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Summary: A must avoid if you are more than 12 yrs old...
Review: I've just put the book down. I'm dumbfounded. The target audience of this book is surely 12 year olds. Anyone over that age, or who has read any decent suspense literature (King, Barker, Koontz -- if you don't know who they are, you'll probably like this book.), is going to be bored out of their minds. The plot is predictable, and the characters one-dimensional.A Summary of my opinion of the book: If it was a best seller, the books I publish in the future will be on the NY Times Best Seller list for eternity!
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Summary: A Book You Won't Be Able To Put Down Until After You're Done
Review: John Saul is an amazing author and Comes The Blind Fury is just another one of his breakthrough novels. This is an awesome book with strange twists and a mind-boggling plot. The book isn't necessarily beyond adult level vocabulary-wise, making it an even better book. It's not necessarily going to make you not want to put the book down if it's got words in it you'll only find in dictionaries better than Webster. I admit I'm one of many who gets so into a book that I'm still thinking about it days to weeks after I've finished it, thinking something's still gonna happen even though the book is finished! If you read "Comes The Blind Fury", you WON'T be disappointed.
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Summary: good beginning, but.....
Review: lost it after that. The book started out with a good story line but in the middle and end it just left me irritated and disapointed. DID Cal ever figure out how much he had hurt Michelle with his behavior? Did he ever fugure out that she died thinking he did not love her? Cal was very unlikeable to me and seems to have gotten off too easy. If he was so afraid of kids then why was he not afraid of his newborn daughter? Did Jeffs mother ever blame the family for her sons death? Perhaps I am putting more into the book than it deserves but I do not like to be left with unanswered questions and I would have preffered to hear more about the blind girls life.
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Summary: It was a divine book!
Review: This book about an ancient hate in a modern day setting was the BOMB!!!!I totally loved it!It will always be my favorite books.I've read all of John Saul's books and that is the best one of tham all.
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Summary: Off the mark
Review: This book has lots of spooky elements - a ghost, an indestructible doll, an old man with family secrets, automatic drawing, a mysterious stain that won't go away. Any of these ingredients might be a good core for a thriller, but they don't come together in any meaningful way. Throw in a well-adjusted child turned instantly neurotic, a maladjusted dad, whose fragile psyche could never have survived medical school, and an ineffectual mother and you've got motives as murky as the fog that heralds the ghost's arrival. The plot revolves around "little children" who - at 12 - inexplicably speak and act like eight-year-olds. There isn't enough reality here to make the supernatural aspects effective.
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Summary: Guarantee to Chill You in the Death Valley in August
Review: This has to be one of the most subtly, relentlessly, deliciously, and persistently scary book you'll ever read. I've read it over fifteen years ago, but I still remember feeling my scalp tingling, jumpling, sweating, and otherwise behaving erratically while I was reading it in a broad daylight. Highly recommended.
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Summary: One of Saul's Best
Review: This is by far one of Saul's best books. Scary and thrilling, this book is what a horror novel should be. Saul is a hit or miss author, but this is one of his earliest and best works. It is a great place for a reader new to Saul to start. You will not be disappointed.
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Summary: One of Saul's Best
Review: This is by far one of Saul's best books. Scary and thrilling, this book is what a horror novel should be. Saul is a hit or miss author, but this is one of his earliest and best works. It is a great place for a reader new to Saul to start. You will not be disappointed.
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Summary: Suspenseful and creepy but ultimately unsatisfying...
Review: This is my third or fourth Saul novel and again I find myself a little disappointed. I like his writing style. He writes in a clear, compelling way and his work is really suspenseful and engaging. (You have to give the guy that. He can write a page-turner.) It's just that I never feel very satisfied when I finish one of his books. For me, the horror elements seem too watered down and ambiguous. And often times, they seem to conclude in a Scooby Doo kind of way. (A quick, pat explanation with the suggestion perhaps nothing supernatural ever occured.)COMES THE BLIND FURY has a pretty creepy premise and I had high hopes for it: a young blind girl in the 1800's is accidentally killed when a group of cruel children tease her and she falls to her death from a cliff. More than a century later, a family moves into The House and their adopted daughter, Michelle, begins to have visions of the blind girl, Amanda. Over time, Michelle grows closer to what her parents think is an imaginary friend, but what Michelle considers a real person that appears to her out of darkness and fog. Soon, the lives of Michelle and Amanda start to mirror each other when Michelle is injured and becomes a cripple. Children begin to tease her and she finds herself turning to Amanda as her only friend. But Amanda wants revenge for the laughter she heard as she fell to her death that day. And using Michelle "for her eyes", she starts to kill. (Or does she? Perhaps Michelle is simply disturbed. It's suggested as a possibility.) As children die in mysterious accidents, the family begins to unravel, and the town turns against them... I actually enjoyed this book more than Saul's other novels I've tried, but to me his work is kind of like a made-for-tv movie; sort of cheezy, melodramatic, and without any real graphic horror. I'm giving it 3.5 stars because it was definitely a page turner and had a creepy premise, but I don't know if I'll try any more of his work. Maybe my expectations as a horror fan are just too high (or jaded), but Saul doesn't deliver for me.
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Summary: Guaranteed to Scare You Silly.
Review: This is the best John Saul book that I have ever read. This book will make it hard to go to sleep with the lights off. I recommend this book if you want to be scared!
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