Floating Dragon

Humpsted threatens soft suburban towns.

One is natural. Madness that cannot be stopped by human power created.

The second is definitely not natural. And the first is guided by the joy of children, compared to him.

Page 595, paperback

Published in the first edition of January 1, 1982

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Peter Straub

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Peter Stravure was born in Miloki, Wisconsin, in a home of Gordon Anthony Strhab and Ersestoen (Nirthes Toru).

The founder hoped that he would be a professional athlete, and his mother wanted him to be a ruta priest. He got a scholarship and studied at the Milwar Key Country Day School and started running while studying.

In 1965, the strav was acquired the Baccaraf Level British in Wisconsin Madison Institute, and a year later in Colombia Institute in Colombia Institute. For a while, he taught English at Milwear Country Day School, moved to Dublin, Ireland in 1969, and acquired the level of philosophy and graffiti masters.

In the mi d-1970s, a filler was composed of ordinary novels ("Marriage" and "Under Venus"), and after various splashes of "2", the strav is the first to write "Juliet" (1975). I turned my eyes. After that, I wrote the romance novel "If I could meet you now" (1977), and in my fifth work, "History of Ghost" (1979), gained a great deal of interest in the masses and gained a great success among critics. , Later it was filmed in 1981. Later, he announced horror novels such as "Talisman" and "Black House" and achieved great success.

In addition to many novels, he published a certain number of poetic works in his life.

In 1966, Strhab married Susan Baitcar. His daughter Emma Strhab is also known as a writer. Dublin from 1969 to 1972, London from 1972 to 1979, and in New York since 1979.

On September 4, 2022, he died at the age of 79 due to complications of fractures on his feet. At the time of his death, he lived in Brooklyn, New York with his wife.

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Meanwhile, I have returned to Peter Straub to find out what horror is. This writer questions not only that these are horrors, but also how they are presented. "Floating Dragon" is a striking example: it not only exposes our fears, but also plays with them.

PlotSerial murders, disappearances, death of children in mysterious circumstances. This only happens once a generation, and only those who know the history of this city know this pattern well (you can count them on one hand). It's time for the horror to start again. Only this time, it coincides with an industrial accident, which releases a biological weapon in a very unstable stage into the atmosphere. The results are horrifying. The gas has hallucinogenic and psychotropic effects (think military LSD), and in extreme cases causes extremely grotesque illnesses.

From the author's introductionSelf-restraint and sense are forbidden, and aesthetics are based on a single principle: redundancy.

ThoughtsI'm grateful to Straub. He never shows his disgrace.Spray tankToo cruel. This is a good thing, because once you start shocking the audience and forcing them into submission, all other considerations (like good characters) fly out the window. I agree with other reviewers that the overall thrill and plot presentation is very similar to IT.

The pacing of The Floating Dragon is better than other Ostrov novels I've read. It's three parts, each dependent on the previous one, which keeps the pace going. The characters are very well developed, as always. This is a surprising romance, probably one of the worst I've read. There are certainly a lot of strange images, but that's because the line between reality and fantasy becomes more and more blurred as the plot unfolds. The reader is often left deciding, "What on earth just happened?"

Horror romance has a high degree of perfection, so you can understand it, and it's rather skillful. However, warn. Everything is very strange as you get closer to the last. Complete madness and accident may not satisfy everyone. If you read only one stravu romance, it should probably be the "Ghost History", but if you read another book, it should probably be this novel.

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Wealth, don't believe in wealth, gold can't buy health, physics must decline, everything is over, plague passes quickly, I have to die-I die. I have to die-I have to die-I have to die!

Lord, mercy on us

First impression

2021 was the year I was so immersed in Peter Strav. After reading the fantastic "COCO" and the completely wonderful "History of Ghosts", I immediately found that the writer was in the midst of literary talent. This man's prose is like a horror section, albeit a doorstop novel, pops out of the horror section.

Published in 1982 and was recommended by a book called "Floating Dragon", which was called "Fear from Balda," I wasn't really excited. It doesn't like the complete horror that evil existence horrifies a small town. So I had to remember Steven King's masterpieces, Saylam Lot, Information Technology, and Night Things.

The action of the novel "Floating Dragon" will be deployed in a wealthy American town called Hamsted, Connecticut, located near New York. History is equally linked to both this place and the characters, and Ostrab has created a wonderful depiction, perfectly created residents, and a lot of interest backgrounds. The town has the same personality as the people living there and is lively.

"The fear of Humpsted became a fear of the soul, beyond the fear of safety and the fear of safety and the carrier to strangers. The city seemed to be punishing themselves. "

The story begins when Stonai Fried Good, who picked up a mysterious man in a local bar, was killed. At the same time, a bloody massacre occurred, and her husband was releasing a lethal chemical substance from a supe r-intense object working for the army. Evil is rooted in Hump Steus, and the battle against evil is on the shoulders of four locals.

One of the main characters is Graham Williams, who knows that the gas is only part of a much more insidious evil. A lot happens in the early part of the film, interweaving the horrors of Straub with the everyday life of the town. It's a pretty outrageous plot that combines extreme and terrifying set pieces, especially the mind-blowing gas effects, with subtle and sinister bits. It's crazy, but undeniably effective and a lot of fun.

The book is full of original and eccentric characters. There are four main characters: Richard Albee, a former child actor haunted by events from his past and struggling to let go; Tabby Smithfield, a teenager with a loser father who threatens to ruin not only his life but the lives of those unlucky around him; and Patsy McLeod, a quirky, introverted woman with a hidden secret and a survivor of domestic violence. Finally, perhaps my favorite character, Graham Williams, is an aging retired writer struggling with alcoholism and trying to revive his failing career. Yes, Straub uses a Stephen King trick to center most of the story on fellow writers: writing down what you know.

