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Lädt ... The Boy Who Drew Monsters: A Novel (2014. Auflage)von Keith Donohue
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Melde dich bei LibraryThing an um herauszufinden, ob du dieses Buch mögen würdest. Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. This book could have and should have been so much better. The story, and the setting were perfect, but the author managed to take these two positives and write a book that was boring. Horrible dialog, uninteresting characters, who don't behave like regular people, and the author feels the need to remind you how smart he is with his word choice. Reading the book I would have sworn it was 500 pages, not 273. It was that kind of boring. Oh and the big surprise ending didn't make up for the rest of the story and subplots that started and then went nowhere. I could see this being made into a movie or a miniseries where with better writing and great atmosphere the story would be much better. 3 stars is my liked-didn't-love rating. I liked the idea of this, and the author did a swell job of creating a spooky atmosphere and a slow ominous build to the big reveals. The twist at the end was great-I never saw it coming. I enjoyed the writing a lot at the beginning and less so as the build-up of similes started to jar me out of the story. For the most part, they were pretty cool similes-one of my favorites was "regal as a coiffed fox" to describe a Shiba Inu in a photograph. But that doesn't mean I thought everything needed to be ____________as a ___________, and I started to feel it was a bit thick, especially when the characters started talking in similes. A little girl saying her house had been "quiet as a church" just sounded abnormal to me. I also thought he left some loose ends that could have been explored more It was an interesting story, and I really liked the setting. I just wish the writing style hadn't been so distracting, and that I had a better sense of Jack Peter by the end of it. I just didn't enjoy this one. The characters are weird and seem somewhat one-sided. No one goes through any change, it seems. They're the same people with the same thoughts from beginning to end. There's a subplot with a priest and a Japanese housekeeper lady that I didn't understand. I don't know, the whole thing was just sort of lackluster. keine Rezensionen | Rezension hinzufügen
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"Ever since he nearly drowned in the ocean three years earlier,10-year-old Jack Peter Keenan has been deathly afraid to venture outdoors. Refusing to leave his home in a small coastal town in Maine, Jack Peter spends his time drawing monsters. When those drawings take on a life of their own, no one is safe from the terror they inspire. His mother, Holly, begins to hear strange sounds in the night coming from the ocean, and she seeks answers from the local Catholic priest and his Japanese housekeeper who fill her head with stories of shipwrecks and ghosts. His father, Tim, wanders the beach, frantically searching for a strange apparition running wild in the dunes. And the boy's only friend, Nick, becomes helplessly entangled in the eerie power of the drawings. While those around Jack Peter are haunted by what they think they see, only he knows the truth behind the frightful occurrences as the outside world encroaches upon them all. In the tradition of The Turn of the Screw, Keith Donohue's The Boy Who Drew Monsters is a mesmerizing tale of psychological terror and imagination run wild, a perfectly creepy read for a dark night. - For readers of Neil Gaiman, Jason Mott, and Audrey Niffenegger"-- Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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The story sort of ambles along for a good while, throwing out tidbits and going down avenues that may or may not have much relevance to anything in the end. The character of the boy Jack Peter is drawn well, though his parents seem like they could have used a bit more work (I know I just saw something really strange I can't explain, but you can't possibly have heard anything odd, honey, you nutty kook).
The ending is strange and twisty, and I can envision two reactions on the part of the reader: throwing up one's hands in exasperation, or thinking "ooh, very good!" I kinda did both. ( )