| Author | Message | ||
     Patrick Walker (Patrick_walker) Username: Patrick_walker Registered: 01-2010 Posted From: 195.59.153.201 |
For everybody here not too proud to be reading "young adult" fiction, I really cannot recommend too highly Long Lankin by Lindsey Barraclough. I read a proof copy of this, recommended to me by a couple of colleagues at work, and I admit I didn't have great expectations; the last Young Adult novel I read on the recommendation of almost everyone was, in fact, a big load of shite. But I tell you, this is far too frightening to be a children's book. The level of horror and creeping dread in this novel is the equal of almost anything else I have read. I loved it and it's a genuinely effective, scary and well-written book, for teenagers or not. | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.96.253.77 |
"Not too proud"...what does that mean? I've been reading young adult fiction since before the term YA was even invented. Alan Garner, anyone?  | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.23.74.137 |
Fear not, the great literary master that is John Barrowman has just written one. | ||
| Weber (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 82.145.216.65 |
And graham joyce has a few ya books out too. The couple that i've read are very good. Carl hiaasen does them too. They tend to be just like his adult books but minus the sex and on screen violence | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.177.115.204 |
Yep, Alan Garner, Susan Cooper, John Gordon... Although in fairness Garner said that he didn't write for children; rather his tales had children as the main characters. I shall look up 'Long Lankin'. | ||
| Stevie Walsh (Stephenw) Username: Stephenw Registered: 03-2009 Posted From: 82.29.252.215 |
Clive Barker. | ||
| David_lees (David_lees) Username: David_lees Registered: 12-2011 Posted From: 92.22.28.28 |
The setting for John Barrowman's book is supposed to be a fictionalised version of the island just across the water from where I live. I'm almost tempted to give it a read just for that. | ||
| Ramsey Campbell (Ramsey) Username: Ramsey Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 92.8.17.193 |
...Philip Pullman, Diana Wynne Jones... | ||
| Stevie Walsh (Stephenw) Username: Stephenw Registered: 03-2009 Posted From: 194.32.31.1 |
Ursula K. Le Guin. | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 99.126.164.88 |
Roald Dahl. | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.177.115.204 |
Ordered 'Long Lankin' - thanks for the recommendation, Patrick. | ||
| Ramsey Campbell (Ramsey) Username: Ramsey Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 92.8.24.153 |
And so have I! Thanks, Patrick! | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.177.115.204 |
I finished this last week - it's a truly wonderful book. | ||
| Patrick Walker (Patrick_walker) Username: Patrick_walker Registered: 01-2010 Posted From: 91.125.52.4 |
Other than Mick, did anyone here ever read this novel in the end? I'm eager to know what you thought about it. As I said above, I found the level of horror and creeping dread in this novel to be the equal of almost anything else I have read. It's a wonderful, genuinely frightening book and I loved it. | ||
| Ramsey Campbell (Ramsey) Username: Ramsey Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 92.8.27.247 |
I rather liked it - certainly thought it had moments of real eeriness. |