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Okay, so now, since I've finished analyzing a good amount, I'm going to sum this book up and then move on (or really back) to turn of the screw.

So overall "All That Lives" wasn't the scariest book I've ever read, however, it helped me a lot i looking at the genre. With this novel, we see the classic ghost story and how it affects the human family in turn. Though it lagged a bit in excitement, and the end was very unsatisfactory, i would never say it was a bad book. Overall Sanders has a concise style and handles the scary scenes pretty well. She however, fell into a trap most of us do-inexperience. unlike King who knows how to moderate his scariness, she seemed to go a bit over the top with it in order to impress me as a reader. It was as if King knew his book was going to be scary, he didn't need you to tell him, and in that confidence he made it scarier because of its simpleness. whereas hers began to become to fictional and thus losing its effect, as stated in prior posts.

Also in comparison to King, this book is basically the same theme, scary being. You can't define what that being is but it's scary and mean- in one case it was a hotel, this time just a voice, still same idea though. So why did she flounder? Again i think it's the same idea, experience and skill. With Sanders the voice was equally as sophisticated as the madness behind the hotel, but hers was much more on the surface and it lacked the fear power because it became predictable and unimaginable. In the beginning, and in all of the Shining, i never knew what was coming and when it did i was shocked because i could totally see that happening in real life-thus scary.

So in terms of comparison, this horror can not compete with the last one, even though they deal with the same idea.