Captifs

by Kevin Brooks, Marie Hermet (Translator)

Enfermés. Par qui ? Pourquoi ? Jusqu'à quand ?

Linus, 16 ans, se réveille un matin sur le sol d'un sinistre bunker souterrain. Sans eau, sans nourriture... et sans la moindre explication. Manifestement, il a été kidnappé. Pour quel motif ? Et qu'attend-on de lui ?

Les jours passent. D'autres détenus, n'ayant apparemment rien en commun, sont amenés par un ascenseur,. Une petite fille. Un vieil homme malade. Un toxicomane. Un autre homme, une autre femme. Capturés en pleine rue, comme lui. Nourris, désormais, constamment surveillés. Et incapables de comprendre ce qu'ils font en ce lieu.



Bientôt, et tandis que le temps commence à perdre sa réalité, une horrible vérité se fait jour. Il ne s'agit plus de sortir – c'est manifestement impossible. Il s'agit de survivre. Ensemble. Le plus longtemps possible. En espérant obtenir une réponse à la seule question qui vaille : Pourquoi ?



Honoré outre-Manche par la très prestigieuse médaille Carnegie,
Captifs a été l'objet, à la suite de cette récompense, d'une virulente polémique. On lui a notamment reproché sa violence et son absolu nihilisme. " Monumental ", déclarait dans le même temps le Times. " Tout le monde devrait lire ce roman. "



Medaille Carnegie 2014 (Grande-Bretagne)

Genres: Young Adult, Horror, Thriller, Fiction, Mystery, Contemporary, Suspense

336 pages, Kindle Edition

First published March 7, 2013

About the author

Kevin Brooks was born in 1959 and grew up in Exeter, Devon, England. He studied Psychology and Philosophy at Birmingham, Aston University in 1980 and Cultural Studies in London in 1983. Kevin Brooks has been in a variety of jobs including: musician, gasoline station attendant, crematorium handyman, civil service clerk, hot dog vendor at the London Zoo, post office clerk, and railway ticket office clerk.

Kevin Brooks's writing career started with the publication of Martyn Pig in 2002 through The Chicken House which won the Branford Boase Award 2003 and was shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal. He also wrote Lucas (2002) which was shortlisted for the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize and Booktrust Teenage Prize in 2003 also winning the North East Book Award in 2004.

In 2004 he published Kissing the Rain and Bloodline and I See You, Baby and Candy in 2005. In 2006 he published 3 books including: Johnny Delgado Series - Like Father, Like Son and Private Detective as well as The Road of the Dead; a standalone novel. In February 2008 he published the standalone book Black Rabbit Summer.

As a child, Kevin Brooks enjoyed reading detective novels. He writes most plots of the various books he has written around crime fiction. He likes mystery and suspence and enjoys putting both of those components into each and every story he writes in some shape or form.

Reviews

[Lindsay · Rating 1 out of 5]

While this book was intense and heart-pounding and mind-boggling, I was kind of let down by the ending. I mean, I know not every book is going to be a HEA but this was just too much for me. It sucked the happy right out of me and now I'm depressed. While the writing was impressive, the story's ending...was not.

Rating: 1 out of 5 Stars

[Cora Tea Party Princess · Rating 5 out of 5]

5 Words: Brutal, intense, heart-breaking, pensive, horrific.

5 More Words: Addictive, amazing, shocking, unbelievable, lost-for-words.

There's something about Kevin Brooks' style of writing that I just can't get enough of. I guess it's because the way the narrative flows is similar to the way my own thoughts flow. It just feels so right to read.

This is an author who is not afraid to take chances and be controversial. He's not afraid to hit you hard and shock you. And The Bunker Diary just proves this all over again.

I was so close to tears while reading much of this. But there is some humour too. Just when it might be getting too much there's an injection of humour to stop you from curling up in a ball and crying.

This is an amazing book which will shock you and likely break your heart.

The ending of this book was just... I mean... WHAT?! If you've ever read Black Rabbit Summer, then this is Raymond all over again. It is just incredible how Kevin Brooks can blow your mind all through a book and then just blow your whole being to pieces at the end.

Now, I'm off on a Kevin Brooks binge. I'll probably cry a lot and I have some ARCs to catch up on, but there are another two books of his I haven't read and I've always got time to reread his other books.

[Lisa · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book was part of a Carnegie Short List package I bought for a school library, and I started reading it primarily to figure out if it was appropriate for Middle School or not and I eventually decided that it is not - as it is too brutal . After a couple of pages I had completely forgotten that I read it for work. I laughed, I cried, I ignored the rest of the world until I had finished it.

There is a lot of violence and hopelessness in the story, and it calls to mind Sartre's vision of Hell in Huis Clos: L'enfer, c'est les autres. The people locked up in the bunker to live and die there for no purpose suffer as much from each other's company as from the omniscient evil power who put them there. But of course, being humans, they also feel love and responsibility and curiosity and compassion for each other, and that is what made the story so true to me.
It is a whole micro cosmos in a bunker!

