I couldn't get through the precious "olde-tyme" prose style here. Too many intensifiers like "quite" and "ever so." I truly don't get the love for thiI couldn't get through the precious "olde-tyme" prose style here. Too many intensifiers like "quite" and "ever so." I truly don't get the love for this one. I gave up after 50 pages.
I kept thinking if I wanted to read some purple prose about a mysterious circus, I'd just go read Ray Bradbury....more
I tried to get through this one, but I just couldn't hang. There are a couple of interesting ideas in it (I liked the spectacular haunted house as famI tried to get through this one, but I just couldn't hang. There are a couple of interesting ideas in it (I liked the spectacular haunted house as family business), but overall, I was never quite sure what was happening or who I was supposed to care about. The text does not quite live up to the title or the King cover blurb (Lovecraft-meets-John-Irving).
And it reads like a pretty clearly YA-pitched story for about half of it, and then a weirdly tone-deaf and explicit sex scene occurs kind of out of nowhere. It feels like a testosterone-fueled high school boy wrote it.
I've been hankering for a good horror yarn for a while, and this ain't it....more
I never could get into the Dark Tower series...and this just seemed like it had too many references to that world for me to hang with. I dropped it afI never could get into the Dark Tower series...and this just seemed like it had too many references to that world for me to hang with. I dropped it after 50 pages or so....more
I can't stand Eddings' precious prose style. Who edited this stuff? Example: "The bottom of the pond was very unpleasant, a kind of dark weedy ooze inI can't stand Eddings' precious prose style. Who edited this stuff? Example: "The bottom of the pond was very unpleasant, a kind of dark weedy ooze inhabited by frogs, turtles and a singularly unsavory-looking eel that slithered away snakelike when Garion plunged like a sinking rock into the weeds." Between the redundant similes and the flaccid adverbs, I get a gross aftertaste from reading this. I gave up on page 45....more
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