false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1242346381m/174174.jpg 174174 14 Shortly after World War I, a troubled man accepts a solitary assignment as a &#8220;weather official&#8221; on a tiny, remote island on the edges of the Antarctic. When he arrives, the predecessor he is meant to replace is missing and a deeply disturbed stranger is barricaded in a heavily fortified lighthouse. At first adversaries, the two find that their tenuous partnership may be the only way they survive the unspeakably horrific reptilian creatures that ravage the island at night, attacking the lighthouse in their organized effort to find warm-blooded food. Armed with a battery of ammunition and explosives, the weather official and his new ally must confront their increasingly murderous mentality, and, when the possibility of a kind of truce presents itself, decide what kind of island they will inhabit. Equal parts Stephen King, a phantasmagorical Robinson Crusoe, and <i>Lord of the Flies</i>, <i>Cold</i> <i>Skin</i> is literary horror that deals with the basist forms of human behavior imaginable, while exploring why we so vehemently fear the Other.<br> 168241 2000 Cold Skin total:188|5:45|4:66|3:58|2:10|1:9| 188 692 265 43 528019 0374182396 9780374182397 21 7 3.68 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175551854m/528019.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/528019.Cold_Skin_A_Novel 0 0 false Thu Feb 05 09:38:23 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 05 09:38:23 -0800 2009 A best-seller translated from Catalan, Cold Skin features gothic characters, plots, and writing, all to horrific, sometimes comic, effect. Behind the narrator's self-reflections and actions__from night battles to bestiality__Pi_íol, an anthropologist, asks big questions about men and monsters, power...

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But from another direction it is quite good: it is an al...more...]]> 174174 1841958832 9781841958835 137 34 3.68 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1242346381m/174174.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/174174.Cold_Skin 5 0 false Wed Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Jul 30 08:41:12 -0700 2009 Thu Jul 30 08:48:20 -0700 2009 well i finished reading it over the course o...more...]]> 174174 1841958832 9781841958835 137 34 3.68 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1242346381m/174174.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/174174.Cold_Skin 1 0 true Mon Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Jun 24 02:05:13 -0700 2009 Tue Jun 30 01:24:39 -0700 2009 "Consensual rape"?
Well no.
I would have enjoyed this book, I think, if not for the repeated scenes of the rape and other physical abuse of the main characters' captive non-human 'slave' (who while not initiating contact always responded with an overwhelming lust), which the narr...more...]]> 2101944 1841959006 9781841959009 3 1 3.68 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2101944.Cold_Skin 4 0 false Sun Jan 11 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sun Jan 04 17:38:15 -0800 2009 Sun Jan 11 12:38:32 -0800 2009
That really only explains the first twenty-five pages. The direction it goes from there is consisten...more...]]> 174174 1841958832 9781841958835 137 34 3.68 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1242346381m/174174.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/174174.Cold_Skin 3 0 false Sat Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2006 Mon Jan 14 11:56:27 -0800 2008 Wed May 07 10:23:46 -0700 2008 more...]]> 174174 1841958832 9781841958835 137 34 3.68 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1242346381m/174174.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/174174.Cold_Skin 0 0 false Sat Jun 27 19:42:18 -0700 2009 Sat Jun 27 19:44:17 -0700 2009 174174 1841958832 9781841958835 137 34 3.68 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1242346381m/174174.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/174174.Cold_Skin 2 0 false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Wed Mar 25 17:40:04 -0700 2009 Wed Mar 25 17:40:50 -0700 2009 It was really really weird. I don't recommend it highly.]]> 174174 1841958832 9781841958835 137 34 3.68 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1242346381m/174174.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/174174.Cold_Skin 3 0 false Wed Oct 21 07:00:53 -0700 2009 Wed Oct 21 07:01:15 -0700 2009 ]]> 174174 1841958832 9781841958835 137 34 3.68 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1242346381m/174174.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/174174.Cold_Skin 5 0 false Wed Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Wed Apr 15 17:42:13 -0700 2009 Wed Apr 15 17:45:01 -0700 2009 174174 1841958832 9781841958835 137 34 3.68 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1242346381m/174174.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/174174.Cold_Skin 2 0 false Fri Sep 22 00:00:00 -0700 2006 Thu Jan 15 13:15:20 -0800 2009 Thu Jan 15 13:16:07 -0800 2009 174174 1841958832 9781841958835 137 34 3.68 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1242346381m/174174.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/174174.Cold_Skin 3 0 false Thu Nov 20 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sun Nov 23 19:01:03 -0800 2008 Sun Nov 23 19:06:37 -0800 2008 174174 1841958832 9781841958835 137 34 3.68 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1242346381m/174174.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/174174.Cold_Skin 4 0 false Tue Oct 06 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Oct 04 06:37:48 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 06 08:08:34 -0700 2009 174174 1841958832 9781841958835 137 34 3.68 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1242346381m/174174.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/174174.Cold_Skin 3 0 false Sun Feb 22 04:34:16 -0800 2009 Sun Feb 22 04:34:37 -0800 2009 96897 9509009334 9789509009332 7 1 3.68 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171356605m/96897.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/96897.La_piel_fr_a 4 0 false Thu Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2004 Tue Feb 13 00:50:16 -0800 2007 Tue Feb 13 00:51:17 -0800 2007 ------

Dens, angoix...more...]]> 174174 1841958832 9781841958835 137 34 3.68 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1242346381m/174174.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/174174.Cold_Skin 2 0 false Sat Jan 10 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu Jul 31 18:47:33 -0700 2008 Sat Jan 10 10:20:01 -0800 2009
I was unable to develop any empathy for, or interest in, the two male characters. And by the time the plot had pro...more...]]> 174174 1841958832 9781841958835 137 34 3.68 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1242346381m/174174.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/174174.Cold_Skin 1 0 false Mon May 04 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun May 03 17:39:59 -0700 2009 Sat May 23 01:40:28 -0700 2009 528019 0374182396 9780374182397 21 7 3.68 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175551854m/528019.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/528019.Cold_Skin_A_Novel 4 0 false Wed Aug 08 21:41:19 -0700 2007 Tue Aug 28 17:44:10 -0700 2007 more...]]> 528019 0374182396 9780374182397 21 7 3.68 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175551854m/528019.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/528019.Cold_Skin_A_Novel 5 0 false Thu Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2006 Thu May 31 14:49:33 -0700 2007 Tue Jun 12 12:00:53 -0700 2007 more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=174174