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Title: Usher's Passing by Robert McCammon ISBN: 0-03-061833-9 Publisher: Henry Holt & Co Pub. Date: 01 August, 1984 Format: Hardcover List Price(USD): $14.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.9 (20 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Not a book for children. . .
Comment: I read Usher's Passing a number of years ago, when I was in my early teens. At the time I found the book to be terrifying and even now, in my early 20's I am haunted by the image of the Pumpkin Man peering down from the dark at that little boy. I decided to read it again, just because it had never left my mind; I needed to find out if it was really as frightening as I remembered. It is. I have also read Swan Song and Boy's Life, and can easily say that R. McCammon is my favorite author and that Usher's Passing is the scariest book I have ever read.
Rating: 4
Summary: One of McCammon's best!
Comment: A chilling story with a great plot.I think that the pumpkin man was pretty cool.I really like this book and would recomend any fans of mccammon's to read it.Definetly the scariest book by mccammon i've ever read.(I've read Boy's Life,Gone South,Usher's Passing,and Mine.)You should read this book unless you are scared of horror stories.An over-all great book!
Rating: 1
Summary: This book irritated me.
Comment: It's unbelievability irritated me. No, I'm not talking about the supernatural elements, of course you expect those, this is a gothic horror novel. What irritated me is the unbelievability of one of the story's main focuses: that the Ushers must keep their doings and what's going on in their estate a secret because otherwise the media will engage in a, I quote from the book "feeding frenzy." One character says that in the fight for who will inherit the family business, the sister will get it but the older brother will destroy her by pedalling her stories of drug abuse to the tabloids.
Hello? Am I the only one with any sense here? The media is not going to care one bit about the head of a munitions-making family dying, or the daughter of the owner of the weapons maker using drugs in the past. How often do you see tabloids print things like that? They talk about reporters flooding the estate, what a joke. Is there some big public interest in who is going to inherit a weapons making business? No. It makes no sense to pretend like the media is going to care that much.
This problem erupts again when the middle child, the younger son, wants to make a fortune by writing a book about the dirty secrets of his family. He acts like it will make him a billionaire. Uh, yeah. Nothing gets on the best seller faster than a tell-all book of a family who owns a weapons development company. Give me a break, that's weak.
After all that, I found Pumpkin Man very believable in relation.
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Title: They Thirst by Robert R. McCammon ISBN: 0380771802 Publisher: Avon Books Pub. Date: 01 May, 1981 List Price(USD): $2.95 |
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Title: MINE : MINE by Robert McCammon ISBN: 0671739441 Publisher: Pocket Books Pub. Date: 01 May, 1991 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Night Boat by Robert McCammon ISBN: 0671664832 Publisher: Simon Schuster Trade Pub. Date: October, 1988 List Price(USD): $4.50 |
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Title: GONE SOUTH ISBN: 0671743074 Publisher: Pocket Books Pub. Date: 01 August, 1993 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Mystery Walk by Robert R. McCammon ISBN: 067176991X Publisher: Pocket Books Pub. Date: 01 October, 1992 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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