The Sentinel eBook Jeffrey Konvitz
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Jeffrey Konvitz’s New York Times–bestselling horror novel about a young woman descending into demonic madness who discovers it’s not simply in her mind
Aspiring model Allison Parker finally moves into her dream apartment a brownstone on Manhattan’s Upper West Side. But her perfect home quickly turns hellish.
The building is filled with a cast of sinister tenants, including a reclusive blind priest, who seems to watch her day and night through an upstairs window. Eventually, Allison starts hearing strange noises from the empty apartment above hers. Before long, she uncovers the building’s demonic secret and is plunged into a nightmare of sinful misdeeds and boundless evil.
In the tradition of Rosemary’s Baby, this gripping novel was adapted into a feature film starring Ava Gardner, Cristina Raines, and Chris Sarandon. The Sentinel is classic horror at its best.
Aspiring model Allison Parker finally moves into her dream apartment a brownstone on Manhattan’s Upper West Side. But her perfect home quickly turns hellish.
The building is filled with a cast of sinister tenants, including a reclusive blind priest, who seems to watch her day and night through an upstairs window. Eventually, Allison starts hearing strange noises from the empty apartment above hers. Before long, she uncovers the building’s demonic secret and is plunged into a nightmare of sinful misdeeds and boundless evil.
In the tradition of Rosemary’s Baby, this gripping novel was adapted into a feature film starring Ava Gardner, Cristina Raines, and Chris Sarandon. The Sentinel is classic horror at its best.
The Sentinel eBook Jeffrey Konvitz
Genre: Horror FictionPublisher: Ballantine Books
Pub. Year: 1974
My Halloween book (The Sentinel) for 2018 was written in 1974 by Jeffrey Konvitz. I read this book the year after I graduated high school (dating myself) and I remember it scaring the bejesus out of me. I was wondering if it still could. It did, but with noticeable flaws. As a teen in 1968, I read “Rosemary's Baby.” And in 1973, I read “The Exorcist.” Both books better stand the test of time than this one did. I can see what attracted me back then to “Sentinel.” As a native New Yorker, I enjoyed that the setting takes place in the Big Apple. The teenage me would have found the protagonist, a beautiful but troubled fashion model to be a fascinating character simply because she was a model.
The heroine moves into an old brownstone building and befriends the other occupants who are bizarrely eccentric. Sounds like “Rosemary’s Baby” right? Wrong, I actually found these neighbors even spookier (possible spoiler) because the reader is not sure if they truly exist or are part of the model’s imagination. The house is inhabited on the top floor by a reclusive blind Catholic priest, who may or may not be evil. He spends his time sitting at his open window. Yes, such a thought can still scare the Catholic schoolgirl in me. Is our heroine crazy or is she in hell? The book also has an unsolved murder in its plot. This would be the deceased wife of our heroine’s boyfriend. I can’t say any more about him or it would be a spoiler.
So why didn’t this book stand the test of time? Well first of all, as an adult I was pissed off that her loving boyfriend uses his hands on her. Plus, her abusive father is written as such an insane deviant he is not a believable character. Not to mention that a lesbian couple are referred to as perverts. Okay, there was no PC in the 1970s hopefully we have all grown. But mostly what bothered me is that the story’s lewdness seems to have been written to shock for shock purposes and that seldom works. Maybe, I am being too critical. Stephen King’s “Carrie” which was published in 1973 also had a crazy religious fanatic parent who beats her daughter. I guess I need to reread Kings first novel to see if it also feels dated. Still, mostly I feel that “Rosemary's Baby” and “The Exorcist” are superior to “Sentinel” because like another King novel “The Stand” they are basically good vs. evil fables. And let’s face it, now we are talking about the Bible. According to the March 2007 edition of “Time,” the Bible "has done more to shape literature, history, entertainment, and culture than any book ever written. Its influence on world history is unparalleled, and shows no signs of abating."
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The Sentinel eBook Jeffrey Konvitz Reviews
This didn't scare me like I wanted it to, I don't scare so easy...but it was better than the movie which bored me to tears!
