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Summary: A quick and flat read from an a normally outstanding author
Review: This book was a very shallow and fast read that draws the reader in but then remains flat throughout the book. The characters move in and out of the story rapidly. Card creates a few contrived emotional scenes in an attempt to get the reader to bond with a character, and then promptly drops the character, never to be heard from again. Card writes wonderfully, so the story does entertain. Unfortunately, many pieces are missing. The ending comes abruptly. Card fans should enjoy the quick couple of hours that it will take to read this one on the plane, but don't expect the depth of previous works.
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Summary: Great!
Review: I loved this book & didn't want it to end. I loved the characters & the story--I was able to believe it all!
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Summary: A second rate story from a first rate author
Review: I have loved almost everything that OS Card has written. His combining of sympathetic characters with solid speculative fiction sets him apart from the rest of the genre. I don't know what happened with "Homebody". It is a pedestrian ghost story that could have been penned by any number of grocery store authors. Read "Ender's Game" again rather than waste your time with this novel.
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Summary: My first and last Orson Scott Card!!
Review: Orson Scott Card is my husband's favorite author but sci-fi is not my favorite genre. So when I saw this book I decided to give it a try. Let me sum it up, this book is stupid. I love mysteries but this one just didn't make sense, and the characters were unlikeable and poorly devloped. My husband wants me to give this guy another shot, I don't think so!!
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Summary: Disappointing. Expected a scary tale, but got bad romance.
Review: Card can write horror, but he's out of his depths when he tries to write romance. I neither identified nor sympathized with any character and I found the female character's repetitive "A man like him..." thoughts lazy stereotypical mimicry. The book comes alive with the appearance of two whacky elderly female neighbors who are simultaneously comforting with their old-fashioned cooking and yet darkly sinister. Unfortunately too much time is wasted reviewing the hero's wounds, and the book reeks of sentamentality.
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Summary: Card's best non sci-fi yet!
Review: This is a terrific book! I read it from start to finish in one reading and I couldn't fall asleep when I finally did finish it because of the heart-stopping conclusion. Scott has some very interesting and thoughtful insights into how the atmosphere and spirit of a home are created. I have to agree with the review that said that it took them back to the days of reading on top of the barn. For me it was reading in bed with my flashlight because it was too good to put down at 1 in the morning!
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Summary: Real characters+intelligent dialogue=Enjoyable reading!
Review: Orson Scott Card's "Homebody" is an engaging tale about a haunted house. The characters that we're introduced to are intelligent and extremely well developed. I found myself thoroughly engrossed in the plot, and interested in their welfare and in their fates. Don Lark is a man with his own haunted past. He makes his living buying old "dead" houses, and living in them while he renovates them. When he finds another home in need of renovation, he buys it, moves in, and begins work on it. As the days pass, he finds a cast of characters, each with their own hidden secrets and depressing pasts. Together, through the course of the novel, they work together to discover the secrets the old house holds, and to come to terms with their own problems and limitations. Orson Scott Card is very successful in creating a story in which it's all too easy to become engrossed with. If you liked movies such as "Poltergeist," or "Amityville Horror" you'll enjoy Homebody all that much more. Don't be fooled into thinking that "Homebody" is just another 'haunted house' tale. You'll be pleasantly surprised.
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Summary: Old house, great cover, fun read.
Review: This book is fun, a delightful premise with wonderful little asides here and there. I loved the first part of the book more than the second part, but still greatly worthwhile.
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Summary: What's happened to Card?
Review: In earlier times Card wrote some of the most moving, fascinating, and majestic of all Sci-Fi fantasy. My personal favorites are Wyrms, Treason, Speaker for the Dead, and Red Prophet. Homebody is the latest product of Card's continuing effort to legitimize his creative vision (and produce bestsellers?). It is a thoroughly readable book with a decent plot and characters, but it is devoid of the vibrantly creative and outre imagination that made his earlier work so wonderful. Now all we have is a Mormonized Stephen King. Oh, well...
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Summary: Warning! Once you start you can't stop.
Review: I'm fascinated by old houses, always have been. My favorite ghost movies are the Uninvited and The Changeling and few others. I was bored, looking for a book or a movie with a character I could really care about, not one of those plastic, macho, one-dimensional snearing men with a sexual history that'd scare the hell out of any health care professional. Wow, I couldn't believe my luck. This book took me back to those days when I was a young girl, reading on top of our horse barn, so engrossed in my book the outside world ceased to exist. His main character is a REAL man! The story was original, fascinating, INTERESTING! This was my first Orson Scott Book, but it won't be my last.
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