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Bezig met laden... American Elsewhere (editie 2013)door Robert Jackson Bennett (Auteur)
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. Quite a good book, well written. I don't usually enjoy descriptions, but in this book they added to the atmosphere. Story is intriguing. ( ) Under a pink moon, there is a perfect little town not found on any map, and in that little town are quiet streets lined with pretty houses that conceal the strangest things. Ex-cop Mona Bright inherits her long-dead mother’s home in Wink, New Mexico, and when she gets there, she finds that the people of Wink are very, very different. Woo. Lovecraftian horror. This really reminded me of the podcast Welcome to Night Vale, which, if you haven’t listened to before, you really ought to. I loved Mona -- she’s pragmatic, realistic, cynical, even in the face of some really weird shit going down. And while I get that Bennett is more literary than a lot of authors out there, I sort of wished that this book had been trimmed down a little -- I was really experiencing book fatigue by about page 500, but I knew if I put it down, I’d never pick it back up. This is not to say that the book isn’t fantastic -- it really is, and it may make it onto my favorites shelf. It was definitely a joyride. my sites: libri || tarocchi Un Horror dalla h maiuscola! Ho adorato ogni singola pagina. La protagonista, Mona Bright, mi è piaciuta fin da subito: è simpatica, imbranata, coraggiosa e disperata. Anche gli altri personaggi sono ben caratterizzati, agiscono coerentemente alla loro indole e il registro linguistico è diverso per ognuno. I capitoli sono corti e super intensi! Questa storia racchiude un po’ di [b:Casa di foglie|8786712|Casa di foglie|Mark Z. Danielewski|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1328141601l/8786712._SX50_.jpg|856555], Twin Peaks (per la città decisamente fuori dal comune) e [b:Welcome to Night Vale|23129410|Welcome to Night Vale (Welcome to Night Vale, #1)|Joseph Fink|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1447774088l/23129410._SY75_.jpg|42677282] (per i cittadini stranissimi), ma tutti in versione molto più dark. Per finire un paio di cosine che non mi tornano del tutto e sul quale avrei voluto leggere di più nel libro: 1. Qual è la storia dietro quei totem/teschietti? A parte che sono dei portali per arrivare al Wildling..ma perché esistono? Chi li ha fatti? Come fa il servitore della Madre a trovarli, capire cosa fanno? 2. Se la ragazza (che viene mandata a prendere i teschietti) riesce a fare via e vai dalla “prigione” del Wildling, perché lui non può uscire?! A little Welcome to Nightvale, a little H.P. Lovecraft. It started out a little slow, then it got pretty Lovecraftian and correspondingly creepy and intriguing, but the denouement was a big letdown. Plus there were a number of characters and plot threads that just were abandoned geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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From one of our most talented and original new literary voices comes the next great American supernatural novel: a work that explores the dark dimensions of the hometowns and the neighbors we thought we knew. Some places are too good to be true. Under a pink moon, there is a perfect little town not found on any map: Wink, New Mexico. In that town, there are quiet streets lined with pretty houses, houses that conceal the strangest things. After a couple years of hard traveling, ex-cop Mona Bright inherits her long-dead mother's home. And the closer Mona gets to her mother's past, the more she understands that the people of Wink are very, very different ... "Perfect for fans of Stephen King and Neil Gaiman." --- Library Journal. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Google Books — Bezig met laden... GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)813.6Literature English (North America) American fiction 21st CenturyLC-classificatieWaarderingGemiddelde:
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