And then there's the mysterious villain Gideon Winter, a sinister figure from Hampstead's past who looms large as the events unfold. In previous books, we've seen that Straub is an absolute master of puzzle-solving, planting clues in seemingly nonsensical exchanges that ultimately work to satisfying effect. He uses that skill brilliantly to create the mystery of Winter and the chaos he causes.

The people of Hampstead have their eyes sewn shut, and strange visions that dance inside their eyelids sometimes delight them, sometimes put them to sleep.

But wait, Straub doesn't stop here. He also populates Hampstead with a supporting cast that brings the story to life and provides fresh meat when things go wrong. Shocking events await the residents.

The Lion is Free

Writing

As with all of Straub's books, there is a lot to be said about the craft of writing. The man is an incredibly gifted writer. To put it bluntly, his prose is probably the best in the horror genre.

Swimming Dragon "Swimming Dragon" is more than usual because the author uses a fairly authentic and fearless way. Strhaub starts a story in a third person, but uses a person named Graham Williams and speaks many of his first person. The great success for me is that Graham should be a writer, and this part is treated as if he is managing the situation. If you hate Steven King who did similar things in Christine, you would hate this book.

"Under the hypocrisy of these tweets is a crazy, intentional urgency feeling, and not decent."

But the prose itself-Oh, how wonderful! The stroved has almost poetic style, sometimes a dreamy atmosphere to wake up, and sometimes it is so real. If you are looking for a person who tells fear at the same level as this young man, it will take a long time to find him. His ability to convey doubt and fear while making such a desperate set is really wonderful.

Last impression

As you can see, I really liked Floating Dragon. But here is my trivial criticism. This book is not as good as the two books I have read in the past ("A GHOST STORY" and "COCO"). The main cause is that the book actually imposes all the fears of fear. Nevertheless, sometimes it was a bit confusing, and the reader felt that his head could be pure white.

In addition, this book has been rewritten without complaints, thanks to the unmistakable literary talent. Certainly, it would be possible to reduce it to be more sharp. In this genre, I have seen some professional creators doing this, such as King and Dan Simmons, but never in Robert Macamon.

And after all, almost all of them were wonderful books. In fact, I believe in "information technology" and "stand". The end of this book is somewhat outstanding. But I explain this to how good the rest is.

Because they talk about Steven King's IT, these two books have a lot in common. Frankly, for example, I don't mean to testify for them, for example, how impressive they are. For example, it is not easy to be the source of the world's largest horror novel.

Overall rating is 4. 5, just a step away from a perfect 5. If you are a fan of theirs, it is almost essential to read horror. Enter!

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This book was pretty good. In fact, it seemed to me that there was enough gloom in this book. In fact, I dreamed that some time would be spent before anything really started to happen. I think this was what the reader needed to understand who the heroes really are. I started to root for some of them. There were some parts where the situation was a little complicated and confusing. Not only that, but I seriously started to think that maybe I'm not very smart to recite Peter Straub. This is my second book by Peter Straub (third if you include "Talisman" etc.) and I think I'll be following in his footsteps with a conclusion in mind until I try to read more of his books. I even like that he is simply seen in the fabric of horror in his own work. I still dreamed that he did a great job of conveying the atmosphere of a small town. (At the same time, how to give myself a little big city because I haven't spent much time in a little big city) Overall, I believe the story was perfectly crafted. In fact, I think the imagery was rich and dramatic. I look forward to a proper Peter Straub book.

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If Peter Straub does another feature with Stephen King, I will definitely read his other works. If not, this is goodbye.

The book "Slowal Moving Dragon" was a languid test, and one of the few books in recent years that I read to the end without paying attention to the fact that I actually experienced the last 200 or so very puzzling pages inside.

But let's start from the beginning-actually, the beginning was good! This book was recommended by my professional friends, Edward Loan (and I could not show this skill with almost no shadow or shap e-I was actually his advice Listening, when time came, as it came, it was more obligatory to put a book on the shelf, as it came. I brought this book on a shor t-term business trip, including two trains and four flights on an airplane, but thanks to that, I can jump into this book quickly, and it's enough to keep reading this book. I think I was able to get joy. Genera l-They, in fact, they encourage you for the best profits and vigilance. There is no sufficient comment, the characters are not very belonging, and the situation is immediately promoted with another instruction. From the beginning, I was wondering if it was a process of writing in the rust of this boo k-he had the accurate consciousness of the situation, the beginning, half, and the end of the end? I was still interested in his edito r-was he with him?

The prose is mysterious (even the press is inexplicable. In my publication, there is not enough snow on each page. Naturally, it increases the feeling of crawling in the development of the situation). The story is not bad, but it is a rare catch in Chapter 3 in Part 1:

Instinct gives me an idea, in fact, the time understands what his letters do, and the god where all of his characters are actually done in all times and [...] It is the moment that goes from below the narrator cover like this. This pose has already creeped, and I have never told myself.

To me, this is unpleasant, bulky and incoherent. For example, a narrator (clearly) reads for himself with his third eyesight, or a considerable number of people-third eyesight-I am in one of the countless examples of the president, and every time I think about this, "Oh. Yes, how does it work in this era, "This is more incomprehensible, and this" device "is only occasionally used.

Did you know why I wanted to draw this series of events in the first person: [In fact, it doesn't make any sense for me. -In the end, the fair narrator becomes redundant and is full of deception for you and for me. -When you are?

And what is hidden in the last question is my biggest violation of this book. After that, more than 600 pages in my head have no one. Each person of the characters is severely hurt many times in hallucinations and hallucinations, and cannot be remembered at all when who actually died. And you don't really care what will happen, including the fact that they may actually be real when the characters do not have any emotions.

Part 1 and Part 2 are probably my absolute interests (and the precedent being basically a dut y-free catalog) and a certain amount of plot movement (about 160-170 pages, respectively) It was not bad. In Volume 3, the numbering is within 250 pages of the Paso that moved the plot in December (it goes without saying that the name "Taby" was pronounced as one of the ridiculous numbers-who has an electricity at hand. If so, please tell me the job of Sijifus (even if his job was a little different, for example, he had to sink the slope over and over again).

