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The books feature a written story accompanied by photographs that the series' characters uncover during the course of the story. Dan's interest in history and psychiatry drives his research into the asylum's past. Intensely vivid descriptions and photographs bring home the full horror of what used to happen to unfortunate patients.

Ligotti is known more for telling Lovecraftian tales that are connected as much to dreams as they are to curious realities. McGrath is doing something altogether different. Dennis Heimline: Previous patient of Brookline Asylum who was a serial killer called the "Sculptor" because he posed his victims with ropes and wires. He was "cured" then disappeared after the asylum was shut down. This story is a warning: the mind can make bad plays when entering an underworld where nothing is what it seems and is experienced with it. There will always be consequences ... And they will not be pleasant at all Synopsis [ edit ] Asylum (2013) [ edit ] Struggente e passionale, un romanzo dallo stile gotico che ruba mente e cuore sin dalle primissime pagine.Non vi siete immedesimati? Allora avete potuto assistere, senza coinvolgimenti di sorta, alla bella e tormentata storia narrata in "Follia".

It was a house for those who could not take care of themselves, for those who heard voices, who had strange thoughts and did strange things. The house was meant to keep them in. Once they came, they never left.” sicuramente una lettura interessante, l'ho finito in pochi giorni proprio perché è molto scorrevole e ha una storia accattivante, nonostante questo ha qualche difetto, in particolare a livello stilistico non è questo gran capolavoro... i dialoghi e la vicenda sono a tratti irrealistici e troppo melodrammatici, così come posso dire che ho sentito molto la "mano dello scrittore".

Asylums: Essays on the Condition of the Social Situation of Mental Patients and Other Inmates is a 1961 collection of four essays by the sociologist Erving Goffman. The book comprises four free-standing essays On the Characteristics of Total Institutions, The Moral Career of the Mental Patient, The Underlife of a Public Institution and The Medical Model and Mental Hospitalization. Tuttavia, devo ammettere che il consiglio della biblioteca si è rivelato valido: “Follia” mi ha mozzato il respiro, mi ha chiusa in una morsa di terrore puro dall'inizio alla fine, e dall'inizio alla fine ho sentito i battiti del cuore mentre le pagine scorrevano via, una dopo l’altra. Did you know you can flag iffy content? Adjust limits for Drinking, Drugs & Smoking in your kid's entertainment guide. Get started Close Quando l’ho afferrato dallo scaffale della biblioteca non mi sono accorta che era fra le proposte di lettura del mese, e un piccolo foglietto sbucava dalla prima pagina, con l’indicazione “Piccola farmacia letteraria”:

McGrath may even be an acquired taste, though not for me. I liked him immediately. That may be because I started off with the right book. Avevo buone aspettative per questo romanzo. Avevo sentito parlare bene di McGrath, del suo stile e delle sue storie. E questa storia sembrava promettere bene, almeno a giudicare dalla quarta di copertina e, perchè no, dal primo centinaio di pagine. Purtroppo l'impressione era destinata a mutare molto presto. Cleave is narrating the novel, yes, but he is doing so after discussions with Stella, after something has apparently gone badly wrong, and the impending sense of doom only adds to the novel's complexity. Not that Asylum is a mystery. It isn't. Edgar murdered his wife. He escapes from the asylum. Stella goes to him. Nothing surprising here. When Edgar begins exhibiting erratic behavior, though, she runs. However, the story doesn't take the reader into the places you'd think it would. Stella is not repentant. Instead, she feels torn from her lover and sorrowful that she ever suspected his behavior. Willing, even after knowing the full extent of his crime, to go to him and be with him, and Cleave notes this:Questa storia è raccontata dallo psicanalista di Sara, che si è infatuata di un uomo pericolosissimo e la cui mente pian piano va alla deriva in questa sua malata storia d'amore.

Great Role Models: Each of the characters has their flaws, making it more realistic. They're brave, but irresponsible, (4/5) Just as Edgar seems to relish the idea of bedding a psychiatrist's wife, so too does Stella enjoy her role as caretaker. Edgar is ill; therefore, Stella must take care of him, even if it means abandoning her husband and her child. The child she increasingly grows to resent because he is part of his father and therefore part of the imagined trap she feels exists around her. Abby Valdez: A girl Dan's age who is studying Art at the New Hampshire College Prep for the summer. She's described as being "petite, with large brown eyes and creamy olive skin". [3] She is Dan's love interest.The series follows sixteen-year-old Dan Crawford, who was chosen to attend a prestigious college preparatory summer program in New Hampshire. Once there he befriends two other teens, Abby and Jordan, with whom he explores an old psychiatric hospital that has been re-purposed into a student dormitory. However, what they find ends up drawing them into old and disturbing recurring events. In the way, they will uncover the secrets that link them to the terrifying things that happen inside the Asylum walls. After experiencing the mental illness of person close to him first-hand (presumably his first wife who committed suicide in 1964) Goffman remarked this book would have been "very different" had he written it after the experience. [2] See also [ edit ] Doesn't bother me to know where a book's going. This one just didn't go to a place I was interested in. It all wraps up in perfect late 1940's film style (though it's set in 1959) and is a good book. It's just not a great book. Follia, follia, follia sono diventata folle io qua? Non dico che non mi sia piaciuto, alla fine credo di averlo letto anche mentre dormivo ed ho bruciato pure le melanzane, ma niente....Stella mi è stata sulle balle quasi da subito e pure la voce narrante di Peter, viscida ed egocentrica, era bravo solo lui praticamente. Sexual obsession, decapitation, enucleation, maternal filicide, psychological unraveling. Or what we call Thursday around here.