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Summary: Shocking!
Review: This book I will compare with The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. This book was very shocking. If you love gore, graphic sex, and very intense violence. Read this book.
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Summary: Absolutely brilliant !
Review: This is a really outstanding book - once you start it you cannot stop until you finish it. This is horror at its finest. Highly recommended !!!
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Summary: Horror Fiction's Howard Stern
Review: This one was truly, truly horrible, even for Little. At first, I thought it was going to be pretty good. He's using his "nightmare version of everyday institutions" mode of storytelling here (i.e., the mailman from hell, the franchise store from hell). This one's the college campus from hell. It does resemble The Store very closely, but somehow, in the end, rates far below that more recent book.Little is, like my title says, horror's version of Howard Stern. He's a shock jock with nothing really to say. He writes shocking scenes pretty well too, usually involving sex, but here the shocking sex/violence scenes are not couched in any kind of interesting, or even half-baked, story. The result is that you feel kind of embarrassed for Little. Never mind people who regularly read horror, like me, but you picture his aunt or someone picking up this book and having a heart attack. Gross is good if there's a story, but this is like something a teenager might write. Cardboard characters, yes (this is normal for Little)-- but the story and dialogue are just soooo bad. Read The Ignored or The Store or The Mailman if you've never read Little. These, if not great, are good. And the writing in University was worse than usual too. Little has never written good prose but here it is atrocious. He loves to say one thing three or four times. Instead of writing "He wanted to mention it, but instead..." he wrote, on page 37, "He wanted to mention it, wanted to bring it up, wanted to talk about it, but instead..." He does this every other page, and it slowly but surely drives you insane. He also started off one sentence with "Immediately, instantly, he...." YES! Immediately and instantly are the same thing! Pick one and go with it. One time I wrote in one of my own stories: "Without thinking, entirely on impulse, he..." and the editor of the rinky-dink small-press magazine I submitted that story to made it a point to tell me impulsively and without thinking are the same thing. Why don't Little's PROFESSIONAL editors tell him the same thing? This is not some tiny magazine a hundred people will see. It's a mass-market paperback. Another example that almost made me tear the book in two (seriously, my hands impulsively, without thinking, grabbed both sides of the book and actually started tearing before I could control them): (page 297) "This wasn't his forte'. This wasn't his bag. This wasn't his cup of tea." I could quote about 50 of these "paddings." And that's what they seem to be. It's not as if he had a short book that needed lengthening. One last complaint, while I'm still clinging to my sanity: He gave away the ending about a quarter of the way through it, maybe a third. One of the characters mentioned a way to kill the evil university, and after thinking about it for another 2 or 3 hundred pages, this is what they did. No surprises, only relief that the book was over. There...this has been my review, my opinion, my thoughts, my feelings, my (quick, get me thesaurus, I must prolong this sentence for at least another minute!)
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Summary: School is Scary
Review: University has got to be one of Little's best books. Taking the evil entity tale to a new level. If you're a fan of creepy buildings, grotesque monstrosities, or just plain sicko writing this is most assuredly a story for you. Any book where people are influenced by their surroundings to the point of madness has got my attention, and perhaps madness is too tame a word here. If you've ever felt school was an oppressive institution and needed proof, look no further. Bentley Little is probably the most intense horror you're going to get from a large publisher and if you crave the deranged, the dreary, or the delightfully macabre seeking this author out would be a wise pursuit.
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Summary: For those of u that have read Laymon, WELCOME to Little's...
Review: world. Laymon and Little are very similar in their ability to write straight forward, clear, concise prose. They both are masters at shocking and splatterpunk!!!! Little writes about sociological issues (I mean come on, The Store, The Association, The Ignored) and he throws in a lot of sex and violence while he's at it. Little is often criticized for far-out concepts, but come on folks, WHY DE WE READ HORROR? We read horror like women use calgon. Remember the commercial? Cal-gon take me away!!!! For a little while, we want to forget about the real world and it's like roller-coasters:WE WANT TO BE SCARED!!!! This plot is centered around (GRANTED a far-out premise) a haunted or evil university where violence and racism start to escalate. This is shear putty in Little's hands as he takes the story and runs with it. All kinds of strange things happen and he shows why he has captured the throne as master of horror now that KING has announced his retirement. Little continues his legacy. Once again, if u like Laymon, Ray Garton, or Edward Lee, welcome to Little's world It's great to be a Little-ite.
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Summary: I've read King, Rice, Barker, Koontz,etc. Nothing like this!
Review: You're not going to find incredible writing but who in hell cares. You'll be left shaking you're head because it's so indescribably unparalleled. You have to read it just on principle
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