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Chargement... Ordinary Horrorpar David Searcy
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. Oddly, although I read this in October, I plucked it out of a mountain of books at random and understood it was literary, not horror, despite the title. On one level, this story is excellent and for the first few chapters I was engrossed by the strange plant Mr Delabano puts in the ground, but by the halfway point I felt bombarded by a sense of isolation. No doubt this may be what the author intended, as the book is about the isolation of suburban life, but the style weighs heavily and didn’t seem to follow any path. The pace varies, plodding, sometimes enjoyable. If you’re looking for riveting and exciting, this may not be the book for you. It’s more one of social commentary. The writing likely deserves a 4/5 even though the author goes too much in to the minutiae of Mr Delabano’s life, but my personal enjoyment lingers around a mere 2. As for the grand payoff I’d heard about, I was disappointed. At one point, I wondered if the old man would end up killing his often unwelcome neighbours, but this didn’t happen. A lot is obscure. I’m sure there are many passages that will speak to some but bore and confuse others. You’ll never really know if the strange plant influences Mr Delabano’s neighbourhood, or if he is simply going mad under the weight of loneliness. ( ) This story had a nice leisurely pace. Not in a bad way, but in a way that let's you know something is building. And so the tension and questions keep building. I was expectant, and certainly getting into it (it's something of a very subtle Little Shop of Horrors). But then came the end. Couldn't make heads or tails of it. This was the epitome of the ambiguous ending (which I don't necessarily mind). But if you're someone who needs the ends wrapped up tightly, this one might frustrate you. Overall, the trip was worth it. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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David Searcy's first novel tells the story of Frank Delabano, a seventy-year-old widower who lives a perfectly quiet life in an aging tract house neighborhood, where he keeps to himself, tending the flowerbeds in his small backyard. When his beloved roses are menaced by some sort of mysterious burrowing pest, Mr. Delabano mails away for an organic remedy he sees advertised in the local paper: gopherbane, an exotic South American plant guaranteed to get rid of garden varmints "but harmless to pets and everything else." The strange, blue-flowering plants do the trick, but the claim about their being harmless to everything else proves to be false advertising--to put it mildly. As incidents of "ordinary horror" mount daily, Searcy's tale gradually builds to an unforgettable apocalyptic climax...Ordinary Horror marks the debut of a singularly original new voice in American fiction. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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