Update: When I first read the book, an avid reader in Grade 6 asked if she could borrow the book, and I told her she had to wait a couple of years. She was very upset and complained about it several times to her mentor teacher. When she had finished Grade 9, I gave it to her, even though I didn't work in the library anymore, and asked her to come back to me and say what she thought, and whether she would have like her younger self to read it. It took a day or two, and she returned the book with tears in her eyes, claiming it was fantastic.

Then she added:

"Thank you for not letting me read it when I was 12!"

Those were the days when I taught in a school library...

[Beth · Rating 2 out of 5]

Until Tatiana reviewed this, I realised I'd actually forgotten to do so myself. And, frankly, skip this one. Please. I'm saying that to protect you.

The Bunker Diary made me think of my seriously unsettled view of True Art Is Angsty. The Bunker Diary is relentlessly miserable, depressing, and unforgiving. Think of the worst ending you can think of and triple it. It's well written, it's well structured, but it's not good.

Yes, I have no doubt that those of you who loved it (and possibly Brooks himself) will think that that's just part of the territory when it comes to writing a book as dark and raw as this one: "You just didn't get it." But, you guys, I love dark. Really, I do. I am the audience for this book.

But there is a significant difference between a type of dark that resonates, and one that doesn't. The Bunker Diary is nasty. I love horror, and nobody can deny that horror has its own propulsive power, whether or not you like it. Horror is thrilling and involving and haunting. The Bunker Diary is sort of haunting because Brooks thinks that he can cram in every possible atrocity that man does to man, and it probably won't be panned because a. he's Kevin Brooks and b. True Art Is Angsty.

I concede: it's incredibly suspenseful and many of the clues (were there multiple kidnappers? was one of the 'hostages' actually an accomplice themselves?) are fascinating, so I can't give it one star. Brooks IS too good a writer for one star.

But it builds to nothing. Realistically, perhaps - but the problem with this kind of realism, that sticks with nihilism at all costs, is that it has to be justified, for me at least. The darkest ending I've ever read (1984) is also my favourite, because it feels like the only (galling, frustrating, despairing, beautiful) ending the book could've had. The Bunker Diary occasionally pretends to have thematic resonance...of any kind. It doesn't, not really. The Big Brother cameras, the clues, the arc words ("You just think about that") build to nothing except gore, violence, death, violence, gore. There's no other reason for its existence, and I actually feel kind of pissed off because Brooks essentially implies there's more going on for the whole novel. He keeps teasing and teasing and teasing, and it's not the fact that it's unsolved, either. It's the fact that there seems like there was never a solution, and no answer in the first place. The Guardian review asked: "Is there less here than Brooks is implying?" Yes, there is. There's not really anything here.

Seriously, I don't really care if everybody dies, but I want to be made to care for some reason. I wasn't (except for Jenny, who basically only counted because Brooks threw in every "child in distressing situation" trope he could think of.) I did also like Linus, and his backstory was incredibly interesting, but you can only get so far on a plot that's been done better (if not with any more justification per se) by short stories. Yes, it was intense, it was compelling, but it wasn't WORTHWHILE. It had nothing new to say about man's cruelty to man, abduction or even violence. This is not early-day Saw, with its violence paid off by serious questions and plot twists. This is latter-day Saw, with gratuitous violence and perhaps some pretence at intelligence or depth, but nothing more so than that. Of course Brooks can make it sound good; he's Kevin Brooks. But that doesn't make it good.

Horrible, yes, but more unforgivingly - flat and pointless. Pass.

[Erik Fazekas · Rating 5 out of 5]

Oh my...
I am finished...
I am trembling...
I started this book 3 hours ago, now I am finished, I read the last page and then looked at several other blank pages after...
I don´t know what to say about this book, how to characterize it.
Just - It is sick and wrong and cruel in every possible way. And perfect and honest and true and exquisite in every other way.
And you have to read it to fully understand what it is about.
The topic is for sure not new, but masterfully executed. Yes this book was executed!
No more words from me...
Just - if every other Kevin Brooks is like this one, we are missing out a lot.

[STEPH · Rating 3 out of 5]

It took me a week to finish and get through this book and another to write a review. The disturbing images and the claustrophobic descriptions of the bunker are still etched on my mind. Holy shit.

I think I went a little nuts as I go along the pages, I shared the pain of the captives, I suffocated with them, I starved, I felt cold, I got confused, I licked my dry lips and felt a jolt of twist in my stomach, fearing the unknown.

Even though I was only a reader, I too felt trapped within those walls. This book will make you pray to all the Gods—pray that something like this would never happen to you or anyone. Freaking. Horrible.

This book is not for the weak. If you do not want to have nightmares and dark thoughts, skip this one. I’m gonna say it again; SKIP THIS ONE!

[Kristina Dauksiene · Rating 5 out of 5]

Juokaujat? Knyga jaunimui??!!
Nervinis drebulys nesitraukia iš kūno, širdis šuoliuoja, sunkus ir sprangus ašaringas gumulas įstrigęs gerklėj, nepaliaujamai grasina sprogsiantis.
Norėčiau būti neskaičiusi...nepatyrusi paskutinės tuštumos...norėčiau kad būtų kitaip...norėčiau...