I don't think I'm a lazy reader, but when there are a lot of exciting and thrilling books in the world, for example, I don't have enough power to get out of PS.

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Oh, affectionate kids, great, how wonderful you were, why you were very fast, weak, and suffered from people, but your powerful heart decides a mischievous dragon in that retreat. Ta? -Sherry

Great narration, 5-star letters and ideal letters, it is not strange that I do not want it, so about 600 pages need to end.

You had a long dream and didn't see it. I slept in an unknown space, and when I woke up, I was another person.

"Floating dragon" is a terrible, sometimes ugly, monster, sometimes occult, hel l-like book like a double hell.

A man named Gideon Winter, called Dragon, came to Hamsted 300 years ago, causing evil triggers. Low luggage begins to appear. It's pretty bad.

They say, even worse people do not happen. The devil is not so, they speak ... For example, does this space create evil, or does evil choose a place?

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Stephen King talked about Peter Stravage, a late friend, and strongly praised the possibility of Strabe's prose. Both Talisman and Black House have read and read, but Ostrab has never read.

The Floating Dragon is its thematic cousin and another of my favorite books. However, they are different and The Floating Dragon has the perfect prose that King talks about. It is not only a fantastical horror with a fantastical feel, but also an enjoyable read. I have always loved the subject matter of Foundlings and it seems to be well utilized here. The ending is an interesting choice that leaves the reader with room to think, so I have been thinking about it ever since I read it.

Overall, a very good work, but a little too much.

** A little Easter egg for those who are interested in such things: Richard mentions attorney Phil Sawyer because that is why he continues to receive payment from his work as a child actor. Phil Sawyer is the father of Jack Sawyer, who appears in The Talisman.

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As a constant reader of the horror genre, The Floating Dragon was one of the most original pieces of ghost town history I have ever read. There's nothing really new here (if we're talking about 1980s horror), but Straub paints a fresh picture of some of the genre's most hackneyed paths: ghosts, zombies, ancient curses, chemical outbreaks, psychos, psychics, etc. That "kill two birds with one stone" approach might not please horror fans.

For me, it was a horrifying novel that left me missing dreams many times because of my slow reading, or lying in bed wide awake and unable to sleep while horrific images were sown in my head. I really sympathized with the poor doomed people of the town of Ghost Hampstead, where evil literally lurks around every corner. This is the mark of a truly great horror novel.

She's also extremely good at writing. Her ostrich prose draws you in with evocative imagery that never distracts. You never had to stop and imagine what was going on against the backdrop of all this madness. Each character had a voice, and as the tension and atmosphere of horror in the story slowly built, I worried about what was happening to them. And it grew. And it grew.

This book is a mus t-read book for fans of the King Economic Poetry, where many protagonists and secondary characters are active in the atmosphere of a rural town. Dozens of protagonists appeared literally, and each story is somewhat independent. Therefore, it is recommended that you finish reading in a short time. Otherwise, you will soon become unknown what will happen to the characters who have never been said for a long time. But don't be afraid of it. Don't be distracted. That way, you'll be rewarded in a story that will experience absolute fear while reading, want to read ahead when you get off, and be satisfied after completion.

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After the success of "History of Ghost" and "Trealand", Peter Strhab wanted to challenge a story unrelated to supernatural things. "The Floating Dragon" published in 1983 has long been his last horror novel, but until he returned to this genre in "Mr. X" in 1999.

The novel, "Floating Dragon", is drawn on a regular canvas called "Fear of a small town", which gained popularity in "Sailem Lot" in the 1970s. Sailem Rot was simple, quick, and speedy, while the novel of the floating dragon was much longer, much more complicated, and much more clogged. Except for the same decoration, they are different from day and night.

In the preface to my publication, Strhaub wrote about the intention and method of creating the work. This paragraph expresses the identity of "Floating Dragon".

"Our, ancient curse, superb power, no n-organism, fear, natural fire, fantastic hints, people who unite with special families, ghosts, predation animals, and fascinating mirrors to fight terrible literature. At the vampir e-like presence, external fear, all of these, the screams of metaphors in reality, at the level just below the consciousness, I divide all these expensive and strange images and in a huge bag. I wrapped it ... I decided to explode!

And, as one man said, he did. However, as he pointed out later, the "floating dragon" is far from a hack, which is often associated with generators of this genre. This is a set of decorations that gradually increase, and eventually leads to Frank Madness. < SPAN> This book is a mus t-read book for King's fans who have many protagonists and secondary characters in the atmosphere of rural towns. Dozens of protagonists appeared literally, and each story is somewhat independent. Therefore, it is recommended that you finish reading in a short time. Otherwise, you will soon become unknown what will happen to the characters who have never been said for a long time. But don't be afraid of it. Don't be distracted. That way, you'll be rewarded in a story that will experience absolute fear while reading, want to read ahead when you get off, and be satisfied after completion.

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After the success of "History of Ghost" and "Trealand", Peter Strhab wanted to challenge a story unrelated to supernatural things. "The Floating Dragon" published in 1983 has long been his last horror novel, but until he returned to this genre in "Mr. X" in 1999.

The novel, "Floating Dragon", is drawn on a regular canvas called "Fear of a small town", which gained popularity in "Sailem Lot" in the 1970s. Sailem Rot was simple, quick, and speedy, while the novel of the floating dragon was much longer, much more complicated, and much more clogged. Except for the same decoration, they are different from day and night.

In the preface to my publication, Strhaub wrote about the intention and method of creating the work. This paragraph expresses the identity of "Floating Dragon".

"Our, ancient curse, superb power, no n-organism, fear, natural fire, fantastic hints, people who unite with special families, ghosts, predation animals, and fascinating mirrors to fight terrible literature. At the vampir e-like presence, external fear, all of these, the screams of metaphors in reality, at the level just below the consciousness, I divide all these expensive and strange images and in a huge bag. I wrapped it ... I decided to explode!

