Helpful Score: 4
Fantastic horror novel similar to the early Stephen Kings like "It". It's the kids vs. major evil in a small midwestern town.
Helpful Score: 3
if you like horror, suspense und science fiction this is a great book to read.
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Helpful Score: 3
Dan Simmons is my new favorite horror novel writer. He kept me up at night with this one. And I'm not ususlly a scaredy-cat. It has almost everything --- ghosts, slime, heart pounding suspense, an old haunted school, and a bunch of young kids who are saving the town without the town even knowing it. I could say that the kids are way too young to be this wise and learned, but it's ok, they seem to fit. With all the weird and terrible stuff going on, somehow the ending ties up all the loose ends. It's a good read!
On the other hand, don't bother with the follow up, "A Winter Haunting." It's a real waste of reading time.
On the other hand, don't bother with the follow up, "A Winter Haunting." It's a real waste of reading time.
Helpful Score: 3
I read this one YEARS ago and have been trying to get my hands on it for a reread over the past couple of years with no success until now (Thanks PBS). Simmons does not disappoint in this thriller that takes us back to our childhood fears and wild imaginations. I couldn't put this one down!!! A pretty easy read. Not heavy at all for when you just want some straight forward entertaining, thrilling fiction.
Helpful Score: 1
Creepy and sinister. You can tell the author has read Lovecraft. Far more subtle than Stephen King.
Its the summer of 1960. The sixth-grade boys of Elm Haven, IL, are forging the powerful magical bonds that a lifetime of growth and loss will never erase. Amid the sun-drenched cornfields and the sly flirtations of the town's young girls, that loyalty will be pitilessly tested. From the silent depths of the old Central School, a hulking fortress tinged with the mahogany scent of coffins, an invisable evil drifts outward-plunging Mike, Duane, Dale, Harlen and Kevin into a war without boundary or mercy, where an eternal enemy owns the night...
very good book , well worth readinf
very good and scary!
I am a huge fan of Dan Simmons because of Hyperion and Illiad, so I have very high expectations for his books. This was great and creative, but it felt a little bit long (whereas Hyperion and Illiad were just as long, but I didn't want them to end).
Sherry C. (sheshe2madison) reviewed Summer of Night (Summer of Night, Bk 1) on + 24 more book reviews
My first time to read this author. I enjoyed this book enough to read him again. The storyline reminded me of growing up in the 60's. The characters were quite engaging.
This is what "It", should have been...good read!
I Love It!!!!
I'm sorry, I got this book for my dad whose copy was falling apart. However, I will say that he always claimed that it was his favorite book!
This is a good book but it goes on and on and on and........ You get the idea. Plus it involves the death of children and that's really disturbing to me. If you like supernatural thrillers that involve dead kids it'll be OK.