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Are you kidding? A book for YA??!!
Nervous tremors do not leave the body, the heart is racing, a heavy and tense tearful lump is stuck in the throat, constantly threatening to explode...
I wish I had not read it... I wish not experienced the final emptiness... I wish it was different... I wish...

[Esmeralda Verdú · Rating 4 out of 5]

Diario del búnker es una novela juvenil diferente a todo lo que he leído antes, como también lo es su protagonista. El final me ha dejado muy asombrada, creía que había un error y que todavía quedaban páginas por leer. No puedo decir que dan la información con cuentagotas porque ni siquiera me dan las respuestas que quería, algo que ha hecho que mi opinión general sobre la historia cayera algo en picado. ¡No me puede dejar así! Necesito muchas respuestas. Si el autor nos quería dejar intrigados, lo ha conseguido sin duda.

Lee la reseña completa (¡Y UNA ENTREVISTA AL AUTOR!) aquí: http://fly-like-a-butterfly.blogspot....

[Andrea Belfiori · Rating 5 out of 5]

Mi sono accorto che dopo 3 anni non ho ancora scritto una recensione per questo libro. Ma sono ancora troppo devastato. E lo sarò per sempre.

[Yasmine · Rating 5 out of 5]

You know that feeling when you finish that book and you sit there motionless for a moment? This book is like that: spellbinding, thought provoking, stunning. I am finding incredibly hard to write this and talk about it coherently because I am just- I don't know. Shocked? Mesmerised I think would be more like it. What I really enjoyed about his book was that although there was a brilliant premise and plot, it was also so psychological and really made me think. I especially liked the way in which the writing changes to match what is happening to Linus; so often in first person narrated stories it bothers me that the style of writing and language doesn't change and that it's the same when the character is happy and when they are dying. What also makes this book so amazing, so clever, is the fact that throughout I was waiting for the climax of the escape back to the real world and when that didn't happen, I wasn't left feeling shortchanged or disappointed- in fact I think that in reality any alternative escape ending would have been an unbelievable anticlimax. We constantly see on the news stories about people disappearing, and so to find a book that depicts the awful reality of what often actually happens as opposed to a happy-ever-after ending is refreshingly rare, and I think this book is exquisitely horrific in that sense. Would definitely definitely recommend to my friends!

[Natasha Mostert · Rating 1 out of 5]

“It’s morbid. Why piss on life before you’ve even lived it?” This is a line from the excellent spy drama ‘Page Eight’ in which Bill Nighy’s character critiques his daughter’s tortured paintings. I was reminded of this line last night when I read the truly reprehensible book “The Bunker Diary.” As an author myself, I rarely rubbish any novel, but I do have a short list of books I find beyond redemption. Brett Ellis’s “American Psycho” is one. This YA novel by Kevin Brooks is definitely another.

*spoiler alert*

I am clearly in the minority. Bunker Diary won the 2014 Carnegie Award – Britain’s most prestigious children’s book prize. Reviews on Amazon – some written by readers as young as eleven -- are glowing. Librarians and teachers tell about placing the books in the hands of eager pupils and congratulate themselves on being so hip, so enlightened, so in tune with the angst of the teenage mind. I am disgusted. Nihilism does not even begin to describe the tone of this tale of a teenager locked in a basement cell by a psychotic stranger along with five other dysfunctional characters who are then given the option of killing each other in order to win their freedom. It includes scenes of torture, of a dog strangled to death, drug addiction, of an old man committing suicide by cutting his wrists with the sharp edge of his glass eye – it actually sounds comical when you read it like this – but it is not. It is vile. For 270 pages we witness the stinking physical deterioration and mental collapse of the hostages before the view point character too, dies, with no hope, no insight gained on the journey, no reason.

If this was a book written for an adult audience I would have called it a mildly interesting, if pointless plot and with the characters crudely drawn except for the viewpoint character who does manage to engage some empathy in the reader. As a novel written for YA readers, I am appalled. I do not have children myself but I have an 11 year old nephew and I would be desperate for him not to read this self-indulgent, gratuitous shock schlock. I get it that 21st century teenagers in the developed world have a lot to deal with and don’t live in Mayberry. But for goodness’ sakes – I grew up on a continent where children often have no shoes, let alone cell phones and computers, where basic amenities are scarce and where they have to envisage a future for themselves on a continent where there is constant war and disease. And despite all of this, they still manage to look for joy and hope.

[Josu Diamond · Rating 4 out of 5]

Me ha gustado mucho, sinceramente. No me esperaba que la novela fuera así para nada. Lo que más destacaría es que se lee en NADA, así que si buscas una lectura rápida, este es tu libro. Quizá en un par de horas lo hayas terminado, porque no solo la historia avanza de un modo rápido, sino que el estilo del autor es algo experimental (algo que me encanta) y demuestra mediante palabras el estado del protagonista, Linus. (Puesto que la novela es un diario, tiene sentido, claro.) Así que si tenemos a un protagonista rozando la locura, no tendremos páginas repletas de letras, sino más bien, lo contrario. Páginas a medio escribir, simplemente con verbos o capítulos que son líneas en vez de páginas. No sé, estas cosas siempre me encantan.