And, as one man said, he did. However, as he pointed out later, the "floating dragon" is far from a hack, which is often associated with generators of this genre. This is a set of decorations that gradually increase, and eventually leads to Frank Madness. This book is a mus t-read book for fans of the King Economic Poetry, where many protagonists and secondary characters are active in the atmosphere of a rural town. Dozens of protagonists appeared literally, and each story is somewhat independent. Therefore, it is recommended that you finish reading in a short time. Otherwise, you will soon become unknown what will happen to the characters who have never been said for a long time. But don't be afraid of it. Don't be distracted. That way, you'll be rewarded in a story that will experience absolute fear while reading, want to read ahead when you get off, and be satisfied after completion.

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After the success of "History of Ghost" and "Trealand", Peter Strhab wanted to challenge a story unrelated to supernatural things. "The Floating Dragon" published in 1983 has long been his last horror novel, but until he returned to this genre in "Mr. X" in 1999.

The novel, "Floating Dragon", is drawn on a regular canvas called "Fear of a small town", which gained popularity in "Sailem Lot" in the 1970s. Sailem Rot was simple, quick, and speedy, while the novel of the floating dragon was much longer, much more complicated, and much more clogged. Except for the same decoration, they are different from day and night.

In the preface to my publication, Strhaub wrote about the intention and method of creating the work. This paragraph expresses the identity of "Floating Dragon".

"Our, ancient curse, superb power, no n-organism, fear, natural fire, fantastic hints, people who unite with special families, ghosts, predation animals, and fascinating mirrors to fight terrible literature. At the vampir e-like presence, external fear, all of these, the screams of metaphors in reality, at the level just below the consciousness, I divide all these expensive and strange images and in a huge bag. I wrapped it ... I decided to explode!

And, as one man said, he did. However, as he pointed out later, the "floating dragon" is far from a hack, which is often associated with generators of this genre. This is a set of decorations that gradually increase, and eventually leads to Frank Madness.

Like Love, The Floating Dragon also shows all the advantages of Ostrich: the talent for characterization and mood creation, the meticulous attention to the components, the thorough atmosphere creation and injection. The fantastic town of Hampstead becomes reality. It is inhabited by people of various origins, who hunt the most diverse.

The name "The Floating Dragon" is a PO of Perl. It can be seen in the original layout of Ostrich: the introduction of two fears in exchange for the first. The first is the poisonous gas emanating from the laboratory, the cloud of which precipitates in the sky above Hampstead. And the second ... but I'll leave it to you to find it autonomously.

The recess of the prologue has the potential for a somewhat silly rise, but love itself is not considered: this is a significant, well-written piece of novel that will appeal to anyone ready to eliminate feelings of disbelief. The plot of Ostrub is captured and inhabited by fascinating characters, but they are not considered it, for fear of giving him a nonsensical sound. The climax of "Floating Dragon" is a moment of truly honest recklessness, but the journey to the boards of Straub's elegant prose makes it worth it.

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This book was beautiful. When I accepted Pastorella Bob's challenge to arrange a retrospective of Peter Straub's career in 2017, I expected to read such love (until now, I have never read Ostrub).

Floating Dragon was a 1980 novel by the same name. It is a large-scale unrealistic horror love, inspired by a paranoid military man of the 1960s. Government secrets, unexplained discontents, unknown nightmares and reckless visions plague a town in an unmistakable Connecticut state. In fact, what I like about St. Petersburg Straub, for example, is this point. The monsters never look like werewolves or ghosts or vampires. They never happen effortlessly. The monsters are always something that appear, and everyone has to create it.

Of course, as in other novels by Peter Straub, for example, the characters that cross each other every day and sometimes appear in a hodgepodge, but in "Floating Dragon", it is possible to excuse for the fact that there is a very large number of characters and points of view, and everything that happens supports the reckless busta. One of the grounds that is why they all feel different fears. In many human relationships, this is just an ordinary love of Peter Straub, but this is the most impeccable work of his that I have read so far. I enjoyed it quite a bit.

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Editorial Department: 4. 5/5 with rounding. I read this book in January, but I still don't leave my head. I'm going to do not attach 5 stars. This is the most crazy, the most exaggerated, too correct horror novel in the stroke, which is a rounded five.

But as a record, this is a great horror book, and if this was my first straved book, I would probably get five points. As a matter of fact, he has a more favorite book than this book.

Peter Strobe has a writing style that gets into my head. There are few books with goose bumps, but this book stood goosebumps. This book contains a tremendous and disturbing image.

It is a strava ode to the genre called horror. It is hard to imagine horror literally comes from all directions, and that Hamsted town can withstand this fear cycle every 30 years.

The time axis shifts early, so it may be confusing until the stroke gets used to the story. There are some hints that are not completely clear, and important figures have been introduced. Fear starts immediately after knowing that DRG ("Thinking Cloud"), a distant and terrifying effect reminiscent of LSD, has leaked into the Connecticut State Hamsted and has become established. As you know the history of this town, the situation becomes even more strange, and it quickly turns out that DRG is just one of the two fears that attack the town directly.

This book is incredibly creepy, sometimes comical fear like a manga. At one point, it's like a manga, it's a comical, and sometimes it's very real and as dark. The author is not joking.

After that, my favorite book "Coco" written by the stroke is very dark, but it is not a true horror like this book. As far as I know, he has never returned to this genre in such a work. This is a compact, suspense, and merciless book, and I want all horror fans to read. Because the theme is similar to the theme, it is sometimes compared with King's "Information Technology", but it can be seen that it is actually a completely different book. Recommended. < SPAN> Editorial Department: 4. 5/5 in rounding. I read this book in January, but I still don't leave my head. I'm going to do not attach 5 stars. This is the most crazy, the most exaggerated, too correct horror novel in the stroke, which is a rounded five.

But as a record, this is a great horror book, and if this was my first straved book, I would probably get five points. As a matter of fact, he has a more favorite book than this book.

