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Summary: One of McCammon's best!
Review: A chilling story with a great plot.I think that the pumpkin man was pretty cool.I really like this book and would recomend any fans of mccammon's to read it.Definetly the scariest book by mccammon i've ever read.(I've read Boy's Life,Gone South,Usher's Passing,and Mine.)You should read this book unless you are scared of horror stories.An over-all great book!
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Summary: Not your typical McCammon book...
Review: but one of his best. Let me start by saying that R. C. McCammon is easily my favorte author. And this is his second best work (after "Swan Song"). Based off the E. A. Poe work "Fall of the House of Usher", "Usher's Passing" keeps the atmosphere as oppressive as possible. Considering the story line, this is the perfect feeling. This is the only McCammon novel that doesn't suffer his fatal flaw... Quick endings. This is not a good multiple read novel (once every several years is enough), due to its dark nature and disturbing images. But you certainly won't regret taking the time to read this one.
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Summary: Not for the casual read - but worth it!
Review: I have read everything published by McCammon and love every single story. He has redeemed horror fans by showing that horror fiction can be intelligent, as well. I discovered his talents through this book, Usher's Passing - An electrifying and hypnotic book, this book takes a legendary tale in a whole new direction. THIS IS NOT a book for the less-than-avid reader. It takes imagination and stamina to handle the content of this book. This is McCammon's finest effort to date, and a dang-scary read (keep a light on, I'm telling you!).
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Summary: The best I have ever read
Review: I read this book in 1994 almost 7 years ago, and though I am an avid reader I am still to read another book as intriguing and realistically horrific as this one. What makes this book so interesting and hard to forget is that it is so true to life. You can identify these characters in your society and what really scares the living daylights out of you is that they maybe from the Usher Clan. This is one book that you will not put down once you start reading and one book that you will want to read again and again. It is a book of family wealth, of greed, of inheritance, of destiny, of personal weaknesses etc. Basically it is a book with a realistic plot that has a horrible twist. This book is the work of a true genius and the experience gained in reading it cannot be compared to anything you have ever read before.
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Summary: Not a book for children. . .
Review: I read Usher's Passing a number of years ago, when I was in my early teens. At the time I found the book to be terrifying and even now, in my early 20's I am haunted by the image of the Pumpkin Man peering down from the dark at that little boy. I decided to read it again, just because it had never left my mind; I needed to find out if it was really as frightening as I remembered. It is. I have also read Swan Song and Boy's Life, and can easily say that R. McCammon is my favorite author and that Usher's Passing is the scariest book I have ever read.
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Summary: Very intersting book.
Review: I really enjoyed reading this book. I thought it was a very good adaptation of the House of Usher story.
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Summary: This book irritated me.
Review: It's unbelievability irritated me. No, I'm not talking about the supernatural elements, of course you expect those, this is a gothic horror novel. What irritated me is the unbelievability of one of the story's main focuses: that the Ushers must keep their doings and what's going on in their estate a secret because otherwise the media will engage in a, I quote from the book "feeding frenzy." One character says that in the fight for who will inherit the family business, the sister will get it but the older brother will destroy her by pedalling her stories of drug abuse to the tabloids.Hello? Am I the only one with any sense here? The media is not going to care one bit about the head of a munitions-making family dying, or the daughter of the owner of the weapons maker using drugs in the past. How often do you see tabloids print things like that? They talk about reporters flooding the estate, what a joke. Is there some big public interest in who is going to inherit a weapons making business? No. It makes no sense to pretend like the media is going to care that much. This problem erupts again when the middle child, the younger son, wants to make a fortune by writing a book about the dirty secrets of his family. He acts like it will make him a billionaire. Uh, yeah. Nothing gets on the best seller faster than a tell-all book of a family who owns a weapons development company. Give me a break, that's weak. After all that, I found Pumpkin Man very believable in relation.
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Summary: Gothic, Disturbing, Brilliant
Review: McCammon takes on Poe's "Fall of the House of Usher" and spins a new story from where it all left off. Images of Usher history leading towards the present and intermingled with present-day suspense add a disturbingly quiet element to things. Missing children, a legacy of destruction, a house beyond understanding -- Rix Usher's life, his destiny, all of it, is tied in with the dark secrets of his family. Another reviewer said it was not the kind of book to read again and again; wait a few years, but I disagree. This is the kind of book that demands reading again and again, for there's something new to find with every read. It's not a lightweight read -- you MUST think about it, process it. It is by far the most frightening book I've ever read in terms of its implications for the characters -- and ourselves.
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Summary: Great book...worth reading
Review: Robert R. McCammon is one of my favorite authors and Usher's Passing kept me up all night reading. I could not put this book down. The characters are interesting, the plot is excellent, and next to Swan's Song, this is one of my favorites of his. You'll never guess the ending! :)
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Summary: Creepy
Review: This is a cool update to the classic Poe story. It follows the continuing story of the Usher clan in the modern day. There is great dark atmosphere in the huge Lodge and the Mansion the is a true twist at the end that will take you by surprise!
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