En cuanto a la historia... Me encuentro menos entusiasta. Me ha gustado la variedad de personajes y cómo son mostrados, así como su importancia en la historia. Sin embargo, las relaciones entre ellos no las he visto explotadas. Creo que la historia no ahonda demasiado en temas que podrían haber dado mucho juego en la novela. Es como que se queda muchas veces a las puertas, sin mojarse. Me ha dado pena, porque con un par de cambios en la historia sí que podría haber sido un novelón. Aun y todo, Diario del búnker es una historia que mezcla elementos de películas como Saw o del reality Gran Hermano (pero con un toque sádico), y que se lee enseguida. Es una lectura muy entretenida y con la que he disfrutado mucho.

[Jo Reads · Rating 5 out of 5]

E' un libro che ti distrugge lentamente, come distrugge i suoi protagonisti. Lo stile è limpido, pulito diretto, onesto... angosciante, come la storia che narra. E' un libro che non posso fare a meno di consigliare, ma devo dire onestamente, che sarebbe meglio che vi facciate un'idea di quello a cui andate incontro prima di iniziare la lettura.

[Alice Oseman · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book is absolute perfection. I would not change a single thing about it, especially the ending. The messages are so intricately woven and muddled in with often completely meaningless diversions that it can at times be difficult to understand what Brooks is actually attempting to communicate - but that's all part of the wonderful, intriguing mystery of this book. The reason that I couldn't give it full stars is because it's absolutely the most horrifying and unforgiving book I have ever read. It stopped me sleeping. I genuinely wish that I hadn't read it. I've read many bleak books, but this is by far the bleakest book I have ever read. Read with caution.

[Anita Vela · Rating 4 out of 5]

Reseña completa: http://anitavelabooks.blogspot.com.es...

Diario de búnker es el diario de Linus y se podría decir que es una mezcla entre Gran Hermano y SAW, imaginad que se puede sacar de eso: demasiada locura junto con partes un poco macabras y duras, por eso la comparación con SAW, y eso que supone que es una novela juvenil, pero puede pasar perfectamente por una historia de adultos. Sinceramente, a mí me ha parecido una historia muy original, te engancha por momentos, conforme vas leyendo quieres leer más y más… y muy diferente. Aunque, he de decir que el final me ha decepcionado bastante.

Los personajes me han gustado bastante porque confunden mucho al lector, cada cual está más loco y la tensión aumenta cada día que pasa. Otra cosa que también me ha gustado es que sean tan personajes variados y diferentes entre ellos, pero, creo que hubiera sido muy interesante que hubiera diferentes puntos de vista de los demás personajes, porque solo con el punto de vista de Linus se me queda un poco coja la historia. También puede que sea una “quierosaberlotodo” y que los personajes son extraños, hubiera molado saber que piensan ellos también.

Y lo que menos me ha gustado, y por eso no le doy las 5 estrellas, es el final. Como ya os he adelantado, me ha decepcionado bastante porque no te explica absolutamente nada de nada, te deja con toda la intriga en el cuerpo y se acaba la historia como si nada hubiera pasado. Jope, yo quería saber TODO, pero, con las ganas me he quedado. Ains, si es que no me gustan nada los finales así… ¡¡yo necesito explicaciones!! Aun así, merece mucho la pena leer esta historia.

En resumen, Diario del búnker es una historia juvenil muy diferente al resto, es muy intrigante y muy, MUY adictiva. Si os gusta SAW, os la recomiendo mucho.

[TheBookAddictedGirl · Rating 5 out of 5]

