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Summary: A Nice Twist to a Fable Story
Review: I'm not sure what I was expecting when I bought this book. Perhaps more evil, or something a little more shocking. Don't get me wrong, I enjoyed the read but somehow I didn't feel any terror by no means.
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Summary: Mother of boys take notice!
Review: I'm the mother of three boys so I perfectly understood Joyce's coming of age story. This is one of the most original plots I have read in a long time. Dark, fascinating, and really funny at times, Joyce writes with understanding and care. Fast read, suspenseful, and good all around fun. It will keep you guessing till the end. Recommended to mothers of all boys!
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Summary: This got me hooked on Graham Joyce
Review: If you like horror/sci-fi, you'll love Graham Joyce. This was the second of his books that I read and most definitely my favourite. This book was subtly scary, with loads of underlying, and slightly disturbing issues and it kept me gripped. I then went on to search the globe for more of his titles, and they all offer a completely different setting, but still maintain his high standard of 'fear factor' without ever going over the top. You must give it a go.
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Summary: A vivid and moving tale of three boys growing up.
Review: It's a vivid, moving account of three boys growing up in the English Midlands in the 1960s. One of the boys can see the Tooth Fairy, who turns out to be a nasty, manipulative creature. It's an imaginative, intelligent book, with sensitively drawn characters, humor and darkness, and a compelling plot that pulls the reader along. Admiitedly, I could be said to have a biased viewpoint: I'm Graham's US editor. But I'm really excited by the upcoming publication of this book, and I want to share it with as many readers as possible.
"An unforgettable story set in the strange and foreign land that is your own childhood--that place where splendor and horror, memory and fantasy, collide.... A magnificent achievement." --Karen Joy Fowler
"Brilliant and unclassifiable, The Tooth Fairy is by turns tender, nightmarish, and hilarious, with hard-won wisdom and a rare sense of time and place, of lives truly lived." --Jonathan Lethem
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Summary: WoW
Review: Just now I finished reading this book. I feel as if I have been given a glimpse into magic, joy, fear, and everything else that haunts adolesence. A truely beutifull, compelling novel. (OK, no building crashing, fighting blow out in the finale for the reveiwer before). but an end that leaves the reader oddly peacefull. Do not, under any circumstance, allow this book to slip through your fingers.
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Summary: Simply a Pleasure to Read
Review: Previous to the Tooth Fairy, I only knew Graham's work through his short stories. Recently, I decided it was time to delve into one of his novels, and though they all looked interesting, this one seemed the most like what I was in the mood for at the time. I am a jaded reader, and the book captivated me from the first chapter. Nothing as simple as a horror novel here - this is a celebration of life that is at times hysterical, at times sad without ever quite reaching tragic, at times too painfully true to be funny, at other times absurd, nostaglic, bold, loving... I feel like he took me through my own childhood, without delving into any of the cliches that you'd expect on such a journey. It's been a long time since I read a book that made me genuinely sad when the ride was over. Simply put, I loved every minute of it.
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Summary: The Whole "Tooth" and Nothing But the "Tooth"
Review: The Tooth Fairy here is some sort of twisted, foul-mouthed sprite who is very upset at having been seen by a little boy, Sam, and threatens that they're both in "big f---ing trouble." But after the Fairy breathes something noxious in Sam's face and the next day his mom notices he has a cast in one eye, the Tooth Fairy shows up at the ophthalmologist's, apologizes for causing him to now need glasses, and, in exchange, gives him an opportunity to save his friend from a horrible event for which he's "marked." The alluded-to event does come to pass on the day cited and Sam is able to rescue his pal. This is a fantastic set-up with a mercurial magical creature who is unbelievably foul and dangerous one moment and somewhat thoughtful and sensitive the next. But there aren't enough examples of the Tooth Fairy's foreknowledge and other powers, and its whole deal is never explained -- nor does Sam ever bother to ask about its origins and motivations in all the years it's in his life. Granted, his first question to it -- "are you a boy or a girl" -- is met with such venomous hatred and the threat that "You ask me that again and I'll bite your face off. I mean it," one can understand his hesitation to probe further. But when he gets to the point that he's having astronomy lessons and sex with it, you'd think it would come up. There is way too much focus on sex and masturbation, and the parts about Sam and his friends and the girl they're all interested were pretty boring once I realized it all wasn't really going anywhere. You'd think the three friends would be more deeply bonded, Sam having saved one from murder and the other from sodomy (both with the help of the Tooth Fairy). But though they remain close, there's no real sense that their connection is as meaningful as it should be.
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Summary: Weird fiction
Review: This book is an argument against rigid categorization. It is not quite fantasy, and certainly not horror. Magical realism might come close. Personally, I would prefer weird fiction. The Tooth Fairy is a clearly observed narrative of growing up in rural England in the sixties and seventies. An ordinary boy, with all the ordinary problems and joys of adolescence, receives irregular visits from a extraordinary creature, at first wild and terrifying, later strangely sympathetic. The prose is crisp, the pace is brisk, the characters are well drawn, and the invocation of time and place were, for me, achingly nostalgic. This book was difficult to put down and over all too soon.
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Summary: Disappointed
Review: This book was a great disappointment to me. I love books that have a real setting and yet there is a touch of magic thrown in. Christopher Moore is a master at this type of narrative. He makes you feel as though YOU could stumble onto something mythical in your day to day life. "The Tooth Fairy" did not deliver this. This was a sexually twisted piece of writing. The book might have been more enjoyable if it had just given in to its erotic fixation fully and quit trying to be a creepy coming of age story. At the end of the book I had nothing invested in the story or the characters. The only reason I finished it was a misguided hope that the ending would reveal SOMETHING.
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Summary: *GASP*
Review: This book was amazing. I mean really enthralling and creepy and brilliant and beautiful. This is my first book by Joyce, and you better believe it won't be my last. I must read all of his books now. I'm hooked...
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