Title: Not as good as when I first read it.
Product review: The great thing about rereading a book that you last read 40 years ago is that you forget almost everything. You have to respect the bits remembered. With this book I remembered only that the monster made puppets of the corpses of its victims.This reading I could see that the first half is by far the better half. The tension builds and builds, but it can't be sustained and it collapses. The last half gets to be tedious and trite. Perhaps it is inevitable, after building up the monster it has to be disposed of. The better the build up, the more disappointing the stupid device to kill it will be.If only someone would take up this subject using the style and sensibilities of Cormack McCarthy.The bit I remembered was from the lesser half.
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