4½ Out of 5
“I thought he was blind. That's how he got me. I still can't believe I fell for it. I keep playing it over in my mind, hoping I'll do something different, but it always turns out the same...”
“A thousand questions have streamed through my head.
Where am I? Where's the blind man? Who is he? What does he want? What's he going to do to me? What am I going to do?
I don't know…”
Linus was living on the streets, living rough. But that doesn't mean he was rough. When he saw the blind guy struggling, he went and helped.
Linus didn't see it coming.
One minute, he's helping this blind man. The next, there's a cloth of chloroform over his mouth.
And the next... he's here. Wherever here is. It's underground (he thinks), has no windows, no doors out, no ways out. It's inescapable.
And he can't figure out what this man wants. Why the hell he's doing this to Linus. The best theory he has is that the guy found out who Linus' dad is and kidnapped him for ransom.
That theory? Yeah, it goes out the window (or it would if there were one) when the others start showing up...
Some books... some books are just impossible to put into words. Impossible to find the words for them. The Bunker Diary was exactly that book. It is literally everyone's worst nightmare put to paper. Someone, you don't know who, snatches you and leaves you in a windowless, doorless building. You don't know where, you don't know why and you don't know what he's going to do to you... Reading The Bunker Diary was utterly terrifying, horrible and awful. It was also utterly amazing. Stunning. It's one of those books you start reading and instantly find yourself hooked. You will read it in one go, heart-pounding, terrified, in awe, hooked. In fact I’m not even sure I can say much without giving it all away. But it was stunning. Incredible. Horrible. Amazing. You will read it and be one-hundred-per-cent hooked, start to finish. And Oh. My. God. Just… God… I have no words…
The characters in this book, well, they all felt really, really real. Some I liked. Some I hated. All were totally and utterly real to me. Just off the page. I may not have known much about any of their pasts or whatever but I felt them all...
I really liked Linus. He was a strong character: brave – definitely a hell of a lot braver than I would've been in his place. He was so together – so strong and calm. I loved how we slowly learned this, slowly got to know him. The way it happened slowly – like we were gaining his trust. And even then, he held things back. After all: who knows who'd be reading this diary?
Jenny was really sweet. Out of all of them, she was the one who deserved it least – she was so young, so sweet, so innocent. So brave. And I loved the relationship between her and Linus – it was really sweet. Like brother and sister. And unlike all the other relationships in this book, it was pure. Y'know? Not bitter or anything. They kept one another going.
I really loved Russell. I HATED Bird. Like actual, physical hate. He was so annoying and horrible and just ugh! I wasn’t a fan of Anja either. Fred was ok...
And I thought the group dynamics were totally believable. I mean, they didn't all get along. You throw a whole load of various people in together, they aren't gonna get along like a house on fire. I mean, have you seen I'm A Celebrity? So there was bickering – and quite a lot of it. It was, in a totally sick way, intriguing to watch these so very different personalities interact under the intense pressure. Horrible, yes, but interesting. Especially the enemy started screwing with them. Playing games. Messing with their heads. Could you hold out – keep fighting, stay together – with a psychopath pulling at your strings? Can Linus and the others? Read and find out, my friends...
As for Him, "The Man Upstairs. Mister Crazy. The Man With No Name," he was terrifying. Horrible. Despicable. I mean, who does that?! Seriously. What kinda person do you have to be? Off topic, I found it really interesting that Linus referred to him as "Him". Why? Because generally when we use a capital for 'Him' we're talking about God... *I start to ponder again*
The writing was, quite frankly, stunning. I was hooked from the word go. I could hear Linus' voice in my head, I felt what he did, felt the anger and fear and desperation. I was tugged in, held there, never let go, not once. Not even left go when I'd read the last word and put the book down. Some of Brooks' words.... they just stayed. Right there in my head, lingering.
Oh, and I loved the voice changed depending on what Linus was going through. That was pure genius on Brooks' part.
This plot. My God! Talk about terrifying. It was suspenseful, to say the least. What made the whole story even worse was that nothing really happened. It's not like a serial killer book, where the bad guy whips out a knife and kills a whole bunch of people. No, this book was about the fear. The fear of what could happen. What new psychological torture the beep is gonna wreak on you. And I never knew what would happen next - never knew what the next sick trick would be. Just never knew. The plot: god, I never saw anything coming ever. And that ending.... Oh. My. Freaking. God. I just... God. Whoa. Man. Horrible. And so different from usual YA endings too…
But what made this book stunning was the horrifying reality it had. People go missing all the time. Kidnapped. Taken. Tortured. Killed. Children. Teenagers. Adults. Rich. Poor. No one's safe. That is why it is so very terrifying – and why The Bunker Diary really, truly packed one hell of a punch. It's stunning. Hard hitting. Unputdownable.
This book... Just, God. I can't, can't even... Just can't. Can't stop thinking about it. Can't get it out of my head. Can't get over it, not when my hearts still racing like this. Can't find the words. Can't do it justice. Can't. Just, can't...
Sorry, I'm not being very eloquent here... It's just, some books, you can't find the words - not when it's spinning around in your head, taking over your thoughts. You just can't seem to find the words. So all I’ll say is: Yes, The Bunker Diary is terrifying and horrible and shocking and has left me speechless and possibly a little mentally scarred, but you... you just have to read it. It is incredible. In a horrible way, it is utterly and irrevocably incredible. I can't recommend it enough really.

[Tatiana · Rating 2 out of 5]

So depressing and so pointless in the end. I guess I need someone to explain it to me?

I wanted to accuse whoever judges Carnegie medal awarding of being morbid, but then I remembered Printz Honor for Nothing, which is only slightly less depressing, but better written.

In the end, I would classify The Bunker Diary as more of a torture porn experiment (like those Saw movies) than quality literature for teens. But that's just me.

[Martina · Rating 1 out of 5]

I dont really know what to say about this book. I found it quite boring and extremely dissapointing.

The start was promising. Sixteen year old Linus was taken and imprisoned in a bunker. Throughtout the novel, more people joined him. Well that's basically it, nothing more happends.
There is a bit when Linus is looking back on this life and I guess this is supposed to make the reader feel sorry for him, but the whole poor little rich boy bullshit did not work for me.