Peter Strobe has a writing style that gets into my head. There are few books with goose bumps, but this book stood goosebumps. This book contains a tremendous and disturbing image.

It is a strava ode to the genre called horror. It is hard to imagine horror literally comes from all directions, and that Hamsted town can withstand this fear cycle every 30 years.

The time axis shifts early, so it may be confusing until the stroke gets used to the story. There are some hints that are not completely clear, and important figures have been introduced. Fear starts immediately after knowing that DRG ("Thinking Cloud"), a distant and terrifying effect reminiscent of LSD, has leaked into the Connecticut State Hamsted and has become established. As you know the history of this town, the situation becomes even more strange, and it quickly turns out that DRG is just one of the two fears that attack the town directly.

This book is incredibly creepy, sometimes comical fear like a manga. At one point, it's like a manga, it's a comical, and sometimes it's very real and as dark. The author is not joking.

After that, my favorite book "Coco" written by the stroke is very dark, but it is not a true horror like this book. As far as I know, he has never returned to this genre in such a work. This is a compact, suspense, and merciless book, and I want all horror fans to read. Because the theme is similar to the theme, it is sometimes compared with King's "Information Technology", but it can be seen that it is actually a completely different book. Recommended. Editorial Department: 4. 5/5 with rounding. I read this book in January, but I still don't leave my head. I'm going to do not attach 5 stars. This is the most crazy, the most exaggerated, too correct horror novel in the stroke, which is a rounded five.

But as a record, this is a great horror book, and if this was my first straved book, I would probably get five points. As a matter of fact, he has a more favorite book than this book.

Peter Strobe has a writing style that gets into my head. There are few books with goose bumps, but this book stood goosebumps. This book contains a tremendous and disturbing image.

It is a strava ode to the genre called horror. It is hard to imagine that horror literally comes from all directions, and that Hamsted town can withstand this fear cycle every 30 years.

The time axis shifts early, so it may be confusing until the stroke gets used to the story. There are some hints that are not yet clear, and important figures have been introduced. Fear starts immediately after knowing that DRG ("Thinking Cloud"), a distant and terrifying effect reminiscent of LSD, has leaked into the Connecticut State Hamsted and has become established. As you know the history of this town, the situation becomes even more strange, and it quickly turns out that DRG is just one of the two fears that attack the town directly.

This book is incredibly creepy, sometimes comical fear like a manga. At one point, it's like a manga, it's a comical, and sometimes it's very real and as dark. The author is not joking.

After that, my favorite book "Coco" written by the stroke is very dark, but it is not a true horror like this book. As far as I know, he has never returned to this genre in such a work. This is a compact, suspense, and merciless book, and I want all horror fans to read. Because the theme is similar to the theme, it is sometimes compared with King's "Information Technology", but it can be seen that it is actually a completely different book. Recommended.

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First posted in 1982, "FD" is a huge, overgrown love, but it was over to think of it faster than love. Straub felt the desire to connect all known horror paths in one book, but FD has its own factors, and it would be important for a good editor to cut it. The plot centers on a small Connecticut town on the Golden Coast (Hampstead) that suffers a serious injury in the summer of 1980. The floating dragon belongs to two (eventually related) accidents - a poisonous cloud DRG 15 (an experimental chemical gun, something like LSD on steroids) and something ancient, recurrent evil that will ruin Hampstead within about 30 years. As it turns out, in 1980, for example, the poisonous cloud was noted along with the recurrent evil.

Some feel a basic malaise like the flu, some feel a skin-peeling sense of loss, some control their emotions like LSD, some are suicidal. Overall, you have a point. It's a nasty one. The other dragon is a demonic, evil thing that has been lurking around for almost 100 years, since the emergence stage of Hampstead itself. In the 17th century, Hampstead was inhabited by four families, and then the English arrived in the big city and started buying up land recklessly. This situation unfolds through particles, but there are practically no spoilers. Eventually the four families come together and Briton drives off. We don't know if Briton was mad, or if his death was conjured by an ancient evil, for example, but in any case, we have 30 years or so from Hampstead, a place within the reach of such evil, killing a multitude of people, stirring fire, summoning fire, which stirs fire and crowns - again, you have the feeling. Apart from this, the evil (dragon) becomes stronger when the members of the four families are present in Hampstead as in 1980.

The four main characters are all descendants of the four First Families, and Straub takes us on a fun journey and tells us how they made it in Hampstead. We are introduced to more characters than we can shake a stick at, and then we are introduced to more. Apart from this, there Ostrub uses some kind of intriguing time tripping where more details of the situation and important heroes are revealed. The book has all the tendencies of a good situation, but Straub is trying to arrange a very large amount of nightmare elementally.

The FD is close to a spell, causing various terrible murder and incidents. The current dragon is working as a serial murderer to turn women right and left in a city. The toxic cloud DRG kills people in various ways, for example, breaks the skin of the body. All pets in the city rush under the wheels of cars and trucks and end their life in the form of suicide. Birds fall from the sky. Blood river, blood bucket, underground full of blood, bat with human head, and various other monsters. The strobe seemed to be hoping that something would be solved at least while the horror's common phrase turned right and left.

The stroke has a skillful prose and really aims for epic. In particular, in the motif of a strong confrontation between good and evil, I remembered "THIS" King, but FD is not a story about growth. I read some of the Oustrav novels, but he seems to be more complicated and more complex than the previous work. Perhaps this worked because he gained many readers in the 1980s. Three stars. 423 Review 313 Subscribers

Like a redundant practice (the strobe recognizes the spoiler preface), the Floating Dragon is a victory fireworks festival that gives a greedy reader of hundreds of pages of enthusiastic horror surgeons. This novel is enthusiastic about the sense of the gap and the story (the former is the man's manners of John Apdyk, and the latter reminiscent of Martin Emis's sel f-mentioned joy). It accounts for more than 200 pages, as the porridge, the flow of a fatal ghost, just for the only way, the scenaral is further absorbed by the high waves of blood. Readers who are not ready to have this experience will repel sustainable speed and incontinence, but readers who are craving to swallow the American slides slowly, the muscular spine of this novel. You will like to pass through. To briefly explain your scenario? A woman's brutal murder in Connecticut and a randomly produced psychiatric weapon were manufactured randomly overlap, and four strangers gathered to fight old evil like the United States.

