Αιχμηρά αντικείμενα
Gillian Flynn, 2012
★ 4.00 from 1.3m ratings on Goodreads
A reporter returns to the small town she fled, sent to cover two missing girls, and finds her own family waiting with its teeth bared. The mood is thick with dread and unease, and the voice pulls you through small-town cruelty with a sharp, curious edge.
Feels like dread, unease and curiosity. About madness and power.
Who it’s for
You may like it if you enjoy psychological suspense that stays close to family damage and unreliable memory. Be warned that many readers found it disturbing enough to feel physically unwell, and some were disappointed by its pacing and characters.
Why read it
It offers a tense, closely observed look at how a hometown can hold old wounds, with a reporter's eye that keeps the unease sharp.
A page from the book
The plainest object in a house can become the worst thing in it.
Από το βράδυ της εικοστής έκτης, * JonBenet Ramsey: Δολοφονήθηκε σε ηλικία 6 ετών και η υπόθεση παραμένει ανεξιχνίαστη. Είχε συμμετάσχει σε παιδικά καλλιστεία. RkJQdWJsaXNoZXIy MTY1MTE= Α Ι Χ Μ Η Ρ Α Α Ν Τ Ι Κ Ε Ι Μ Ε Ν Α 23 όταν διαπιστώθηκε ότι είχε χαθεί η μικρή, μια ομάδα έρευνας είχε αρχίσει να χτενίζει το δάσος. Τελικά τη βρήκαν τυχαία κάτι κυνηγοί, λίγο μετά τις πέντε τα χαράματα. Είχε στραγγαλιστεί γύρω στα μεσάνυχτα με ένα κοινό σκοινί μπουγάδας, τυλιγμένο διπλή θηλιά γύρω από τον λαιμό της. Μετά, την είχαν πετάξει στο ρέμα, που ήταν ρηχό λόγω της παρατεταμένης καλοκαιρινής ξηρασίας. Το σκοινί είχε σκαλώσει σε έναν πελώριο βράχο και η πνιγμένη έμεινε να λικνίζεται όλη νύχτα με το κυματάκι. What readers say
Readers often describe feeling disturbed, unsettled, and sometimes physically unwell, while many also found it gripping and memorable. Opinions split: some were disappointed by pacing and characters, others praised its dark psychological pull.
Gillian Flynn.Flynn wrote for Entertainment Weekly as its TV critic for years before Sharp Objects became her debut novel, published in 2006. The Greek edition you're reading carries a 2012 date.
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Questions readers ask
- Is Αιχμηρά αντικείμενα for me?
- You may like it if you enjoy psychological suspense that stays close to family damage and unreliable memory. Be warned that many readers found it disturbing enough to feel physically unwell, and some were disappointed by its pacing and characters.
- What is Αιχμηρά αντικείμενα like?
- The mood is thick with dread and unease, and the voice pulls you through small-town cruelty with a sharp, curious edge. Feels like dread, unease and curiosity. About madness and power.
- What should I read after Αιχμηρά αντικείμενα?
- If you liked Αιχμηρά αντικείμενα, try The Girl on the Train (Paula Hawkins), The Tommyknockers (Stephen King) and The Circle (Dave Eggers).
A taste of the feed
A home you can't stop looking at, even though it hurts.
I lived at number twenty-three Blenheim Road for five years, blissfully happy and utterly wretched. I can’t look at it now. That was my first home. Not my parents’ place, not a flatshare with other students, my first home. I can’t bear to look at it. Well, I can, I do, I want to, I don’t want to, I try not to. Every day I tell myself not to look, and every day I look. I can’t help myself, even though there is nothing I want to see there, even though anything I do see will hurt me.
The Girl on the Train · Paula Hawkins
Every name we give a thing is a small act of surrender.
“There really isn’t an Altair-4, just as there aren’t really any Tommyknockers. There aren’t any nouns for some things - they just are. Somebody pastes one name on those things in one place, somebody pastes on another someplace else. It’s never a very good name, but it doesn’t matter. You came back from New Hampshire talking about Tommyknockers, so here that’s what we are. We’ve been called other things in other places. Altair-4 has, too. It’s just a place where things get stored. Usually not live things. Attics can be cold, dark places.”
The Tommyknockers · Stephen King
When a friend's idea is so strange you start diagnosing him.
I think it was at that moment that I first began to entertain doubts as to Robin’s sanity. Not that people dining near would have noticed anything amiss with him: his voice was low-pitched and quiet. But the whole idea was so utterly far-fetched and fantastic that I couldn’t help wondering if his brilliant brain hadn’t crossed that tiny bridge which separates genius from insanity. I knew the hideous loathing he had always felt for war: was it possible that continual brooding on the idea had unhinged him?
The Final Count · H. C. McNeile
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