Except for Linus, there is no character development which makes the characters seem somewhat unreal. It also resulted in me not caring about any of them, except for Jenny, who was probably the only likable character.

I absolutelly dispised the ending. Not because it was bleak and depressing,(I love bleak and depressing. I hated it because it just seemed like Brooks run out of ideas and didnt know what to write but had to end it somehow. I offered no answers, and it didnt even give any hints. The ending is not ambiguous as some readers suggest because it is obvious that Linus dies in the end. This would have been completelly ok, if there was some revelation behind it which would give the book some meaning or depth

The only reason I gave it two stars is because Brooks really captured the feeling of isolation and claustrophobia. Other then that, the book did nothing for me.

[Ƙʏᴙᴀ · Rating 5 out of 5]

Claustrofobico e brutale. Non saranno originali ma riesco a trovare altri termini per descrivere questo libro. Ammetto di essere distrutta, stanotte quando l'ho finito stentavo a crederci che un libro considerato per ragazzi potesse essere così intenso e realistico. Il finale poi ti fa venir voglia di chiamare lo scrittore e farci una bella chiacchieratina.
A ripensarci probabilmente non c'era momento migliore per finirlo se non di notte, al buio, con solo una lucetta a far compagnia.

"Penso a voi.
A te, e anche a te.
Penso a voi, tutti comodi nel vostro nulla. Non state facendo niente. Esistete soltanto e nel leggere questo mi uccidete. Non uscirò mai da qui. Non arriverò mai a bruciarvi. Allora vi metto davanti a ciò che siete.
E penso anche a te, di sopra.
Si fa quel che si deve. Si fa quel che si deve…
Promesse.
Corpo. Aria. Cibo. Acqua. Sangue.
Eternità.
Meditaci un po’ su."

[Lu❤am · Rating 4 out of 5]

Necesitaba desquitarme con un libro de empezar y acabarlo y así ha sido.Lo tenía en mi kindle desde hace años y lo he devorado en tres horas ,iba sin demasiadas pretensiones y he de decir que me ha sorprendido gratamente.Es angustioso y claustrofóbico de principio a fin!!

[Sławek (Żółwie Książkowe) · Rating 2 out of 5]

OCENA: 2,5 ⭐️ DZIENNIK Z BUNKRA po opisie zapowiadał się jako klimatyczny thriller z motywem walki o przetrwanie w podziemnym bunkrze. Nie było aż tak kolorowo:

Brakowało akacji i pomimo niedługiej formy miałem wrażenie, że dzieje się za mało. Bohaterowie byli flegmatyczni, nie mogli się zgrać, a mi jako czytelnikowi trudno było ich polubić.

Jednak zakończenie wiele rekompensuje! W trakcie lektury zastanawiałem się jak wszystko się skończy... Nie przewidziałem tak mrocznego i przejmującego finału, gdzie forma dziennika (bo tak była pisana powieść) sprawdziła się idealnie. 🤯

Jak widać mam wiele do zarzucenia tej książce, aczkolwiek jeśli macie chwilę to może warto po nią sięgnąć dla zakończenia. 🤔

[Joost · Rating 4 out of 5]

Bunkerdagboek, een boek dat ik nooit zal vergeten, zeker door het einde...
http://nerdygeekyfanboy.com/recensie/...

[Ellis ♥ · Rating 4 out of 5]

Brutale e claustrofobico.

[Manybooks · Rating 3 out of 5]

Now honestly speaking, what Kevin Brooks textually presents in his 2014 Carnegie Medal winning dystopian young adult novel The Bunker Diary is certainly brilliantly penned (and with main protagonist and diarist Linus' narrative voice shining brightly, authentically and brutally realistically). And as such, yes indeed, I definitely do consider The Bunker Diary as absolutely worthy of its Carnegie Medal designation and that Kevin Brooks as an author is with regard to his penmanship amazingly and spectacularly talented (and also, that for the right type of audience, that for readers from about the age of fourteen or so onwards who enjoy hopeless and hard hitting, brutally dystopian fiction with no happy endings, with nothing but depicted pain and suffering, suffering and even more suffering, The Bunker Diary will probably, will likely be a total reading fit so to speak).

However and truly, I am not and have also never been that kind of reading audience. And thus, since I obviously do not really enjoy dystopian fiction and actually even tend to rather despise for pleasure reading novels and short stories that are basically mostly just negative, painful and with little to no presented hope, albeit that I can and do (as already mentioned above) appreciate Kevin Brooks and how he has written The Bunker Diary style wise and with a personally engaging first person (diary) narration, to tell my personal truth of the matter, sorry, but the presented and textually encountered themes and contents of The Bunker Diary (and in particular that basically EVERYONE who has been kidnapped and deposited in the bunker, including Linus and little Jenny die, that there is simply an ending of extreme and all encompassing pain and suffering and with not even some minor redemption and hope whatsoever offered with regard to The Bunker Diary), yes, this has made me not only majorly frustrated with and by Kevin Brooks' story, it also does leave me quite emotionally angry and hugely annoyingly frustrated.

