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Title: The night people by Jack Finney ISBN: 0-385-13029-5 Publisher: Doubleday Pub. Date: 1977 Format: Unknown Binding List Price(USD): $7.95

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Average Customer Rating: 3.67 (3 reviews)

Rating: 3
Summary: The Night People
Comment: Hmmmmmm. Sort of a tame, unfulfilled precursor to something like Fight Club. Finney takes four well-adjusted, clean-living suburbanites--two close couples, actually--and shows them thrashing around, trying to find life on the edge. Most of the antics consist of night forays (not surprising, eh?, given our title) that become progressively more daring, and do manage to get the police on their trail.

Probably the best night excursion takes place once Lew and Harry have decided the Night People should stop with the bush-league mischief, and start setting risky challenges for each other. Drunken ribaldry had led to a party turned nude photo-shoot for the two fellas and their wives--Jo and Shirley, both just as enthusiastic (initially) about their nighttime double-lives--and Harry does the unthinkable: hides the lewdest snapshot in the local library somewhere, in some book that, if Lew and Jo don't retrieve it--it's bound to be discovered the next day by one of the usual covey of students who continuously use the books. The challenge: how to find the photo in a dark library, where turning on a light will almost certainly draw the police...possibly a certain officer who knows of, and has been humiliated by, the Night People, not too long ago.

After that lengthy but tense bit of daring, the women feel it's spiraling out of control when the next stint is something different, something truly dangerous. Not just something that could destroy their professional lives if they were caught...

Finney ends up keeping the whole thing a bit too innocent. Not edgy enough. The night peoples' idea of being naughty is a bit tame, if you ask me, though their courage at the end is worth noting. They finally try to take it all the way.

Fight Club--somewhat similar--takes it to the next level. The Night People is more likely to appeal to fans of Stephen King's (aka Richard Bachman's) book called Roadwork, where there's also a feeling of opportunity for real edginess missed.

Rating: 4
Summary: Most of us have all been there.
Comment: In this story, we visit something that many of have experienced. What is the world outside of our homes like at 3am? You know it's different....but just how different? If you never explored your neighborhood late at night then this will help you. If you have, well then this book is preaching to the quior. May the gods of darkness hide your true identity.

Rating: 4
Summary: A protest against Suburban apathy
Comment: "The Night People" is a story of 4 people that a bored with the mundaneness of their lives. They have tried rock climbing, gone sailing and other "extreme" activities but they soon grow weary of them. They discover the eerie emptiness of the suburbs late at night. Together they find themselves going for 3 am walks on weeknights through deserted streets and plazas. The plot thickens from here on in as they get themselves into trouble. This book is great, I live in a similar sounding town and I can relate to the mundanity of the town, and the description of the "pod" type people who inhabit it.