Pulse en una miniatura para ir a Google Books.
Cargando... The Voicespor F. R. Tallis
Ninguno Cargando...
Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. Got to love a spooky house ( ) I've skimmed a few other reviews and it seems we're all by and large in agreement: a good story overall, with great atmosphere and tension-building, but spoiled by red herrings and an anticlimactic ending. Not a big fan of the Chekov's Gun principle, this author. Had I been Tallis's editor I would have had the following comments on his manuscript: 1) What about the dirt on the shoes? Did you just plain forget about this? Was it meant to be a diversion? If so, please acknowledge it. Have one of the characters investigate it and come to some sort of conclusion. 2) Why even bother mentioning Edward Stokes Maybury at all if he's not really going to be a part of the story except as a name? There's no information about his show, the children he took, what he did with them -- well except for 3) the red room. Dude. Write it or don't. Two or three paragraphs separated by hundreds of pages does not a creepy thing make. (It doesn't even make decent foreshadowing, as it was almost immediately forgotten.) Seeing as how it was the eventual site where the bodies were found it should have echoed through the book. Overall disconnectedness aside I truly enjoyed the creepy atmosphere, which was somehow enhanced for me by the smothering 1970s set-dressing, because it gave the book a vibe very reminiscent of the great (though often plodding) horror movies of the 1970s. I might have perhaps asked for some more subtlety in the sometimes-clichéd and often-stereotypical main characters' hard adherence to a sort of social studies textbook version of what the Everyman and Everywoman were like in the 70s, but it wasn't insufferable. (Not all the time.) It did show that the wife and husband were moving in opposite directions. This was a very solid manuscript, but I don't know if I would have published it as is. Still and all, an enjoyable read if you like a haunted house story. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
In the scorching summer of 1976--the hottest on record--Christopher Norton, his wife Laura and their young daughter Faye settle into their new home in north London.The faded glory of the Victorian house is the perfect place for Norton, a composer of film soundtracks, to build a recording studio of his own. But soon in the long, oppressively hot nights, Laura begins to hear something through the crackle of the baby monitor. First, a knocking sound. Then come the voices.For Norton, the voices mark an exciting opportunity. Putting his work aside, he begins the project of a lifetime--a grand symphony incorporating the voices--and becomes increasingly obsessed with one voice in particular. Someone who is determined to make themselves heard . . . No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
Debates activosNingunoCubiertas populares
Google Books — Cargando... GénerosSistema Decimal Melvil (DDC)823.92Literature English & Old English literatures English fiction Modern Period 2000-Clasificación de la Biblioteca del CongresoValoraciónPromedio:
¿Eres tú?Conviértete en un Autor de LibraryThing. |