Give it a look over, won't you? Thank you. I won't do a score, it wasn't my favorite but it didn't make me want to throw it against a wall, so it at least tops Dead Silence. Dan Simmons, a full-time public school teacher until 1987, is one of the few writers who consistently work across genres, producing novels described as science fiction, horror, fantasy, and mainstream fiction, while winning major awards in all these fields. If you want 'It' but somehow better? Skip it, Jack, this ain't it. If you want 'It' without all the Stephen King Coke-fueled baggage it entails, then this is your book! Over all, if you like slow burn (and I mean REALLY fuckin' slow) and have a hard-on for 1950's middle America, then look no further, Chuckles! You found your book! Plotwise: I've watched better plots come out of Roger Corman's sick dog.Ĭreature wise: there were a few, all came back to The Big Bad Thing in the school, which, really didn't do anything. Oddly enough though, it leaves some of the other supporting personae flat, I honestly couldn't tell you a damn thing about Kevin Grumbacher other than he was of german descent or about Dale other than he was the bland milquetoast brother who was friends with the fat farm kid. He loves it, if it was a horse, he'd beat it until it's pudding, he's gonna establish the HELL out of his characters whether you like it or not.

From sunset bike rides to shaded hiding places in the woods, the boys' days are marked by all of the secrets and silences of an idyllic middle-childhood. Real review time Previously stated Dan likes to draw out his prose. It's the summer of 1960 and in the small town of Elm Haven, Illinois, five twelve-year-old boys are forging the powerful bonds that a lifetime of change will not break. When your prose basically says the same thing over and over, redundantly saying that 'this character has this thing about them, because they have this thing about them, but really it was all about that thing for CHARACTER' and you drive your point home repeatedly, then it doesn't make you clever, it makes you sound like you're paid by the word. That talk is going to be about redundancy.

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