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(4.33) | 4 | "There was something in the water".Kiss me quick and squeeze me slow, there's something amiss in the crumbling seaside resort of Gravestown: children are vanishing and nobody can understand how.Gregory Ashe watches them go, sees them hanging from their tatty 'wanted' pictures and the wilting bouquets of flowers left by well wishers. Like most thirteen year olds he feels it's nothing to do with him, he's far too busy with his face in a book and a head full of dreams.Then, amongst the seaweed and shingle, a solitary foot is washed up and the violence begins.Gravestown is infected. People are beginning to lose their minds, changing, becoming other. Blood is spilt, over and over and over...Through it all the waves roll and, in the dark building on the cliff tops, the lunatics howl by the light of their moon. Slowly the safe walls of reality are crumbling and it seems nobody can stop it. Nobody that is except The Magician, a man who takes young Gregory under his wing and shows him how hollow those dreams of his really are, a man with more than just spare decks of cards hidden up his sleeve. Gregory's never been in so much danger... A dark fantasy laced with humour and terror, "More Than This" is a fast paced journey from innocence to maturity, fear to hope, heaven to hell. Exciting, horrifying and filled with the sort of imagination, escapism and, above all, magic you remember from books you read as a child - magic you thought lost.… (mehr) |
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▾Literaturhinweise Literaturhinweise zu diesem Werk aus externen Quellen. Wikipedia auf EnglischKeine ▾Buchbeschreibungen "There was something in the water".Kiss me quick and squeeze me slow, there's something amiss in the crumbling seaside resort of Gravestown: children are vanishing and nobody can understand how.Gregory Ashe watches them go, sees them hanging from their tatty 'wanted' pictures and the wilting bouquets of flowers left by well wishers. Like most thirteen year olds he feels it's nothing to do with him, he's far too busy with his face in a book and a head full of dreams.Then, amongst the seaweed and shingle, a solitary foot is washed up and the violence begins.Gravestown is infected. People are beginning to lose their minds, changing, becoming other. Blood is spilt, over and over and over...Through it all the waves roll and, in the dark building on the cliff tops, the lunatics howl by the light of their moon. Slowly the safe walls of reality are crumbling and it seems nobody can stop it. Nobody that is except The Magician, a man who takes young Gregory under his wing and shows him how hollow those dreams of his really are, a man with more than just spare decks of cards hidden up his sleeve. Gregory's never been in so much danger... A dark fantasy laced with humour and terror, "More Than This" is a fast paced journey from innocence to maturity, fear to hope, heaven to hell. Exciting, horrifying and filled with the sort of imagination, escapism and, above all, magic you remember from books you read as a child - magic you thought lost. ▾Bibliotheksbeschreibungen Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. ▾Beschreibung von LibraryThing-Mitgliedern
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In the novella "More Than This", author Guy Adams gives the reader ample evidence that he not only has a firm grasp on this, his is an adeptness of masterful skill. The narration shuffles back and forth between First Person, to Third Person Omniscient, then Third Person Omnipresent… and the reader is only left wondering as to what is happening by way of a welcome opportunity to use one’s cognitive powers with this new scene. While this sort of anarchic style might either make one work too hard, or just plain make you want to look up the author’s SKYPE number so as to give him a piece of your mind, this writer leaves you with the desire to look him up so’s to pop ’round to his flat with a rather nice bottle of Pinot Noir that you hope to help him drink.
The story is set in a small, formerly popular, British sea-side resort in the mid-60s using the sorts of details that tells you everything you need to know without giving enough information to pin-point the town and exact year. With a lesser word-smith, the story would be laden-down with so much precision that specific world events would be endlessly paraded in front of us in order to make abundantly clear just how many hours the hack spent in the clipping morgue of a relevant newspaper office. Mr. Adams takes a far smarter route by making the experience about the characters’ immidiate environs rich in sensual details which are far more effective upon the imagination. I suspect him of being someone who can quote entire scenes of "Quadrophenia" and "I’m All Right Jack" though, as there huge passages of the book that I swear are meant to occur just around the corner from ones in the other works.
The tale tells us of this little town’s struggle with an un-known force of evil that takes over the citizens to its own secret, despicable ends. Before it is vanquished – as it must be – we are shown images from disturbing depths, then to the adrenalized heights of terror, made all the more rich from the characterizations’ breadth and humour of pin-point accuracy. This variety keeps things breathing in just the right rhythm.
Half of the pleasure with this book is the sheer joy of discovery as events unfold through the sudden shifts of both location and time, so to say more about its details would spoil the fun. You owe it to yourself to get your hands on a copy of this, just so you can say ‘I got into Guy Adams from the start, and I always knew he was going to be huge!’ And he will be.
Get him to sign your copy. If you’re really lucky, he might write something rude in your copy. ( )