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Title: BLUE WORLD : BLUE WORLD by Robert McCammon ISBN: 0-671-69518-5 Publisher: Pocket Pub. Date: 01 April, 1990 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.65 (17 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Short horror fiction that rivals, if not trumps, King
Comment: In this sweet set of 13 short stories, McCammon proves once again that he unrivalled in skill at:
1. establishing setting
2. creating and defining complex characters in a hurry
3. creating plots that are, if not unique, then at least original.
"Yellowjacket Summer," "Blue World" and "Yellachile's Cage" are fine examples of a short story writer at the height of his skill. Others, like "Something Passed By," "I Scream Man" and "Pin" have their weaknesses, but tackle complex plots and emotions without creating stories that feel stretched out and thin.
Rating: 5
Summary: One of McCammon's Best
Comment: Robert McCammon has (for the most part) stopped publishing his work. With the notable exception of the excellent "Speaks the Nightbird," he hasn't published new work in 10 years. I can only say that this is a pity. Re-reading "Blue World" recently, I was reminded of why.
"Blue World" is a collection of 12 short stories spanning McCammon's career, and one novella. The stories are all worth reading, offering up a good variety of material, from the frightening ("Yellowjacket Summer") to the disturbing ("Pin") to the sublime (the novella, "Blue World").
What this collection brings to mind most, however, is McCammon's skill at setting a mood. He tells a great story, but very few writers can set the stage better than McCammon. While reading "Yellowjacket Summer" the reader can't help but feel the oppressive heat prevalent throughout the story, and how the characters must have felt experiencing that same heat. In "Blue World," he captures equally well the quiet of that soft twilight, just before full dark. In "Night Calls the Green Falcon" one can really feel and understand the frustration and the impotence of a young man's ambition trapped in an old man's body.
By so skillfully establishing the mood in each and every one of the stories in "Blue World," McCammon makes the reader experience them as if they were there, inside the story itself. This is the magic of what great writing can do, bring the story home to the reader, and make it an experience.
Like my other McCammon favorites, "Boy's Life" and "Speaks the Nightbird," "Blue World" is one of the books that I treasure, from an author who now writes far too infrequently.
Rating: 2
Summary: Scary some of them, good definitely not
Comment: This book has 13 stories, I think Robert R. McCammon wrote 13 stories because is a bad luck number to many people, so we start with 13 stories. Of these 13 stories the stories that I would recommend are:
Yellowjacket Summer: This is a good story but it has a really bad end, you won't take anything of this story.
Make Up: : This is a good story, better than Yellowjacket Summer but it also has a really bad end, you won't take anything of this story.
Doom City: Is an interesting story and it has a really good end, as a matter of fact is the best end of all the stories, but it has no message at all.
Nightcrawlers: This is the best story of all, it has a good end and a message for all those people who were in a war.
Yellachille's Cage: Is a nice story and it has a very strong message, this and The Red House have the best messages of all the stories.
Night Call's the Green Falcon: This is the nicest story of all, this story could you tell to your children before they sleep (you will have to change one or two things to do that but is really nice)
The Red House: is almost as good as Yellachille's Cage.
Blue World: This story is good and it has a message for all the priests and two or three messages for all the readers, the book goes out of the main story many times, but is worth it to read it.
So here we have 6 good stories with good ends and two good stories with bad ends out of 13, I think you can choose another book before this one.
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Title: Speaks the Nightbird, Vol. 2: Evil Unveiled by Robert McCammon ISBN: 0743471393 Publisher: Pocket Pub. Date: 01 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Mystery Walk by Robert R. McCammon ISBN: 067176991X Publisher: Pocket Pub. Date: 01 October, 1992 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Swan Song by Robert McCammon ISBN: 0671741039 Publisher: Pocket Pub. Date: 01 June, 1987 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Wolf's Hour by Robert McCammon ISBN: 0671731424 Publisher: Pocket Pub. Date: 15 August, 1990 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: GONE SOUTH by Robert McCammon ISBN: 0671743074 Publisher: Pocket Pub. Date: 01 August, 1993 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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