And to be honest, while with The Bunker Diary I might be able to accept and to handle the depicted violence, the hopelessness and perhaps even the gruesome deaths, if Kevin Brooks would make his story ending a bit more positive, if for example at least Linus and Jenny could be shown by Brooks as surviving, but well, the all encompassing gloom, the relentless violence and that there is only textual negativity encountered throughout The Bunker Diary and with no ending that is in any way even just a trifle hopeful, yes and Kevin Brooks' talents as a brilliant author notwithstanding, for me, The Bunker Diary has been thematically ONLY painful, ONLY uncomfortable, ONLY horrifying, and as such with regard to potential reading pleasure, since there in fact is NONE of that for me with The Bunker Diary, I can and will only consider a ver low three star rating for The Bunker Diary (and that this three star rating is also hugely generous on my part, since I really DO NOT like this novel, even if I do consider the Carnegie Medal for The Bunker Diary as worthy and as being very much highly deserved).

[Valery Tikappa · Rating 4 out of 5]

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4.5
Wow.
Solo wow.
Quando ho cominciato "Bunker Diary" sapevo solo che era uno young adult e che aveva vinto la Medal nel 2014.
Quello che so ad oggi, dopo aver finito il libro è che NON è uno young adult. Proprio per nulla. E merita al 100% il premio che gli è stato assegnato.
Il protagonista e narratore è Linus, ragazzo di sedici anni che si ritrova improvvisamente in un bunker, dopo essere stato addormentato da un uomo cieco -o almeno Linus cosi credeva-che lui cercava di aiutare.
Suddetto bunker non ha finestre, non ha porta d'uscita, ha sei stanze, sei sedie, sei di tutto. Ed ha un ascensore. A poco a poco, da questo ascensore cominciano ad arrivare altre persone, cinque in tutto, rapite dallo stesso uomo che si è sempre presentato loro in modi differenti.
Queste sei persone sono costrette a vivere di stenti, senza luce solare, senza libertà, con privazioni fisiche e morali a causa de "l'uomo di sopra", il loro rapitore, che li tratta come topi. Li premia e li punisce e suo piacimento, sottoponendoli a torture di ogni tipo, senza mai farli uscire da quel maledetto bunker.
Ora che ho spiegato un po' la trama, lasciatemi dire che questo libro è un capolavoro e che fa un male cane. La scrittura di Linus è schietta, diretta, descrive con chiarezza le giornate all'interno di quella trappola.
Descrive il suo rapporto con la persona più piccola del gruppo, una bimba di quasi 10 anni di nome Jenny.
Sa che nessuno ha idea del perchè si trovi lì, da chi sia stato rapito e per quale motivo. Non sanno nulla dell'uomo di sopra, non sanno chi è e il motivo che l'ha spinto a rapirli. Sanno che sono in trappola. Sanno che l'uomo di sopra li spia con microfoni e telecamere in ogni stanza. Anche in bagno.
Sopravvivono ma non vivono. Non vivono più.
E' un excursus all'interno della mentalità malata di uomini che ESISTONO e che sottopongono altri uomini a tali orrori. E' una testimonianza di un ragazzino che non ha nemmeno cominciato a vivere e che sa che probabilmente non potrà farlo mai più.
E a poco a poco, quelle sei persone non sopravvivono più. Non resistono, non ce la fanno. Lottano, poi smettono. Poi lottano. Poi si arrendono. E via, sempre così.
Bunker Diary è un romanzo orrendo, nel senso effettivo del termine: racconta di orrori che vengono imposti a persone differenti fra loro, che si ritrovano improvviamente nella stessa situazione.
E' un libro che fa male. Fa così male che fa piangere e fa torcere lo stomaco, e fa male. Fa male male male.
L'ho divorato in una serata e, davvero, è uno di quei libri che lasciano a bocca aperta e che meriterebbero tanti premi.
Ma non è uno young adult. Non è un romanzo tenero, non è un romanzo da poter leggere con leggerezza.
Il motivo per cui si becca 4.5 stelline e non 5 è il finale.




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- Non ho sopportato di non saper nulla del rapitore. Non ho sopportato di leggere quelle parole, quelle ultime parole, e rimanere ignara, come i protagonisti del romanzo. Volevo sapere perchè, i motivi, volevo salvezza, volevo giustizia.
Non l'ho avuta. Ma il mondo, in realtà, è così, vero? Non sempre c'è giustizia non sempre c'è risoluzione del mistero.
Quindi i miei complimenti a Brooks, geniale.

[Loreta Griciutė · Rating 5 out of 5]

"Viskas tėra žaidimas. Jis žaidžia savo žaidimą, mes žaidžiam savąjį. Jo žaidimas - duoti mums, ko norime (tai priklauso nuo mūsų ydų ar dar ko nors, kas, jo nuomone, mums pakenks, bet išryškins mūsų silpnybes), o tada žiūrėti, kas nutiks.
...
Užminga, nenubunda.
Mano ašaros kraujo skonio.
Labai atsiprašau.
Skauda it nudirtam gyvam.
Prašau man atleisti".