138 subscribers < Span> FD are close to spells, and various terrible murder and incidents occur. The current dragon is working as a serial murderer to turn women right and left in a city. The toxic cloud DRG kills people in various ways, for example, breaks the skin of the body. All pets in the city rush under the wheels of cars and trucks and end their life in the form of suicide. Birds fall from the sky. Blood river, blood bucket, underground full of blood, bat with human head, and various other monsters. The strobe seemed to be hoping that something would be solved at least while the horror's common phrase turned right and left.

The stroke has a skillful prose and really aims for epic. In particular, in the motif of a strong confrontation between good and evil, I remembered "THIS" King, but FD is not a story about growth. I read some of the Oustrav novels, but he seems to be more complicated and more complex than the previous work. Perhaps this worked because he gained many readers in the 1980s. Three stars.

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Like a redundant practice (the strobe recognizes the spoiler preface), the Floating Dragon is a victory fireworks festival that gives a greedy reader of hundreds of pages of enthusiastic horror surgeons. This novel is enthusiastic about the sense of the gap and the story (the former is the man's manners of John Apdyk, and the latter reminiscent of Martin Emis's sel f-mentioned joy). It accounts for more than 200 pages, as the porridge, the flow of a fatal ghost, just for the only way, the scenaral is further absorbed by the high waves of blood. Readers who are not ready to have this experience will repel sustainable speed and incontinence, but readers who are craving to swallow the American slides slowly, the muscular spine of this novel. You will like to pass through. To briefly explain your scenario? A woman's brutal murder in Connecticut and a randomly produced psychiatric weapon were manufactured randomly overlap, and four strangers gathered to fight old evil like the United States.

The 138 subscribers FDs are close to spells, and various terrible murder and incidents occur. The current dragon is working as a serial murderer to turn women right and left in a city. The toxic cloud DRG kills people in various ways, for example, breaks the skin of the body. All pets in the city rush under the wheels of cars and trucks and end their life in the form of suicide. Birds fall from the sky. Blood river, blood bucket, underground full of blood, bat with human head, and various other monsters. The strobe seemed to be hoping that something would be solved at least while the horror's common phrase turned right and left.

The stroke has a skillful prose and is really aiming for epic. In particular, in the motif of a strong confrontation between good and evil, I remembered "THIS" King, but FD is not a story about growth. I have read some of the Oustrav novels, but he seems to be more complicated and more complex than the previous work. Perhaps this worked because he gained many readers in the 1980s. Three stars.

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Like a redundant practice (the strobe recognizes the spoiler preface), the Floating Dragon is a victory fireworks festival that gives a greedy reader of hundreds of pages of enthusiastic horror surgeons. This novel is enthusiastic about the sense of the gap and the story (the former is the man's manners of John Apdyk, and the latter reminiscent of Martin Emis's sel f-mentioned joy). It accounts for more than 200 pages, as the porridge, the flow of a fatal ghost, just for the only way, the scenaral is further absorbed by the high waves of blood. Readers who are not ready to have this experience will repel sustainable speed and incontinence, but readers who are craving to swallow the American slides slowly, the muscular spine of this novel. You will like to pass through. To briefly explain your scenario? A woman's brutal murder in Connecticut and a randomly produced psychiatric weapon were manufactured randomly overlap, and four strangers gathered to fight old evil like the United States.

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"DRAGON FLOATS" has not returned to Robert Machamon and Nick Cutter if he decided to write Stephen King's love story together, replaced the parts one after another and did not return to the revision. Similar to the compact and absurd, and the individual scenes are often wonderful, but if you try to collect bread crumbs from the beginning to the end, you will never be able to go near your grandmother's house. 。

The story is that the characters who knew their ancestors formed a group to fight evil in Hamsted, Connecticut, are required to fight evil in Hamsted, a Hamsted city in Connecticut. The evil is a poisonous gas leaked from government facilities, a psychopath who committed a general murder, and a reborn spirit of a previous world murderer who had to defeat their ancestors, and Dr. Psychopath. Is likely to be possessed, and the government's gas leak is probably acquitted. It also causes a fire (with evil) in the form of hallucinations, causing a fire that burns the house in the same way, drowning in the river in the same way, even though it does not actually exist. And there is a mirror, and scary things happen around and inside. And I wrote that there is a hero who has a telepathy or has all the opportunities to see the past, but what happened to these former heroes so that we can read everything in real time. Is it?

This labyrint h-like love would have definitely been born if I hadn't decided to share with E. Loan. However, as well as this book is a troublesome and disappointing thing, this book includes a very interesting element and a stunning sentence that has never been read before. This is Strhaub. Sometimes I think I'm the only one who is listening to drunken idiots, and at the next moment, I was beaten by a tortured mental thread and drawn out the impression that I didn't intend to open it. Sometimes I feel like. In fact, even if the flying dragon's flight is violent, I want to say that the stroke is perfectly producing everything. As a result, this drunk story is virtually worth listening.

One of the books I'm glad I picked up, but I won't return again. Finally, as one of the protagonists says, "If you go crazy, at least together." I want to recommend this book only if there is a opponent who goes crazy together.

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I'm not even taking into account that this book didn't get more than 4 stars here. I also read "The History of Ghosts" from the "Stroebe and the Talisman" series, which Peter Straebe co-authored with King, and this is definitely my favorite of his books.

It's long, but well-paced. There are many devastating and ironic images and scenes in this book. Cold-blooded murders by serial killers, flesh nightmares with daring human mutilations and nerve-paralyzing gas, global murders, drowning suicides, zombies, unrealistic appearances. The list goes on and on.

