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Title: Carabolia : A Modern Tale of the Undead by David H Schleicher ISBN: 0-595-24219-7 Publisher: Writer's Showcase Press Pub. Date: 10 September, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.95

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Average Customer Rating: 4 (6 reviews)

Rating: 5
Summary: A sly thriller that inspires a lot of thought.
Comment: OK, so the first time I read "Carabolia", I didn't get it. The mixed reviews intrigued me, and I liked "Crematorium", but this one seemed misguided at first glance, like a key chapter had been deleted. I tossed it aside. Then I discovered that I couldn't stop thinking about it; I couldn't get the characters out of my mind.

About one month later, I was at a book party and talked about it with someone who had a completely different take on the story. After she explained it to me, things started to fit together in my mind. And I went back and read the book again!! I mean, I never do that! And I loved it! This subtle, sly thriller works on levels that the casual reader never suspects and accomplishes things that popular fiction wouldn't dare.

I won't give you the key to understanding it---read the book and figure it out yourself. It's well worth it!

Rating: 3
Summary: Call Me Crazy...but this has got to be dark humor!
Comment: Well, maybe I'm nuts, but I actually look forward to what Schleicher cooks up next. Don't get me wrong, Carabolia is pretty bad. Whether you view it as a traditional murder mystery or some kind of treatise on multiple personality disorder and dreams vs. reality, the plot is pretty nonsensical throughout no matter how you look at it. The dialogue is god-awful (although I have a feeling some of that is intentional, to get the discriminating reader to see that some of this is all a dream). Some of the metaphors utilized are just plane nuts or so out of left field, it's almost funny to read them. Hey, maybe I'm on to something. I actually think that Carabolia is meant to be read as a very very dark comedy. If you go into reading it that way, then you might actually have some fun in a masochistic kind of way. At any rate, Carabolia is so deep down bad that it's almost good, and Schleicher as a writer has nowhere to go but up (one would think). And if he pulls another tale out of his hat that is actually worse than this, he might be on to something too. He can't lose. Cult fan clubs have formed around much lamer. So go ahead and give it a whirl, you might laugh, you might want to write your own book to show that "hey, I can write better than this [person]" and you might get a sense that Schleicher is telling a joke no one else is on yet (except maybe me and you!).

Rating: 1
Summary: A waste of paper
Comment: I cannot see what the other reviewers saw in this book? Poorly written,stupid plot,a complete waste of time.Spend your money on a real book, not this one.