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Summary: a lousy book
Review: This book was so bad that I was unable to finish it. The writer may have written many fine novels for all I know of him but, unfortunately, this was not one of them.
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Summary: Steer clear of this town
Review: Like other reviewers this was my first Bentley Little novel and i have to say i gave up at page 100. Why ? Because the story is not only a 'read it all before story' but it is also badly written with a number of small errors . Mr litle wanted to create a 'Spooky' atmosphere from literally nothing on a lot of the pages and it doesnt work . There has to be depth or some inter-connection in the writing. All the characters get goosebumps at the drop of a hat. They all seem paranoid about other people and places and sit around the breakfast table talking about ghosts. !'m sure alot of people do that!!?The highlight (lowlight) on page 37 was when the kid Adam sees a bone through a window and recorgnises it instantly as a 'femur from a human child'. The kid is eleven years old !!!!Oh thats ok Bentley informs us he learned about all the bones in a human body at school last year. WHAT ???. The kid then sees a shadow on a wall of a large 'Russian man'. How the hell does he know the man is Russian. I generally found the witing amateurish and given this is his 10th book thats a surprise. I may try him again but it wont be for a while and then only if i can get one of his books cheap from a second bookstore. Thats all he deserves from me.
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Summary: Okay.....
Review: This was the second Bentley Little book I read. It was all right but it was also pretty stinky at the same time. This might have something to do with te fact that I spent more than a month reading this, but still, I think it was because it wasn't that great a book. I read most of THE REVELATION (I didn't read the whole thing because I was side tracked around the summertime and never got around to finisheing it) and was slighly let down. Little never got down to the gritty guts and gore. THE TOWN on the other hand handled its business quite smoothly along these lines. Problems: 1) The book, while having many supernatuaral occurances, didn't really have anythinkg happening until about the last eighty pages. 2) Little passed off some normal mischievious activities to be weird. 3) Mr. Little made the adolensence confusion that one of his charecters was caught up in seem "abnormal" (you as the reader can decide what is and what isn't normal; I'm not sure how people see it) 4) The ending was kind of weak. 5) The plot, as most horror plots, was clich`ed (it was about an evil power taking over a town.) 6) The characters were just that: characters. You could never really care for the people he was writing about, but there is much room for improvement in that respect. What I linked: 1) Well, I didn't really like that much about this book, but I thought it had a few nice, shocking scenes towards the end. 2) There were some weird things that happened, but they just weren't creepy. Not very horrifying and very clich`ed. Nice entertainment though and a pretty quick read too, but if a you want a good book a with a tall share of grisly stuff, pick up DESPERATION by Stephen King.
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Summary: First Time Little Reader
Review: I've not read any of his other books but I'm hoping the next one will be better. I'm not saying the book wasn't good at all,just that I found some of it silly. That little troll didn't help it much either. I was actually happy when the story had ended. I like to be scared out of my wits & this story just didn't do the trick. I am starting on "Revelation" tonight, & I hope it keeps me alot more interested. I will say that eventually, I believe that Mr. Little will actually become a good writer. He has just begun & for a new writer, he shows potential. But hey, I'm not a writer & don't even know if I could write a book if I wanted to so maybe I am being a little too judgemental, or maybe I have read just too many Stephen King Books. I think that I'm spoiled to reading his stories.
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Summary: I just didn't like the characters
Review: I read the Store and the Revelation by Mr. Little and was very impressed by both of these books. I just finished the Town and was not as impressed. I liked the story and the setting but I did not like any of the main characters with the exception of Adam. I think that both Gregory and Julia were pretentious snobs. I think that Sasha was a mad-at-the-world-for-no-reason brat and Gregory's mother was an overly superstitious(to the point of irritating) person. If the characters had been more likeable I think the Town is worth 5 stars.
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Summary: The Shining was better!
Review: The book was dry, and the ending was too quick. It was predictable, and too similar with The Shining. I'm a Bentley Little fan, but was rather let down with this book.
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Summary: Good Read
Review: I just got done reading this last night and I really liked it. It didn't scare the pants off of me but it was good none the less. I'd recommend this book to my friends/family.
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Summary: Not the Best Little...but still good Little!
Review: GUESTS is a haunted house story, a "possessed" story and also a story about religious conviction or lack thereof. Unfortunately, it is also a novel that does not combine these elements into a believable narrative. GUESTS opens with Gregory winning the California lottery, $40,000 a year for 20 years. And this convinces both Greg and his wife Julia to quit their jobs and move as soon as possible.. And that's the first problem. I could see one person quitting their job, not both, but that's just my opinion. On we go to follow this family moving to Arizona, a small town called McGuane..."a haunted place" as one character sums up the town. This is a town that Greg grew up in and has a sordid history of religious intolerance. Greg's family is of Russian molokan descent, a culture that is richly described in this book, being part of Little's ancestry. The town has culture lines firmly drawn and 25 years has not changed that aspect. All that's needed is for some conflict to occur, and the town will pick its favorites. As soon as Greg's family moves into a house where brutal infanticide occurred a while back, strange murders start to happen to the people of McGuane...and you know who gets blamed. Next problem is the believability of the real reason for these murders...it is a very thin thread to tie this book's plot around and, for me, it didn't do so convincingly. Little's prose is crackling with life and his scenes are described vividly, but it's just that I wasn't buying what Little was selling in this novel. For those looking for the traditional Little gore factor, I must inform you that, except for a few early and ending deaths, this is a strongly character-driven piece. It's not that I hated the book, far from it. But being one of his biggest fans, I know he can and has come up with better plots...this just isn't one of them. Recommended for Little fans.
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Summary: A tense, highly recommended horror thriller.
Review: Gregory brings his family to a quiet Arizona town of his youth and immediately becomes embroiled in battling spirits who become more and more vengeful. Is his family unleashing them; or were they just sleeping, awaiting his return? A bloodbath ensues in The Town, a tense horror thriller.
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Summary: The Next Big King?
Review: So why hasn't Bentley Little become a massive star such as King, Koontz, or at least attained the status of several better selling but severely less talented writers? Who knows? Little has done for Arizona what King has done for Maine in a few of his books & has succeeded the difficult task of bringing the ordinary lives we live into a world severely skewered by horror in a way you don't realize until you are sucked in the book in the wee hours of the night. This book brings old world superstition to Arizona & family hoping to return to down home living after winning the lottery. But did they ask along the evil the mother in law speaks of? NEVER TRUST THE MOTHER IN LAW! When she's not the most devious force in a novel, watch out!
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