<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/e672efa2-2df3-46df-876e-faa3956e01c3/13571B04-8E4C-4EB8-BCDA-D8561C68EE23/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://cawbaw.wordpress.com/2009/07/23/kids-books-that-are-cool-and-an-adult-one-too/" href="http://cawbaw.wordpress.com/2009/07/23/kids-books-that-are-cool-and-an-adult-one-too/" style="font-size: 11px;">cawbaw.wordpress.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://cawbaw.wordpress.com/2009/07/23/kids-books-that-are-cool-and-an-adult-one-too/">John Ajvide Lindqvist’s <STRONG>Handling the Dead</STRONG>. Having loved both the book and the movie of <STRONG>Let the Right One In</STRONG>, I was looking forward to this, his take on a zombie-story. What I hadn’t anticipated was the marvellous twist he puts on the whole concept, producing a story that is nothing short of heart-breaking. There is a large cast of characters, all of them affected by the strange electrical aura over Stockholm that leads to their recently dead relatives coming back to life. Without exception they are believable characters, well-drawn and real-feeling – something which only adds to the emotional impact of the book. There is vein of black comedy running through the book (as befits something written by an ex-comedian), much skewering of the press, science and the bureaucratic machine that is government, which allows for some relief as the story unfolds. It’s a hard read, packing a hefty emotional punch, but it is extremely rewarding, and not to be missed. </blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/13571B04-8E4C-4EB8-BCDA-D8561C68EE23/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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