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Pin (1981)

por Andrew Neiderman

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Young Leon and Ursula had little except each other. Mother was driven by a psychotic need to clean--constantly--everything in sight. Father was consumed by his medical practice and an analytical approach to life. But he understood the sensual hunger growing inside his children's young bodies. He knew they could help each other answer, "The Need." Father had Science. Father had Reason. And he had Pin.      Pin who answered all the children's questions in a voice not unlike the doctor's. Father's clever trick. Father's brilliant illusion. But then there was the accident and Mother and the doctor were dead. Still there was Pin--who had so much to tell then even yet...whose enigmatic stare held such wisdom. There would just be the three of them now. Quiet Leon, beautiful and frightened Ursula, and wise, implacable Pin. They were all each of them would need. Ever. … (más)
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Well, this book was… disappointing. It was borderline horror, which is what I was looking for judging by the cool cover art. I was reminded of this one by the really great book [b:Paperbacks from Hell|33670466|Paperbacks from Hell The Twisted History of '70s and '80s Horror Fiction|Grady Hendrix|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1504436657l/33670466._SX50_.jpg|54542087]. When I was younger, the PIN paperback sat for probably most of a decade on the shelves with my mother’s vast collection of horror paperbacks when I was young at the far end of the hallway by the old swamp cooler. I would flip through them on occasion and sometimes even read a few, I only really completed a handful, unfortunately. My mother had caught me once perusing this book and said it wasn’t appropriate for me and finished with these words of wisdom, “besides it sucked”. The art on this one always entranced me, but I never got past the first few chapters in my perusals. That is until Paperback Hell reminded me of its existence, and I picked up a reprint copy (under the Paperback Hell imprint) and plopped it onto one of my (very tall) to-read stacks.
Now, I’ve finally read it through, it was a quick easy read I’ll give it that, but I was sorely disappointed by it. It was definitely more in the vein of a [a:V.C. Andrews|1353301|V.C. Andrews|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1413410493p2/1353301.jpg] novel where the thrill of perverseness pretty much is the point. There was no real horror (or much real drama) though there is murder. Although, the incest carried out via a transparent anatomy dummy surrogate was deliciously whacked-out. The only high point in the book in my opinion. It did move along fairly quickly but then again there’s not much here, the story is very spare and the characters are very thin though given some background and a modicum of personality. It’s all from the view of the brother and thus this choice pretty much locks the author into a story mode that just does not allow for rich character-building. The only possible "twist" wasn't really a twist as the text gave that away really early on in my opinion. Maybe it wasn't supposed to be, but at least that would've added a little something else to this. I would’ve loved to have the Vietnam vet boyfriend have to work through his trauma with the sister, at least one scene of this to let the book get a real hook into me.
Overall, this is less a horror novel than a very simple V.C. Andrews-style American gothic story with a pretty perverse angle. I don’t think I would recommend this to anyone per se, just read the paragraph in Paperbacks from Hell and some of the reviews here to get the whole gist of the thing. However, I’ll give it two stars due to the ease of the read and the perverseness on display here. Note apparently the author Andrew Neiderman ghost wrote for V.C. Andrews after her death, so there’s that. I should’ve listened to my mother.
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  Ranjr | Jul 13, 2023 |
This is a strange, strange book. Gothic in nature, and told in a style similar to that of V.C. Andrews (certainly helping to explain why Neiderman became the ghostwriter for her later books), Pin is an eerie, strange read that revolves around a brother and sister who live with the life-size dummy which their father once used for his medical practice. For much of the work, the reader questions what's real and what's not, uncertain even if there's a supernatural element to the book, or if it's only a matter of psychosis. As the book goes further, there's more and more material that will, at least, make any reader raise an eyebrow and feel a bit of shock. The depravity pictured here is obscene in many spots, and hard to read in some, so the book is an unsettling one.

I found that the end dragged, although I was pulled along non-stop for the first half of the book. At around the halfway to two-thirds point, everything became clearer (to me, at least--I know other readers in my book club who felt differently), so that I found the ending fairly predictable, and a lot less interesting than I might have hoped. I think Neiderman implemented so much foreshadowing that the end being predictable was in some ways a foregone conclusion, and especially considering how eerie and atmospheric and unsettling the beginning and middle had been, I would have expected more from the end.

I'm not sure I'll read more Neiderman. If you're tempted by this book, I will say that you need to go into it expecting to read some disturbing material; the book requires content warnings for incestuous behavior and non-consensual sex. If you've read V.C. Andrews' library at large, I don't think anything here will outright shock you--it's much the same style and touches on some of the same types of questionable behavior, without doubt--though you might be surprised by how blatantly perverse some of the humor here is. ( )
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Young Leon and Ursula had little except each other. Mother was driven by a psychotic need to clean--constantly--everything in sight. Father was consumed by his medical practice and an analytical approach to life. But he understood the sensual hunger growing inside his children's young bodies. He knew they could help each other answer, "The Need." Father had Science. Father had Reason. And he had Pin.      Pin who answered all the children's questions in a voice not unlike the doctor's. Father's clever trick. Father's brilliant illusion. But then there was the accident and Mother and the doctor were dead. Still there was Pin--who had so much to tell then even yet...whose enigmatic stare held such wisdom. There would just be the three of them now. Quiet Leon, beautiful and frightened Ursula, and wise, implacable Pin. They were all each of them would need. Ever. 

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