Labai stipri, įtraukianti, priverčianti apie daug ką susimąstyti, šokiruojanti ir siaubinga knyga, įtampa puikiai išlaikyta nuo pradžios iki pabaigos, kai skaitai, ir neturi jokio suvokimo, kuo visa istorija pasibaigs, ir ne tokios tragiškos pabaigos aš tikėjausi; ir liko daug neatsakytų klausimų : kodėl būtent tie skirtingo amžiaus žmonės buvo pagrobti? kodėl būtent 6? už ką jiems taip? kas buvo tas pagrobėjas?

Būtinai ieškosiu kitų autoriaus knygų ir norėsiu jas visas perskaityti ateityje.

[Vaida Book lover❤️ · Rating 4 out of 5]

,,Amžinos liepsnos ir prakeikimas, velniai trišakiai ir žarijos.."
Tai baisi knyga, kupina siaubo ir skausmo. Kol skaičiau kirbėjo tik viena mintis, koks geras siaubo filmas išeitų..
Lainas pagrobiamas.. Įkalinamas.. Neaišku už ką ir kam.. Išpirkos niekas neprašo.. Jo dienas keičia tik lifto rėžimas.. Jis vis nusileidžia.. Bet tuščias.. Kol vieną kartą.. Nusileidžia ne tuščias 🔥🔥
Kas vyksta toliau grynų gryniausias siaubas, kaip ir nepalaužiama jaunuolio stiprybė..
Kas nutiks ir aš galima tikėtis laimingos pabaigos?
Nors tai paauglių literatūra, bet ji tokia šiurpi.. Tai vyksta kasdien.. Kasdien kažkas, kažkur dingsta..
Sužavėjo rašymo stilius, dienoraštis.. Lengva susitapatinti, perimti, jausmus ir išgyvenimus..
Tikrai neskaitytina silpnų nervų skaitytojams. Ypač kam svetimas siaubo žanras. 📚🔥

[Tina · Rating 3 out of 5]

Fue entretenido e intrigante, me hizo angustiar y preocupar bastante. Tenía buenas reflexiones y me gustaba el protagonista.

Pero no me gustó el final. Se podría decir que es realista, aunque me hubiera gustado obtener más respuestas. Como que me esperaba un gran plot twist al final que me rompiera la cabeza o algo así, y eso no pasó... así que fue un poco decepcionante por eso.

[Karin Michael · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book was bitter-sweetly heartbreaking which left me feeling depressed a minute after I finished reading it. The sad thing is there are some sick people like that in the world who do such things and that makes me hate the world we live in.

Full review to come.

[Diana · Rating 2 out of 5]

He pensado bastante al rededor de este libro y si tengo muchas cosas que decir.

"¿Por qué seis?
No lo sé
Aquí no hay nadie más que yo."

En primer lugar, la historia es muy interesante pero se ve empobrecida por el desarrollo que tuvo a lo largo de todo el libro.

"Me quedé sentado durante un rato en una oscuridad pétrea, siempre con el oído atento por si el ascensor bajaba de nuevo. No sé que esperaba, tal vez un milagro, o quizás una pesadilla. Pero no sucedió nada. Ni ascensor, ni pisadas. Ni la caballería, ni los monstruos.
Nada.
La casa estaba muerta como un cementerio."

No tuve problemas al conectar con el personaje principal ni con la situación que se presentó sino que me constó, bastante, apreciar el desarrollo de la obra. Si bien la historia se cuenta en forma de diario ¿por qué la escritura no esta en función de esa estructura? ¿acaso cuando alguien escribe en su diario personal se toma la molestia de escribir todo con diálogos? Ademas, existe una enorme carencia de relaciones personales. Me da igual como era su vida anteriormente, Linus nunca intentó sonsacar información de los demás, investigarlos, ¿por qué los escogieron? ¿qué características tenían en común para que todos quedaran atrapados ahí? Simplemente él no trata de intuir nada, solo planea salir de ahí a lo bruto.

"Tienes que creértelo... eso es. Tienes que creerte tus propias mentiras."

El libro es muy decepcionante si se piensa en la estructura del mismo, existen entradas del diario que no aportan nada, parece que los escribió un drogadicto (y casualmente logró escribir sus ultimas palabras).

"Vivir sin amor es difícil.
Es tan difícil que nos hace llorar."

Por ultimo, el libro es muy desesperanzador, algo que me deprime pero no me molesta dado que existen casos de desaparecid@s que nunca sabremos el cómo ni el por qué. No obstante, me molestó bastante las lineas finales, muy bobas; el autor trata de que la escritura este en función del degradamiento del personaje principal pero al meter estructura de novela se pierde la veracidad del diario. De hecho, ni si quiera me importó que no se dijera por qué terminaron ahí, no se puede saber todo, incluso esta bien puesto que no siempre obtenemos las respuestas.

"Todos nosotros somos iguales.
Somos intercambiables."