I guess I was expecting more from this story. I picked it up because of a reference in the movie The Burbs. I've never seen the movie and quite frankly, I think the books tell a story better. I was expecting it to be scarier. It was not. It also didn't feel complete. So I bought the followup book, The Guardian.
Good read. But don't expect too much
Puzzling that Konvitz never did more horror fiction than this and its sequel. He had a knack for it and was terrific at teasing payoffs, forcing you to imagine whatever horrid details there were into something spectacularly evil. He does give you some visceral description but it's often what he doesn't say that creates the most horror.
Not sure if I expected too much from this book, but by the end I was ambivalent toward it. The first 50 pages or so were interesting, then the story turned dull and felt like work to get through. However, the last 40 or so pages picked up and my interest was piqued again. The writing's not great, and there are large sections that are boring. If you enjoy '70s-style horror, you'll probably want to check it out. But if you're not a horror connoisseur, I'd suggest passing over this one.
The story actually would have been really good if it had been well written. The characters were not well developed, so you really don't care about them. They say and do things that seem unnatural. The beginning of the book is a lot of its and pieces about the characters. You do eventually learn more about these pieces in the end, but it takes so long to get there that you've forgotten about that storyline and no longer care. It took me months to get through the book because I just didn't care about the story. In the end, it was a cool story, I just didn't like the journey there.
I love historically great horror stories like Rosemary’s Baby. This is not that. My greatest pet peeve is bad dialogue and this book is the exact definition of horrible dialogue. Even if the story is great, you’ll never be able to get past the choppy incoherent and unrealistic dialogue.
Surprising slow, lacks narrative drive; the film is better
I think I was expecting a more "exciting" read but this just slowly plodded along and a lot of the dialogue by the cop/detective was really dumb and
constantly jokey, like from a 70s sitcom. I guess the author was trying to establish character but it works much better in the movie.
I have the sequel, THE GUARDIAN, which I haven't read yet. Hopefully it's a more exciting read.
Genre Horror Fiction
Publisher Ballantine Books
Pub. Year 1974
My Halloween book (The Sentinel) for 2018 was written in 1974 by Jeffrey Konvitz. I read this book the year after I graduated high school (dating myself) and I remember it scaring the bejesus out of me. I was wondering if it still could. It did, but with noticeable flaws. As a teen in 1968, I read “Rosemary's Baby.” And in 1973, I read “The Exorcist.” Both books better stand the test of time than this one did. I can see what attracted me back then to “Sentinel.” As a native New Yorker, I enjoyed that the setting takes place in the Big Apple. The teenage me would have found the protagonist, a beautiful but troubled fashion model to be a fascinating character simply because she was a model.
The heroine moves into an old brownstone building and befriends the other occupants who are bizarrely eccentric. Sounds like “Rosemary’s Baby” right? Wrong, I actually found these neighbors even spookier (possible spoiler) because the reader is not sure if they truly exist or are part of the model’s imagination. The house is inhabited on the top floor by a reclusive blind Catholic priest, who may or may not be evil. He spends his time sitting at his open window. Yes, such a thought can still scare the Catholic schoolgirl in me. Is our heroine crazy or is she in hell? The book also has an unsolved murder in its plot. This would be the deceased wife of our heroine’s boyfriend. I can’t say any more about him or it would be a spoiler.
So why didn’t this book stand the test of time? Well first of all, as an adult I was pissed off that her loving boyfriend uses his hands on her. Plus, her abusive father is written as such an insane deviant he is not a believable character. Not to mention that a lesbian couple are referred to as perverts. Okay, there was no PC in the 1970s hopefully we have all grown. But mostly what bothered me is that the story’s lewdness seems to have been written to shock for shock purposes and that seldom works. Maybe, I am being too critical. Stephen King’s “Carrie” which was published in 1973 also had a crazy religious fanatic parent who beats her daughter. I guess I need to reread Kings first novel to see if it also feels dated. Still, mostly I feel that “Rosemary's Baby” and “The Exorcist” are superior to “Sentinel” because like another King novel “The Stand” they are basically good vs. evil fables. And let’s face it, now we are talking about the Bible. According to the March 2007 edition of “Time,” the Bible "has done more to shape literature, history, entertainment, and culture than any book ever written. Its influence on world history is unparalleled, and shows no signs of abating."
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