FEVRE DREAM


Here´s the first post about a book.

Just so you have an idea of the background: I live in a country where the literate percentage of population must be close to zero. Books are really expensive, twice or three times the price I buy them on amazon. And yes, English isn´t my native language.....I´m sure the mistakes you found already or will find eventually will convey that particular point forward....also, I´m a bit dislexic...some words are just a jumble of words to me...so, that might be it also:P

Well, even so....George R.R. Martin is best known by his fantasy series "Song of ice and Fire", a magnum opus ( that means best work) of a couple of thousands pages which I read and loved to no end. MArtin whoever also wrote this book here - Fevre Dream - almost twenty years ago.

In three words, fevre dream is Vampires in Mississipi. Do you remember "Interview with the Vampire" featuring Banderas, Cruise and Pitt (and a very young Kirsten Dunst as the vampire daughter)? Well, this was written before that.

Martin has the talent to bring the great Mississipi to life: the damp haze of the river, the unquiet nights, runaway slaves and protuberante canines of pale gentleman waiting for them to slip to lung at them.  The writing is so dense but witty and flexible that after a bit you have that feeling that you ve been reading and feeling and smelling it for weeks now...

So, to make sure the point is clear: this is not twilight. This is Tom Sawyer if tom was a two hundred year old vampire hiding amidst the river waiting to kill someone to later on be seen on some saloon making courtsy to one of those blueyed NewOrleans Beauties.