been missing for eight years, but recent reports suggest that the man is still alive and that there are unpublished works to be found. Luczak begins to suspect that it may be a scam, but the truth of the matter is far more horrifying.
A haunting tale that will stick with readers long after it's finished. Highly recommended!
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This is book for real horror/splatterpunk fans, not people like me who read fiction or combination of epic fiction and thrillers.
Book is set in India, where I have never been and I really don't know if morbid underground cults and human sacrifices described in book exist, but book just sucks you in those unpleasant places and you feel as if you are witness to them.
All in all, this book reminds me of Clive Barker's early story 'Midnight meat train' from 'Books of Blood' and is too scary for me!
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The strength of this book is its stunning power of setting: the misery and festering evil that is this version of Calcutta. The scenes live and breathe and are vicarious fun to drift through - just like a movie.
However, the hero is extremely unlikable, constantly exploding like a five year-old prone to tantrums and impulsive behavior. Also, the plot has real credibility problems. Why did the hero take his wife and baby to such an awful place as Calcutta? He knew he was inconveniencing his wife (a math professor who had work to do), and he also knew that she, while Indian, was not steeped in the right culture to serve as an effective interpreter and guide for him.
Why? Well, obviously to put them in danger as a clumsy plot device. Ultimately, the plot problems capsize the interest of the setting. I wouldn't recommend this one unless you want to try a library copy first.
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After reading the Hyperion and Iluim novels, I approached Kali with high expectations and was frankly disappointed. Maybe I'm jaded by images of human sacrifice, but reading Kali was like reading the novelization of "Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom," minus the comedy.
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I picked this up to read on the plane during a recent vacation and couldn't put it down. Simmons' writing never fails to engage the reader. Song of Kali started off a little slow, but picks up the pace and drags you in; and down to places you probably don't want to go.
It would have rated 5 stars, but it seemed Simmons felt the need to soften the finale, which seemed a little out of place. Overall, this is an excellent story, and not one for the squeemish.
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