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Title: The End Of Alice by A. M. Homes ISBN: 0-684-82710-7 Publisher: Scribner Book Company Pub. Date: 01 February, 1997 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.69 (68 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: The best book I've ever read!
Comment: I found "The End of Alice" to be one of the most interesting and unique books I have ever read. I thought it to be more of a grotesque love story than a horror story. Basiclly the first 13 chapters or so goes through out the narators correspondance with a 19 year old girl. The girl opens up her whole life to this 54 year old convict and tries to model herself after him. The convict eventually falls in love with her and his past comes back to haunt him. Around the 14th chapter things start to get interesting, this is where the misterious Alice comes in and everthing starts to fit together. By the end your expecting a death, but you'll be shocked by the gruesome details. "The End of Alice" is a book filled with love, jealousy, and most of all blood! I suggest it to everyone because it's so shocking yet so wonderful. Homes really knows how to catch someones attention
Rating: 5
Summary: Unlike Anything I've Ever Read
Comment: Before I talk about the subject matter, and why I believe this is an important and courageous book, let me comment on the writing. I found Homes' dreamlike, almost surreal style difficult to follow at first. Some of the diction and sentence structures seemed odd to me, and I was forced to slow down and read carefully to fully understand what was being said. After a while, I grew to love this style. It's strangely engaging, much like to book itself, and it lets you absorb the power of the words you are reading rather than speed through them.
As for the story itself, I was blown away. Homes really gets into the heads of the main characters and accurately (I think) captures the thoughts, emotions and motivations of, in turn, a 19-year old girl bursting with sexuality, a 12-year old boy on the cusp of discovering his own sexuality and a 60-something sex offender struggling with his inner demons. I found all three portrayals to be convincing. And what a story! At various times in the book, I was repelled, confused, aroused, disgusted or amazed, but I was never, ever bored. Some of those scenes will stay with me for many years, I'm sure. It's a challanging and controversal book, to be sure, but it reveals some truths about sexual power and attraction better than any non-fiction book could.
Rating: 1
Summary: Repulsive, Textual Vomit
Comment: If Hannibal Lechter were to pen a cheap Harlequin romance novel, this is would be the outcome. The author's overuse of ridculous adjectives and graphic sexual deviance does absolutely nothing to create any semblance of a story. These characters are so ridiculously pathological that I found myself actually laughing out loud. Scab eating? Oh, please. Why didn't the author throw in a farting contest as well?
Not too mention the sexual shock factor is littered with phrases like "moony mounds", "loving piles" and "milky brown suede." Hey readers! There is more rear-action than a Super Bowl Tailgate party. Absolutely nothing redeeming about this book. It is gross, infantile and just plain ridiculous. Pass the vomit basin!
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Title: Music for Torching by A. M. Homes ISBN: 068817762X Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 04 April, 2000 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Safety of Objects by A. M. Homes ISBN: 0060564512 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 01 January, 2003 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Appendix A: An Elaboration on the Novel the End of Alice by A. M. Homes, A. M. Homes ISBN: 0963109561 Publisher: Artspace Books Pub. Date: 01 March, 1996 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: Things You Should Know: A Collection of Stories by A. M. Homes ISBN: 0060520132 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 02 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: In a Country of Mothers by A. M. Homes ISBN: 0679742433 Publisher: Vintage Books USA Pub. Date: 01 April, 1994 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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