posted
Ok, so last night I just finished Lost Boys, and so today I started looking up the old threads on the book, and some things were raised in another thread and I was gonna ask my question there, but then it got into a whole thing about housewives, so I thought I shouldn't dig that up again.
Anyway, so alot of people have said that they figured out who it was who was the killer a few pages before it was revealed, and that happened to me too. But I still don't understand why. Is it because of some convention that is typically used and so my subconscious picked up on it? Or were there really hints all along, and not until that moment do you realize who it really is. I don't know - it still baffles me that I knew who it was before it came, and I'm just trying to understand how I knew...or anyone else did.
Posts: 1261 | Registered: Jun 2002
| IP: Logged |
posted
I think it is that there were hints all along and you picked up on them. I don't have the book on me, but I suppose there is another hint that is kind of the straw the breaks the camel's back, and you have it figured out.
It has been a long time since I read it, but tell me. Do you think that information increased or decreased the tension?
Posts: 3495 | Registered: Feb 2000
| IP: Logged |
posted
I myself was totally surprised at the end. I think I was too wrapped up in the family drama to even think much about the identity of the killer.
Edit to add: Lost Boys is probably my favorite book by OSC.
posted
But if I was picking up clues the whole time, it was totally subconscious, because when I finally realized it was Bappy, I was totally surprised.
I don't think that information had much effect on the tension, because the tension at the end wasn't from it being revealed who it was done to, but more of what happened to Stevie.
Posts: 1261 | Registered: Jun 2002
| IP: Logged |
posted
I've read it so many times I can't remember my reaction the first time I read it. However, I don't think knowledge makes things less scary. Hitchcock always added in a little extra information at the end of his movies so that the audience knew what the charecters didn't, and knew exactly how scary the end scence was, especially with the main charecter not knowing whose about to try and kill them.
Printer-friendly view of this topic
![[Embarrassed]](redface.gif)
However, I don't think knowledge makes things less scary. Hitchcock always added in a little extra information at the end of his movies so that the audience knew what the charecters didn't, and knew exactly how scary the end scence was, especially with the main charecter not knowing whose about to try and kill them.![[Smile]](smile.gif)
