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Bezig met laden... Growing Things and Other Stories (origineel 2019; editie 2019)door Paul Tremblay (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.   ) SharonMariaBidwell | Dec 31, 2023 |  -Growing Things -Swim Wants to Know if It's as Bad as Swim Thinks -Something About Birds -The Getaway -Nineteen Snapshots of Dennisport -Where We All Will Be -The Teacher -Notes for 'The Barn in the Wild' -Our Town's Monster -A Haunted House is a Wheel Upon Which Some Are Broken -It Won't Go Away -Notes from the Dog Walkers -Further Questions for the Somnambulist -The Ice Tower -The Society of the Monsterhood -Her Red Right Hand -It's Against the Law to Feed the Ducks' -The Thirteenth Temple Lemeritus | Aug 14, 2023 |  ) ninagl | Jan 7, 2023 | 2.7 average, rounded down. Individual ratings under the break. Growing things - 3 stars An older sister tells her younger sister variations of the same story, about plants growing out of control. Lots of connections to A Head Full of Ghosts (thanks, foreword for letting me know!) but even without that context it's a strange, weird, feverish little story. Swim wants to know if it's as bad as swim thinks - 3 stars An addicted mother tries to take her child to safety. Sympathetic protagonist and good stream-of-consciousness Something about birds - 4 stars A young college student interviews the author of his favorite short story and receives a bird head that acts as an invitation as a gift. Super weird and atmospheric. The getaway - 4 stars 4 criminals start disappearing one by one in their getaway car. Short, quick, interesting. Nineteen snapshots of Dennisport - 3 stars A man remembers his father's last summer through the titular snapshots. OK. Where we all will be - 2 stars A neurodivergent boy finds himself the odd one out as everyone else hears a mysterious call. Very sweet that he wrote this for his son, but it's too bare bones. The teacher - 5 stars A teacher gives his students unconventional lessons. Unsettling, frustrating, amazing. Notes for "The Barn in the Wild" - 4 stars A man goes out to find a mysterious barn. Love the format of journal entries and dueling footnotes. _______ - 3 stars A family out on the beach encounters a woman who immediately acts as though she's their mom and wife. Very interesting and surreal, but also incredibly vague. Our town's monster - 2 stars A young couple moves into a house near the swamp where the monster lives. A great last line but that's about it. A haunted house is a wheel upon which some are broken - 3 stars A woman returns to the house of her childhood. I wanted to like this one a lot more (haunted house! Choose-your-own-adventure!) but it wasn't very scary or impactful. It won't go away - 3 stars A man receives a photo from a friend who recently committed suicide. Upon examination, there's something with him in the photo... Good idea, just ambiguous enough. But not particularly memorable. Notes from the dog walkers - 1 star Dog-walkers leave notes for their client, but one in particular is becoming too invested. I HATED this one. Overly meta, pretentious, boring, way too long... if it had kept as a quasi-home invasion kind of story that would have been way better. Further questions for the somnambulist - 1 star Three voices (a woman, a child, and an old man), asking questions in the form of a poem. Boring, pointless, bland. The ice tower - 2 stars An ice climbing group attempts to scale an ice tower. I love polar/artic survival and exploration stories, but this one was so bare bones that I didn't care about any of the characters or what they were doing, and the ending was so unsatisfying I put the story out of mind immediately. The society of the monsterhood - 2 stars 4 kids from a rough neighborhood form a group based on the fact that they are bussed to a private school every day, and threaten those who bully them with a monster. Started out really well, but the ending fell totally flat. Her red right hand - 3 stars A young girl uses art to deal with the death of her mother and her father's ensuing depression. I didn't realize it was a Hellboy story until I recognized Hellboy. Pretty fun. It's against the law to feed the ducks - 2 stars A young boy's family is on vacation when something seems to have gone wrong. The boy was totally annoying and nothing was even barely explained. The thirteenth temple - 2 stars Merry (from HFoG) placates a fan who broke into her hotel room with a story about a town building and demolishing 13 temples. I'm not sure why there needed to be the connection to a previously existing work, since this probably would have been a good story on its own (even though, as I've come to expect, nothing made sense or was explained).  )1  Elna_McIntosh | Sep 29, 2021 | These short stories are a delightful mix of horror, the supernatural, paranormal, and basic fiction. The first story “Growing Things” kept me on the edge of my seat, and I was disappointed when it ended. I would love to read an entire novel based off of the premise he introduced. My other favorites were “Swim Wants to Know”, where events are being told by an unreliable narrator, leaving you unsure as to if the events in the background are actually occurring or not. “A Haunted House” is unique in that it is set up like a Choose Your Own Adventure book, where you follow a woman to her childhood home. “It Won’t Go Away” reminded me strongly of Stephen King, which is a compliment to the author. I also would read an entire novel based on the story “It’s Against the Law to Feed the Ducks” as it features a 5 year old boy as the narrator, with an unknown apocalyptic event happening around him. There were some stories that I didn’t find as intriguing as the rest, and found myself skimming them. But overall I enjoyed the book as a whole. ( ) brookiexlicious | May 5, 2021 | geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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A chilling collection of psychological suspense and literary horror from the multiple award-winning author of the national bestseller The Cabin at the End of the World and A Head Full of Ghosts. A masterful anthology featuring nineteen pieces of short fiction, The Growing Things is an exciting glimpse into Paul Tremblay's fantastically fertile imagination. In "The Teacher," a Bram Stoker Award nominee for best short story, a student is forced to watch a disturbing video that will haunt and torment her and her classmates' lives. Four men rob a pawnshop at gunpoint only to vanish, one-by-one, as they speed away from the crime scene in "The Getaway." In "Swim Wants to Know If It's as Bad as Swim Thinks," a meth addict kidnaps her daughter from her estranged mother as their town is terrorized by a giant monster . . . or not. Joining these haunting works are stories linked to Tremblay's previous novels. The tour de force metafictional novella "Notes from the Dog Walkers" deconstructs horror and publishing, possibly bringing in a character from A Head Full of Ghosts, all while serving as a prequel to Disappearance at Devil's Rock. "The Thirteenth Temple" follows another character from A Head Full of Ghosts-Merry, who has published a tell-all memoir written years after the events of the novel. And the title story, "Growing Things," a shivery tale loosely shared between the sisters in A Head Full of Ghosts, is told here in full. From global catastrophe to the demons inside our heads, Tremblay illuminates our primal fears and darkest dreams in startlingly original fiction that leaves us unmoored. As he lowers the sky and yanks the ground from beneath our feet, we are compelled to contemplate the darkness inside our own hearts and minds. 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: (3.46)
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