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Title: House of Bones by Dale Bailey ISBN: 0-451-21079-4 Publisher: New American Library Pub. Date: 02 December, 2003 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.22 (9 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: An amazing story
Comment: Wow. I was just blown away by this book. This is the story of a place that is just plain bad. Dreamland was a housing development that turned into an urban war zone. Now the city has razed the buildings- all except the third tower, which just happens to be the one with the bloodiest history. Demolition of tower three was halted by a very wealthy man who wants to find out if the rumors about the tower being haunted are true. He brings four people with big problems of their own and ties to the tower along with him, hoping to get to the truth for reasons of his own.
I was truly impressed with this book. I will definitely read more of Bailey's books.
Rating: 5
Summary: It's Not Genre; It's LITERATURE
Comment: Dale Bailey has crafted a novel that is as multileveled in its subtext as is Dreamland, the high-rise urban Hell known as THE HOUSE OF BONES. Bailey creates characters that are frightening in their similarities to those around us; they think bad thoughts, are selfish, and are fraught with self-doubt. They move through the novel as we do in real life, toward a nasty end that is one-sided and ugly in its eventuality. Reading HOUSE OF BONES, one knows that life will not end well for its characters as Bailey instills an ever-growing dread and suspense within each page. It's like watching a movie like SE7EN--you know somebody's going to get it, you don't know when, and worse, you never know HOW. It is a page-turner. This novel is an improvement over the excellent FALLEN and his style sings. His is a fresh and literate voice amongst a plethora of writers who would recycle the same novel repeatedly changing only the character's names and little else. It is refreshing to find a writer unafraid to go in a divergent direction and craft work that is not only different in style and voice but in subject matter. Moreover, this book contains important social connotation and could very easily be a mainstream literary novel in the vein of BELOVED. I will not give away plot points of this book as to do so would rob the reader of its majesty and suspense. Don't look at the blurb on the back of the book either if you truly want to be enthralled with and taken over by Dreamland, THE HOUSE OF BONES.
Rating: 1
Summary: Boring, Shallow, Predictable
Comment: Wow,does this book suck or what? I found it to be extremely mundane, prosaic, intellectually meager, irritating instead of frightening or intriguing. Save your money. How these kinds of crappy stories get published, I will forever wonder.
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Title: Risen by J. Knight ISBN: 0786016124 Publisher: Pinnacle Books Pub. Date: January, 2004 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: The Rising by Brian Keene ISBN: 0843952016 Publisher: Leisure Books Pub. Date: January, 2004 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: The Fallen by Dale Bailey ISBN: 0451207637 Publisher: Signet Pub. Date: November, 2002 List Price(USD): $6.50 |
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Title: The Harvest by Scott Nicholson ISBN: 0786015799 Publisher: Pinnacle Books Pub. Date: September, 2003 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: Darkfall by Stephen Laws ISBN: 0843952180 Publisher: Dorchester Pub Co Pub. Date: June, 2003 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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