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Jonathan (Jonathan)
Username: Jonathan
Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 91.143.178.131
| | Posted on Tuesday, February 17, 2009 - 06:04 pm: | |
Just finished reading this and must say that I thought it was one of the best horror novels of the past few years. Joe Hill is a fantastic writer. The plot was gripping, the characterisation spot on and there was a certain lyrical darkness to the book that I found strangely seductive.
Anyone else read it? |
Mark_lynch (Mark_lynch)
Username: Mark_lynch
Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 212.74.96.200
| | Posted on Tuesday, February 17, 2009 - 07:39 pm: | |
Yup. Wasn't as convinced by the time it turned into your standard chase novel as i was by the start, and the rules of the "haunting" seemed to change according to the plot's needs (how effable the spook was), but I did finish it. Hate ot make the comparison, but it felt a lot like Ruichard Bachman. |
Mark_lynch (Mark_lynch)
Username: Mark_lynch
Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 212.74.96.200
| | Posted on Tuesday, February 17, 2009 - 07:40 pm: | |
Sorry aboutt he typos. Been hammering (with a hammer) lately, especially today, and I have flat fingers. |
Zed (Gary_mc)
Username: Gary_mc
Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 81.96.241.143
| | Posted on Tuesday, February 17, 2009 - 07:41 pm: | |
Yeah, I very much enjoyed it at the time but don't rate it as highly as some. It's a good, fast-moving horror novel. No more, no less.
So far, I prefer Hill's short fiction to his longer work. I am looking forward to whatever his next novel will be, though. |
Weber_gregston (Weber_gregston)
Username: Weber_gregston
Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 195.8.175.44
| | Posted on Wednesday, February 18, 2009 - 01:40 pm: | |
I loved it myself. Thought it was almost the literary equivalent of superglue on the cover (ie I couldn't put it down). |