I was reminded a lot of King's "Information Technology." It seems he learned some ideas from this novel. The abnormal evil in this book is also circular. It is not absolute like in this book, but jumps from the past to reality through visions, demonstrations, and character studies. Apart from this, the main characters create personal personas of psychological connections and friendships.

All in all, this is an elementally great horror book. 5 stars

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Too much background and exposure, but little real suspense or impact, to get me to recite 50 percent of the way through. I tried.

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Government experience flies by, and deadly gas is dumped in the posh suburb of Hampstead, Connecticut. A period of descendants of Metropolis' founding fathers collapses in Hampstead for the first time in 100 years, creating a storm of events that is basically a continuation of the curse.

After reading Ghost History in high school (and fearing death), I was scared to recite any other work featuring Straub. I remember Shadow Country and how much I missed this book, and how late I was into reading a bunch of other authors to get hooked. But rereading Ghost History last year forced me to think about how I could learn more than Straub.

For example, I made a mistake about how this book became a huge disappointment for me.

I believe the huge contradiction in "Floating Dragon" is solely in the fact that he had the opportunity to actually determine whether it was an anomalous curse or a scientific curse. The situation is created with the Conservation Agency's experimental plan, the dumping into the atmosphere, and the Hampstead curse repeating itself for 30 years, or within that range. The two threads are expanded but never come together in any significant way. In fact, the narrator of the situation basically decides that the Kim catastrophe was a common coincidence. For example, that if it wasn't for such a well-worn situation, the reader might have been left feeling lost and blown away.

And the narrator of the situation, the novel/screenplay author, was blacklisted, and by the end McCarthy had emigrated to England and indulged in alcoholism. He begins a third-person personal narration, but then jumps into a first-person headspace to explain his role in the novel. According to his writing, he got a lot of his information from the diaries of three other activists, probably fictional. Later he goes back to using third person (inserted into the story two more times for stupid POVs), but actually, we now have a pleasantly non-inspiring narrator. Finally, the artistic tone of the book is that of Straub, who is in love with personal writing. The narrator, who does not inspire any confidence, speaks as if he is more rational and understands it than anyone else in the room. In this environment of people who think more of themselves than anyone else, plus this confusing and unpleasant situation about death and destruction, you don't actually know what will cause it. In the epilogue of the story, he talks about the fact that the Storyteller finally published an "excellent book" The Floating Dragon "- which really forced me to laugh. But this only exacerbated the co-deprecating and confused prose written by this story.

It was less than 100 pages (punctuated by one of the narrators), and it was pretty good - they touched on the curse teaching plot, there was no chemical tragedy. And I liked the climax in Kendall Punte's canyon. But overall, this was not a memorable read. Those who are new to Ostrov's work would be better off starting with another book.

But the Cemetery Dance newspaper book is excellent (for this I gave her another star and a half!).

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I have a complicated feeling for this book. There were some parts I liked, and some hated parts. It was my first time to read Peter Strav, but I really liked it overall. Until I read his other work, I will leave the part that I felt in the problem in myself.

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I think those who believe that this book will tell you will teach you will be the case.

I described this book as "a long ago". Initially, I posted a lot of reviews under the "Spoilers-Line" below. To explain, I was disappointed with this book. I just liked it by reading the ghost history. This is not enough. I didn't like her enough. I seemed to be able to expect the beginning, but even dreamed of failing and burned out.

Of course, from my preference, I can't recommend it.

Reading the ghost history, I just felt it was unique, terrifying, and fun. As a result, I picked up this book on a smooth cover. But this book alone has kept me away from Peter Strav. Details are omitted, but frankly, in exchange for fear, this book will sometimes give you a mean and almost stupid feeling. It is only one of the intense parts of this book that the insignificant metamorphosis becomes an inferry. The "climax" on the cover of this book was almost a stupid dream for me. At best.

My bookshelf has a certain number of other books on the stravub I am trying to read (my deceased rocket was a horror fan, but she also experienced the same thing about this book), for example, "Ghost" It is on the abandoned host for the fact that he liked the history of "history. There will be no other book other than this. I haven't read his work for years. It's possible, so let's read it later.

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All the beloved love. Many things happen at the same time, all of which are textbooks, science fiction, and abnormal nightmares. It seems to embody the dream of seeing a gross tree that has visited the plague and a great fluctuation. 764 Review 282 Subscription

It took more than two months to read Peter Strhab's "Floating Dragon" (1983). I'm serious, children. I am starting to worry about reading a book more than 4 to 5 days. Why? This is just the second book read by the floating dragon in 2016. If you are trying to achieve the number of books last year than any other rush work!

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January reading is always difficult. Returning to school or work after the holidays is a difficult experience for everyone, but it's no exception. The reading schedule (I work in college and the schedule changes for each semester), and I often read it during the night or between classes because of my work at university. ... In the series of Netflix (why did you discover Breaking Bad now? This novel has become one of the best horror novels I have read so far. Seriously.

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When you start reading Peter Strav's novel, you should know that you are waiting for a compact, heading, challenging reading. Strhab's book is not necessary for a doctor or sitting on a bus. Strhab's work is a true art, full of dedication, and many or all the secrets at once. Instead, the stravub often loses readers and creates a cold and illusionary world, different from Stanley Cubrick movies. Due to the similarities with the author's previous work "A Ghost Story" and Stephen King's novel "IT" and "Salem's Lot", it may be a little more friendly and warm than "Shadowland", but "Floating Dragon" is the exception. isn't it.

