First blog post - The exorcist
The author of the book, William Peter Blatty begins to tell the story in a rather unusual way. Already by the name you can tell the book will be about exorcism and religion will be involved most likely. But the very first page of text has very disturbing content, a couple of stories - not at all related to the book itself - about torture in Auschwitz and a phone call relating to a murder which happened for real. This gives a very sickening vibe as to when you start reading the book and I was considering ditching it already but as I said, they are not related to the book itself so don't worry about them.
Then the prologue, which does have something with the story to do but it connects too late in the book for you to actually remember what it was about. It starts off in Northern Iran, you have no idea of what's happening and it doesn't hook you up at all. It's 5 pages of text which is too little to make you actually understand what is going on and then after those 5 pages the actual story begins and you're introduced to new people and new places all over again. It left me blank and confused as to what was actually happening.
In the actual first chapter however (which there are only 9 of in the entire book of 380 pages so they're rather lengthy chapters) the protagonist hears rapping sounds which she decides on must be rats and tell her servant to set up traps for them, which the servant, Karl responds to with "There are no rats in the attic". This is the first of many cringing feeling you'll have when you read it. Since the book is about exorcism you have to think it was indeed not the rats but something else...
Then the prologue, which does have something with the story to do but it connects too late in the book for you to actually remember what it was about. It starts off in Northern Iran, you have no idea of what's happening and it doesn't hook you up at all. It's 5 pages of text which is too little to make you actually understand what is going on and then after those 5 pages the actual story begins and you're introduced to new people and new places all over again. It left me blank and confused as to what was actually happening.
In the actual first chapter however (which there are only 9 of in the entire book of 380 pages so they're rather lengthy chapters) the protagonist hears rapping sounds which she decides on must be rats and tell her servant to set up traps for them, which the servant, Karl responds to with "There are no rats in the attic". This is the first of many cringing feeling you'll have when you read it. Since the book is about exorcism you have to think it was indeed not the rats but something else...
