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Summary: One of the Best
Review: As a father, who just moved his family to take a new job in the game programming industry, I related way too much with the main character of this book. The ending had me in deep contemplation for 2 days after finishing this book. This goes on my list of all time best novels ever. The ending had me up all night to finish and then when I realized the final plot twist I just sat stunned at 4am wishing that I had someone to share it with.
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Summary: Frighteningly good
Review: This is probably my second favorite book of Orson Scott Card, the first one being Ender's Game. It starts out so peacefully, so normally. But as it follows a story of the parents struggling to keep their children safe from all imaginable disasters, the reader grows increasingly afraid. Because each new page brings some new danger.Card is incomparable while writing children, and the character of Stevie is one of his crowning achievements - he makes us fall in love with the boy and then proceeds to give us gut-wrenching fears over what will happen to him. If his goal is to break the heart of every reader, he certainly succeeds. It's obvious that "Lost Boys" is very personal to Card, who published it first as a short story. Then, it was about his own family, his own work, his own children. And that same sense of urgency, of high stakes and everything on the line permeates the longer version of the story. Not to mention that anyone who loves a good mystery or a ghost story will be more than satisfied upon reading this novel. A classic.
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Summary: A Wonderful Book
Review: I was probably about twelve years old when I found this book at a beach house where we were staying. It fascinated me and I was soon addicted to reading it. Then a hurricane threatened the shore and we had to leave. My grandmother allowed me to take the book so that I could finish it. That was many years ago, but the book and its story is still fresh in my mind. In fact, I still vividly remember the line "I showed them how" and it still brings tears to my eyes. This book is disturbing without being overly strange and scary without being mundane. Orson Scott Card writes incredibly well.
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Summary: A page turner
Review: I couldn't put the book down! O.C. Card has the ability to keep you absorbed even during the mundane everday-life sort of things that make the charactors believable. The story keeps you on edge while spoon feeding you small clues at a time. What is happening to the young boys in this small town? ... read it and find out! The wonderful way the Dad solves his boys' school problem is priceless! Card blends warmth with tension so well, it is easy to feel as though you stepped into the twilight zone!
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Summary: I liked it!
Review: This is a good read. I was pulled in from the beginning and held captivated through every chapter until the thrilling conclusion which leaves you thinking about the entire book for days.
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Summary: Stunning
Review: I could hardly put this book down. I really got into the family and found the whole description of their lives gripping. The ending just blew me away. I did not expect it to turn out the way it did. I highly recommend this book
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Summary: Amazing!
Review: I read this a long time ago, when I was maybe eleven years old... I remember the night I finished it... I had to keep putting the book down and sobbing... I remembered the book, and I read it again this summer (I'm 15, now)... yes, it's long, and at some points, it seems pointless. But when you reach the end, you realize that all the parts of the book were necessary, to get you to love Stevie and all the other characters as much as I did. What an amazing book.
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Summary: Chilling, a very realistic vision, a page-turner!
Review: I am fascinated by Card's ability to keep me flipping pages well into the night. As a Mormon, I felt that he painted a very realistic, warts-and-all picture of life in a Mormon family. It turned out to be an ideal backdrop for this heart-rending story of a young boy under horrible stress. I don't normally read this type of novel, but rather followed the author from other genres- was truly satisfied with the result. Bravo! Highly recommended.
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Summary: Haunting
Review: I never expected to find one of my favorite authors writing a horror-type novel but was pleasantly surprised by the result. Card has a way of drawing you into his characters. Not being familiar with the Mormon faith, I enjoyed the peek into their way of life that Card provided. (Despite one of the earlier reviews, the strong faith of the main characters was very important to the story and character development.) I have to confess that the revelation at the climax of the story made me actually gasp with surprise. Call me naive but I didn't see it coming. It also left me in tears. Though I never felt the chill of horror while reading this story (no book seems capable of doing that for me), I was haunted by it. Card has an interesting gift of blending sadness and hope in the same story and Lost Boys is no exception.
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Summary: A Poignant Thriller
Review: This book has a different feel that Card's other novels. The setting is extraordinarily believable and in some ways even familiar. The reader experiences the tension between the good intentions of loving parents and the terrible danger which some children face even in homes where love should protect them. It is not a stock genre novel. It is done differently and well. I appreciated learning something of what it is like to be LDS--a bit of a mind-expanding experience in itself. There was something about this book that has caused it to linger on my mind long after I finished reading it. I would recommend it wholeheartedly.
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