This book, The Floating Dragon, is a detailed story about a small town called Hamsted, Connecticut, just a few minutes from New York. There are more coffee shops and yoga studios than movie theaters and McDonald's. In short, this is a city for upper class people, such as artists, writers, and real estate agents. Hamsted is subject to nightmare, with toxic gases from the government's confidential facilities in the suburbs. Nightmares are caused not only by gas clouds, but also by a mysterious violence chain of the town every 30 years in the town or in the late 17th century when the town was founded. The stroke verifies almost all the violence cycle and constitutes important parts of this book. It is a necessary and attractive material, and thankfully, there is no dust of the diarrhea or extended part of words. < SPAN> Reading in January is always difficult. Returning to school or work after the holidays is a difficult experience for everyone, but it's no exception. The reading schedule (I work in college and the schedule changes for each semester), and I often read it during the night or between classes because of my work at university. ... In the series of Netflix (why did you discover Breaking Bad now? This novel has become one of the best horror novels I have read so far. Seriously.

When you start reading Peter Strav's novel, you should know that you are waiting for a compact, heading, challenging reading. Strhab's book is not necessary for a doctor or sitting on a bus. Strhab's work is a true art, full of dedication, and many or all the secrets at once. Instead, the stravub often loses readers and creates a cold and illusionary world, different from Stanley Cubrick movies. Due to the similarities with the author's previous work "A Ghost Story" and Stephen King's novel "IT" and "Salem's Lot", it may be a little more friendly and warm than "Shadowland", but "Floating Dragon" is the exception. isn't it.

• This book, The Floating Dragon, is a detailed story about a small town called Hamsted, Connecticut, just a few minutes from New York. There are more coffee shops and yoga studios than movie theaters and McDonald's. In short, this is a city for upper class people, such as artists, writers, and real estate agents. Hamsted is subject to nightmare, with toxic gases from the government's confidential facilities in the suburbs. Nightmares are caused not only by gas clouds, but also by a mysterious violence chain of the town every 30 years in the town or in the late 17th century when the town was founded. The stroke verifies almost all the violence cycle and constitutes important parts of this book. It is a necessary and attractive material, and thankfully, there is no dust of the diarrhea or extended part of words. January reading is always difficult. Returning to school or work after the holidays is a difficult experience for everyone, but it's no exception. The reading schedule (I work in college and the schedule changes for each semester), and I often read it during the night or between classes because of my work at university. ... In the series of Netflix (why did you discover Breaking Bad now? This novel has become one of the best horror novels I have read so far. Seriously.
• When you start reading Peter Strav's novel, you should know that you are waiting for a compact, heading, challenging reading. Strhab's book is not necessary for a doctor or sitting on a bus. Strhab's work is a true art, full of dedication, and many or all the secrets at once. Instead, the stravub often loses readers and creates a cold and illusionary world, different from Stanley Cubrick movies. Due to the similarities with the author's previous work "A Ghost Story" and Stephen King's novel "IT" and "Salem's Lot", it may be a little more friendly and warm than "Shadowland", but "Floating Dragon" is the exception. isn't it.
• This book, The Floating Dragon, is a detailed story about a small town called Hamsted, Connecticut, just a few minutes from New York. There are more coffee shops and yoga studios than movie theaters and McDonald's. In short, this is a city for upper class people, such as artists, writers, and real estate agents. Hamsted is subject to nightmare, with toxic gases from the government's confidential facilities in the suburbs. Nightmares are caused not only by gas clouds, but also by a mysterious violence chain of the town every 30 years in the town or in the late 17th century when the town was founded. The stroke verifies almost all the violence cycle and constitutes important parts of this book. It is a necessary and attractive material, and thankfully, there is no dust of the diarrhea or extended part of words.

The latest installment begins in the summer of 1980 with the murders of popular women in the big city, and escalates rapidly. The novel has a fairly large cast of characters, but four key people soon find themselves at the center of the events, and are forced to band together to rid their small town of this unspeakable evil forever. In true Straub fashion, the family backgrounds of these four people bring them together and make them the only ones who can stand against the monster, but I won't get in the way of any details. In fact, Straub, as a writer, is a fresh and life-giving study of how the past can have a significant impact on reality, as a rule.

This is a huge book. Not only in size, but also in the ideas and elements that are put into it. Straub could have simply made three novels out of all the storylines presented here, but he somehow manages to arrange everything so that all the plots fit together in harmony. The result is a highly intriguing, terrifying, and absolutely heartbreaking situation that ranks among the best horror novels of the 70s and 80s. If you've never read Peter Straub before, this is a good place to start, but I always recommend A Ghost Story to newcomers. If you've read that book, then move on to this one. Spend some time in Hampstead, Connecticut. Just don't look in the mirror and stay away from the beach.

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The book The Floating Dragon had the potential to amaze me, but unfortunately, in the middle of the novel, it becomes very abstract, with a lot of imagery from 80s horror movies: pulsating scarlet lights, blood everywhere, and phantoms in various stages of decay. It was obviously written in the mid-80s, but I'm reading it now in 2011. Many of the nightmares are rendered absurd, vulgar, and comical, far from the subtlety of, say, his collection of stories, The House Without Doors.

But the ending was very wonderful. The opening is a large number of characters, gothic atmosphere, contes t-like situations, contes t-like heritage ("Floating Dragon" ("Floating Dragon", the TV series "Daddy Hear", "Helfire Club" ], Remembered the Stravure's "Hellfire Club" (by the way, I was overwhelmed by this work), such as the love novel "Night Journey"). It has been discovered that a woman named Stony Fried Good has been killed in a peaceful middl e-class town Hamsted. An experimental chemical substance called DRG is accidentally released into the air and scatters throughout the town. When this chemical is inhaled, people quickly die or go crazy. Did DRG really create serial murderers? In Hamsted, birds die from the sky and fall.
When the Hamsted city was built in the 19th century, a man called Gideon Winter appeared and brought in a destructive power to visit Hamsted many times.	This book is worth reading, which is nothing but Peter Strobe writing excellent sentences.
165 books 276 subscribers	This book looks like a blank for a more developed book. While reading, I repeatedly said, "I can't do it." None of them are meaningful, no meaning, and they seem to be a desperate misunderstanding of what you are writing. In many spaces, I wanted to throw this book into the room.