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Summary: Beautiful, Sad, Terrifying!
Review: "Manhattan Ghost Story" is magnificent. With a wonderfully lyrical voice, Abner Cray (the main character) leads the reader into a dark, surreal, lonely world where the past is present and love never ends. I couldn't bear to put it down, and I absolutely hated to see it end. So I read it again. Though Disney/Touchstone is still going through the rigamarole of getting this made into a film, and I'd enjoy seeing it come to life, I can't imagine how they'll be able to do the book justice. The writing is superb, the story heartbreaking, and the author's message will surely haunt you long after the last word is read.
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Summary: Read at your own peril.
Review: "Manhattan Ghost Story" is magnificent. With a wonderfully lyrical voice, Abner Cray (the main character) leads the reader into a dark, surreal, lonely world where the past is present and love never ends. I couldn't bear to put it down, and I absolutely hated to see it end. So I read it again. Though Disney/Touchstone is still going through the rigamarole of getting this made into a film, and I'd enjoy seeing it come to life, I can't imagine how they'll be able to do the book justice. The writing is superb, the story heartbreaking, and the author's message will surely haunt you long after the last word is read.
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Summary: Beautiful, Sad, Terrifying!
Review: "Manhattan Ghost Story" is magnificent. With a wonderfully lyrical voice, Abner Cray (the main character) leads the reader into a dark, surreal, lonely world where the past is present and love never ends. I couldn't bear to put it down, and I absolutely hated to see it end. So I read it again. Though Disney/Touchstone is still going through the rigamarole of getting this made into a film, and I'd enjoy seeing it come to life, I can't imagine how they'll be able to do the book justice. The writing is superb, the story heartbreaking, and the author's message will surely haunt you long after the last word is read.
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Summary: Read at your own peril.
Review: About as interesting as drying paint; flows with the rapidity of Molasses in January; has an understanding of humans and their emotions like that of a five year old.T.M. Wright has a big mouth (he's been talking about this book and its movie adaptation for years) but very little to back it up with this lame, boring, empty novel that has nowhere to go and takes its time getting there.
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Summary: A unique horror story
Review: I agree with the reviewer who feels Wright should be up there with Stephen King and other horror writers. I picked up this book at a used book store, and liked it so much I have now purchased used editions of all the other books of his I can get my hands on. I found this novel compelling and written in a unique style. Try it, horror fans!
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Summary: Slow from the start - and it stays that way.
Review: I found A MANHATTAN GHOST STORY boring. The first ten pages were pretty good, but after a while the story turned slow and pretty passive. I did't like this at all. It so sad, because the author could've done something brillant with this. I finished reading it with a sigh and that was it.
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Summary: Well-written, but loses it at the end
Review: I very much enjoyed "A Manhattan Ghost Story" from the very first page. It was around page 300 that it began to lose me. The story focuses on Abner Cray, a photographer that comes to New York City to work on a book and winds up falling in love with a woman he meets in the apartment he is subletting from a friend. As he wanders the city he finds unusual things from out of a nightmare, and begins to learn that his new love may not be what he thinks. Wright has a wonderful, engaging style of writing, the sort of style that reads quickly and keeps you turning the page to see what happens next. The problem is that you still feel that way after the last page. There's no sense of conclusion to the book. You don't get a feeling of resolution for Abner, you only get a hint of resolution for Art, and subplots about the deaths of his parents, estrangement from his family and a superfluous subplot about an incestuous relationship with his cousin never go anywhere at all. At the ending you get a feeling that the writer intended the book to have an unresolved feeling, implying that's how life (and death) is, but instead I was just left unsatisfied. Wright's style is good enough to make me interested in reading some of his other works (this is the first book of his I've read), but if the second one doesn't give me a more fulfilling read than this, there probably won't be a third.
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Summary: Well-written, but loses it at the end
Review: I very much enjoyed "A Manhattan Ghost Story" from the very first page. It was around page 300 that it began to lose me. The story focuses on Abner Cray, a photographer that comes to New York City to work on a book and winds up falling in love with a woman he meets in the apartment he is subletting from a friend. As he wanders the city he finds unusual things from out of a nightmare, and begins to learn that his new love may not be what he thinks. Wright has a wonderful, engaging style of writing, the sort of style that reads quickly and keeps you turning the page to see what happens next. The problem is that you still feel that way after the last page. There's no sense of conclusion to the book. You don't get a feeling of resolution for Abner, you only get a hint of resolution for Art, and subplots about the deaths of his parents, estrangement from his family and a superfluous subplot about an incestuous relationship with his cousin never go anywhere at all. At the ending you get a feeling that the writer intended the book to have an unresolved feeling, implying that's how life (and death) is, but instead I was just left unsatisfied. Wright's style is good enough to make me interested in reading some of his other works (this is the first book of his I've read), but if the second one doesn't give me a more fulfilling read than this, there probably won't be a third.
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Summary: Damn Good Book
Review: I'd simply like to say that Wright does for the ghost story what no one else does quite as well--brings it uniqueness and personality and atmosphere. [...]
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Summary: I hope this book isn't defining of T.M. Wright's work.
Review: Intriging at first, this one leaves the reader wondering where the story is going and disappointed when it is realized that it dosen't go anywhere. The dialog between the characters is lame and unimaginable at best. The world created by Wright is interesting but he seemed not to know what to do with it. I'd pass on this one.
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