Which scene in the book creeped you out the most? (Spoilers)

[sauvin]

All this apocolypical talk, you make it sound like Eli is the worst. He's only a 12 year old vampire struggling to survive on blood, that was all. He never wanted this, he went through [deleted], and he didn't want people to become vampires. Granted, the idea of dead friends and family members is horrible and none of us would want it, but neither did Eli. note that the last thing Eli did to get blood was from Tommy by getting him to donate his blood to Eli. It's likely to me that Eli is trying to change things for the better as well as not to leave dead bodies. Granted, Tommy is Oskar's friend, and wouldn't want to upset him. Vampire attack doesn't seem to haunting as the idea of a sexual predator walking among us, targeting their victims. I can be wrong.

I swing back and forth, sometimes I'd rather have the molesters, somes I'd rather have the vampires. Depends on just how sour and curmudgeonly I feel when I honk on the "quote" button.

Let's do a little math, shall we? Let's say that Eli eats three people a week, but doesn't kill them. Let's also say that even a fully grown man turned vampire will also only eat three people a week. Let's furthermore posit zero attrition and zero victim kill. At the end of the first week, there are now four vampires. At the end of the second, twelve. At the end of the third, thirty six. At the end of one month, a hundred and eight.

Wanna guess what state the world is going to be in at the end of the year? Lombano ain't joking when he talks about a vampire apocalypse. If the novel's premise concerning attrition is operative, it'd obviously not be quite so rapid, but the potential devastation ONE little twelve year old vampire could wreak is untenable.

And now, for something completely different: consider that some people might consider the vampire a kind of metaphor for child molester.

Edit: 5 Novembre 2011, replaced a "bad word" with [deleted] to comply with renewed restrictions on language.

[lombano]

All this apocolypical talk, you make it sound like Eli is the worst. He's only a 12 year old vampire struggling to survive on blood, that was all. He never wanted this, he went through hell, and he didn't want people to become vampires. Granted, the idea of dead friends and family members is horrible and none of us would want it, but neither did Eli. note that the last thing Eli did to get blood was from Tommy by getting him to donate his blood to Eli. It's likely to me that Eli is trying to change things for the better as well as not to leave dead bodies. Granted, Tommy is Oskar's friend, and wouldn't want to upset him. Vampire attack doesn't seem to haunting as the idea of a sexual predator walking among us, targeting their victims. I can be wrong.

I am arguing that Eli causes more harm than a child molester, not that Eli is more evil than a child molester.

[cory]

The way she killed jocke was so disturbing and creepy. The author was making it clear just how powerful Eli is. He crushed him like an anaconda and turned his head 180 degrees.

[DMt.]

Tommy shut in with zombie Hakan creeped me out the most in the book, I think.

[thestich]

Zombie Hakan.

The rest seem to pale into the background for me.

Almost gives me the "cold shudders" thinking about it.

[nangijala]

- Toothless kid scene.

- Newly turned Virginia thinking about her daughter in law's bloody vag after giving birth.

- The doctor comparing Håkan's remains to a chopped up eel, still twisting and moving around...

[ofelia]

by nangijala » Wed Jul 20, 2011 11:20 am

- Toothless kid scene.

- Newly turned Virginia thinking about her daughter in law's bloody vag after giving birth.

Yeah, in the first 50 or so pages I actually paused and said to myself, if this gets any worse I don't think I can read the whole thing.
But then Oskar and Eli met.
The horror details really didn't bother me but when I came to that part about Virginia I thought that's one of the most disgusting things I ever read.

[lombano]

by nangijala » Wed Jul 20, 2011 11:20 am

- Toothless kid scene.

- Newly turned Virginia thinking about her daughter in law's bloody vag after giving birth.

Yeah, in the first 50 or so pages I actually paused and said to myself, if this gets any worse I don't think I can read the whole thing.
But then Oskar and Eli met.
The horror details really didn't bother me but when I came to that part about Virginia I thought that's one of the most disgusting things I ever read.

Agreed on all points. I came very close to quitting at the library scene.

[the_value_of_x]

The part where Oskar was almost tossed onto the subway tracks creeped me out the most.

[Theinfected914]

The character of Hakan. What a scumbag he was. Poor little Oskar has no friends. He makes one, and Hakan tries to order Eli not to see him just so that they could be together. That scene reminds me a lot of the movie: American Beauty. The part where Lester is having a dream about his daughter's friend. That scene was disturbing. Disturbing in that a grown man in his 40's is having these kinds of thoughts for someone he's twice as old as.