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Summary: An incredibly powerful novel
Review: I just finished reading and my throat is still tight and kind of choked up. You've never read a book like this. The suspense is mainly psychological but nevertheless it is hard to stop reading. It is frightening, heartbreaking, and yet beautiful.
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Summary: This One Gets under Your Skin
Review: If you read THE LOST BOYS looking for a generic terror-stalks-a-small-town novel with blood, gore and guts, you won't be happy. This is a domestic drama with some suspense and very subtle supernatural elements.I'd read Card's short story by the same name and it took me a while to get up the nerve to read this. There's a lot of suffering endured by the characters (comparison to the Book of Job in the Old Testament would not be too far off track) but there's so much beauty here. I buy horror novels at the used book store and usually read them with the speed of summer lightning. I'll look under a bed and find a book that I know I read several years ago but have completely forgotten, and read it a second time: how's that for getting your money's worth! But I don't think I'll ever, ever forget THE LOST BOYS. Go back and read PETER PAN. Not the Disney version, the real one by James M. Barrie. You'll see why the title of this is so appropriate. Card's characters are Mormons, and I guess that Card is, too. The Mormon Church plays a big part in the story. But Card never tries to convert anyone to the cause, it's just a part of the characterization. Enjoy.
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Summary: It'll keep you wondering.
Review: The plot is rather simple in this story. It's about a family that go through the harsh pains of reality. You are put into the story, like many of Card's stories, but this one was wrote in a rather ingenious manner. Instead of writing this novel to surprise you after every page, Card simply follows the life of a very religious family. They go through troubles, like any family does, they have their ups and they have their downs. You may be thinking right now, so what is so interesting about this book? Simple, this book is dedicated to the ending. You will get to know these characters so well, you will even notice when they act differently. In this story, you'll be pulled into this family, watching every thorough move they make. The ending of this book is so very mesmerizing, it makes it worth all of the pages you have to read to get there. If you are reading this review because you are deciding if you should purchase and read this book, I highly suggest upon it. If you have ever felt a power as strong as this book, then you must have been struck by lightning.
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Summary: Neither his best nor worst book
Review: Orson Scott Card is an excellent writer who lets his faith affect his writing in positive ways. This is not his best book (Xenocide) nor his worst book (Homecoming volume 2, so far, although I haven't read all his books). I really appreciated the insight into the lives of Mormons in the south, and the characters are very real and quite memorable. Unfortunately, the book just really kind of drags in the middle. I found the point at which other viewers said they "gasped" or "cried" to be rather predictable. I had figured out "who did it" rather early on, so the other revelations about other "suspicious" characters just seemed contrived to throw you off course. This book was much better for its characterizations, than for the story itself.
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Summary: Shocking, horrifying, unforgettable!
Review: I first read this book 10 years ago and have never forgotten it. It has stayed with me in a way that few stories ever have. As a transplant to Greensboro, NC (the true location of the fictional Steuben), I can say that his details are right on target. The story crept up on me. OSC put all the clues there but in such an offhand way that I wasn't consciously aware of them. At a certain point, I simply had to put the book down because I was crying too hard to keep reading. I can't be more specific without ruining the surprise for those who haven't read it yet. But this is the most horrifying, heartbreaking and hopeful book I've ever read.
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Summary: Not for the faint of heart.
Review: I'd like to preface by saying this is atypical of Orson Scott Card. It also deals with a family struggling with real life issues at the dawn of the computer age. Step Fletcher has just relocated his Latter Day Saint (Mormon) family to rural Steuben, NC to take a job at a programming company that doesn't think twice about lying, stealing and worse...much worse. Deanne Fletcher is a full time mom taking care of 3 kids under 8 and carrying the forth. At church they encounter the prototypical Sister know it all who claims to have visions from G-d about everyone else's family and a young man whose perception of reality is more in line with bugs bunny than the real world. At school steven is tormented by students and his teacher and receedes to playing with "imaginary". But the worst thing of all is the evil that is tearing at the fabric of the families stability. Boys are turning up missing and believed dead and all of them seem to be after Steven. Only in the end with patience does the plot resolve itself. A suspensful mastery of reality, theology and evil that pales his other work. Orson Scott Card departs from his typical sci-fi to give fans a real taste of what he is truly capable of. I bought the book for fifty cents at a beach side bookstore in hard back and after reading it i would have willingly paid retail.
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Summary: Too dark for a Card's book
Review: I read this book looking for the light-hearted prose of Orson Scott Card, like in "Songmaster" or "Ender's game", and it is not at all like those books. The story is too terrible, too dark. This book left me a sour-sweet feeling that I didn't like at all.
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Summary: Good Subplots
Review: First things first, if your expecting vintage Card here, you will be sorely disappointed. Ender's Game fans will probably feel quite a bit out of place. As I read this book I kept waiting for something "Cardish" to happen but nothing EVER did. That was my own mistake, but the truth is that the storey is pretty good and the subplots are quite enjoyable although I thought many of them were left hanging so as to wrap up the main plot which was frankly anti-climactic. Still the book is worth reading if nothing other then the various subplots. Just don't expect anything more then that and you won't be disappointed.
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Summary: Card is a wonderful spinner of yarns
Review: Card first entranced me with his tales at age eight, when I first read several of his short stories in Maps in a Mirror. I grew to be a loyal Card fan after reading Ender's Game and Songmaster. However, in seventh grade, I was unprepared to be thrust into a my own time period upon picking up this novel.
The Lost Boys, more than any of Card's previous novels, has hit truly home to me. This novel deals with very mature issues especially in regards to children, the two major being the molestation and murder of children (Don't worry, this is not graphic...Card lets your imagination conjure the images for you).
Strangely enough, it is not those themes that affected me most strongely. Two main events stick out in my mind.
1. The teacher who hated Stevie, and the students who tormented him. Every time I read or even think of these parts of the novel, it strikes a chord.
2. The loss of a child, and the way the family deals with it.
This story, while not having the gore and shocks of a conventional horror novel, is indeed one of the most horrific novels I have ever read.
While this book is not one of my favorites, I bestow a five star rating because it is not often that a book produces such intense emptions within me. Any book that can do that is worthy of five stars.
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Summary: *sigh
Review: I read Lost Boys while on my break from college. I had heard marvelous things about it, and being a big fan of Orson Scott Card, I had high expectations. I found that the book was about 300 pages too long with many useless details. In fact, there were entire chapters dedicated to these useless details. The plotline was dragged out so thinly that there were times when I would forget that there even was a plot. In fact, the tension didn't even begin to build up until the second to last chapter. I must say, I thought Enchantment to be a masterpiece while Lost Boys did not satisfy me.
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