From Below

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Cove is a dive documentarist, Devereaux historian, Vanna diving specialist, Hestie biologist, and 3 others in a dive group, seeking the sinking of the Arcadia, diving to deep sea, a level most recreational explorers never entered. I found myself much more invested in the 1928 story-line because it did a better job delivering on atmosphere and scares, in my opinion. There were some truly disturbing and horrific scenes that absolutely shook me. I liked that the spooky parts came much earlier than in the present-day parts, and I enjoyed reading about Harland much more than reading about Cove and team. I can see how some of the deep water diving details could be a bit much for a reader, but I actually liked it.

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When it comes to the later chapters up to the end, I wasn’t a fan of how they abruptly ended right when good stuff happened. It was very frustrating since when it happened and brought a little bit of a spark while reading, I was left hanging until the chapter after next when it returned to that specific timeline. Combine that with the slow pacing of this novel and it’s just something that leaves much to be desired. This is an entertaining Underwater horror book. The narrative felt claustrophobic and tense. The characters were decently well developed and did not feel too stereotypical. As someone who cannot swim, these kind of stories definitely appeal to me. This was my first Darcy Coates book and I think it was a great place to start. The stones of the walls are broken off, and hurdled down at hideous creature. And it just might be enough to Distress calls in the form of garbled messages, were received from the SS Arcadia in her last hours - messages that no one was able to understand, couldn’t make any sense of them, but perhaps this dive, sponsored by Vivitech who will be using the footage for a forthcoming documentary, will finally reveal what really happened.In the walls…” The voice from the radio groaned, and the sound seemed to travel not only through Phillip’s headset but into his bones as well, causing them to ache. “The walls.” Maybe Kiệt simply had no experience with green screen. His breakout hit, Furie, was a very practical martial arts crime story and it could be that he’s moving into untested waters with very little guidance. What I’m saying here is that it’s not necessarily the writer/director’s fault that the effects in the movie look abominable. Just that they do and it’s an enormous distraction. Thanks for your kind words! I'm glad you could enjoy it! I spent a lot of time talking with classic Tetris players to make sure it was something people coming from that world could enjoy. I've read a solid handful of Darcy Coates' other books in the past. I would say that most of them have been enjoyable; her stories are generally well-written and fun to read. However, there are some that are mediocre at best, and unfortunately that's where this story fell for me. Arcadia sank about April 1928 and about 90 years after Cove's team try to explore what really happened but this ship is cursed. A true ghost ship. A phantom of the deep, manned by the bodies of the dead.

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English–Arabic English–Bengali English–Catalan English–Czech English–Danish English–Hindi English–Korean English–Malay English–Marathi English–Russian English–Tamil English–Telugu English–Thai English–Turkish English–Ukrainian English–Vietnamese Silvia Federici, Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation, Autonomedia, 2004. So, yeah, nothing like starting with an already scary plot foundation, deep sea diving, and adding a ship that went missing under weird circumstances, and supernatural elements. Like our protagonist mentions, professional divers can die in familiar waters. The unskilled and barely qualified crew in this story, plus the truly unsettling features of the area they're diving, begin us on a high level of Scary from the start. If you are able to suspend disbelief, even for horror stories that aren't going for all-out silly, then you are in for a treat.My personal problem was all the technical details made the read more of a "chore" to get through at times. My attention would be on a great scene, only to be derailed by silt moving (for the 500th time), or something else that took me "out of the moment". There was also one part that could have added so much more, if elaborated on, in my opinion. Thank you to Poisoned Pen Press and NetGalley who provided me with a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review. All the thoughts and opinions are my own.

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The root cause is that apparently, the nes 2.0 header is used when hashing the rom files instead of the original iNes header. Darcy Coates created atmosphere in this creepy setting. The ship itself is very much a character in this book. I enjoyed the other characters as well. We get to know some more than others, but that didn't hinder my enjoyed of the book. I enjoyed the sense of unease, the dark eerie setting, the spike of fear this book evoked.We don’t use below when one thing touches or covers or hides something else; we usually use under instead: Rediker argues that Lemisch went beyond these distinguished scholars in several respects: “If the British Marxist historians, along with the French historians Georges Lefebvre and Albert Soboul, had pioneered “history from below,” which made historical actors of religious radicals, rioters, peasants, and artisans, Lemisch pushed the phrase and the history further and harder with “history from the bottom up,” a more inclusive and comprehensive formulation that brought all subjects, especially slaves and women, more fully into the historian’s field of vision… by insisting that sailors and other workers had ideas of their own, he [also] made a point that many historians have yet to grasp—the history of the working class must be an intellectual as well as a social history.” From Below has her signature paranormal elements in the plot but it's also creepy as hell and the claustrophobic moments in the book are fantastic. Carlo Ginzburg, The Cheese and the Worms: The Cosmos of a Sixteenth-Century Miller, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1976. Darcy Coates' stories are all different that I've read so far and I'm very impressed with the variety. The premise she chose here was perfect; like space, the sea is another environment rife with fodder for horror elements. Pretty much loved this, and how Coates manages maximum creepiness paired with a feeling that things will generally work out.

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I have read many scary stories in my day. I am very familiar with the sentiment of fear both in a tangible, literal sense as well as what the emotion means logically; the way our brains transform within our bodies grasping for coherent rationals to the events transpiring around us. It is the gift of a great writer to provide the reader with an experience of immersion. The beginning of this book saw us meet a cast of characters in the present day as well as view the cataclysmic events leading to the sinking of the Arcadia, through the introspection of Harland, a crew member on the ship in 1928. This is one of those books that doesn’t get interesting until it’s at 70%. You are given a peak of the upcoming horror to come, but nothing happens.

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In doing so, history from below (especially feminist work and studies of slavery and unfree labour) has expanded our understanding of the working class and working-class struggle beyond waged labour. Rediker’s own work on slavery and the revolutionary Atlantic is a case in point, for it includes the waged and the unwaged, those across the gender spectrum, and people of many different ethnicities and cultures. Previously overlooked forms of resistance to capitalism have joined the ranks of more traditional labour actions. Peter Linebaugh and Marcus Rediker, The Many-Headed Hydra: Sailors, Slaves, Commoners, and the Hidden History of the Revolutionary Atlantic , Beacon Press, 2004. The author perfectly captures a creepy atmosphere and builds tension with every dive the characters take, truly riveting. Each location and sensation is described in a way that is both thrilling and chilling. What sets these books apart is that they are not overwhelmingly dark, as is often the case in horror novels. For that, I like more Darcy Coates's books. Which brings me to my next problem with this read: the characters. I found that most of the characters in this book felt really underdeveloped. We keep being told how the characters are, but some of them consistently act contrary to what we are being told throughout the story. (Cove is supposed to care about her team's safety above everything, yet she is constantly making bad decisions that put her team in danger. Roy was presented as reliable and experienced in diving, yet caused a lot of problems for the team throughout the story.) Additionally, the motivations for most of these actions felt very weak and unconvincing to me. I don't think the hash difference is related to the ines header. I think it's the filename that is "From Below (USA) (Aftermarket) (Unl).nes". When I changed the file name to match that, the hashes match.