
Heart-Shaped Box
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Joe Hill
I will sell my stepfather's ghost to the highest bidder.
For a thousand dollars, Jude will become the proud owner of a dead man's suit, said to be haunted by a restless spirit. He isn't afraid. He has spent a lifetime coping with ghosts: of an abusive father, of the lovers he callously abandoned, of the bandmates he betrayed. What's one more? But what UPS delivers to his door in a black heart-shaped box is no imaginary or metaphorical ghost. It's the real thing.
And suddenly the suit's previous owner is everywhere: behind the bedroom door...seated in Jude's restored vintage Mustang...standing outside his window...staring out from his widescreen TV. Waiting - with a gleaming razor blade on a chain dangling from one hand.
A multiple award-winner for his short fiction, author Joe Hill immediately vaults into the top echelon of dark fantasists with a masterwork brimming with relentless thrills and acid terror.
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Critic reviews
- Audie Award winner, Thriller/Suspense, 2008
- Thriller Award, Best Novel, 2008
"Powerful....[Hill's] subtle and skillful treatment of horrors that could easily have exploded over the top and out of control helps make this a truly memorable debut." (Publishers Weekly)
"Mr. Hill elicits honest empathy for Jude, who turned his stage persona into a nightmare version of his fears and must now figure out what strength he has left for legitimate battles. This dynamic is both frightening and funny, and the book weaves together those two threads in clever ways." (The New York Times)
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The story flows well, is fairly fast paced, well written and I do find myself feeling tense when the ghost is around. Like the review above, However, I have had a hard time feeling empathy for or identifying with the two pain characters.
Call me a prude if you must, but I find his particular and rather frequent descriptions of sexual encounters disturbing and totally unnecessary to the plot. There are just some images I don't want in my head. I haven't read a lot of Mr. Kings books, but within those I have I don't recall him having to resort to such to make the point. It'd be a good story if these were omitted.
I actually find myself questioning if I want to listen to the remaining 3 hours.
However, if you can ignore these things, you may find that you "enjoy" the creepiness of their interactions with the ghost.
Not for kids, teens and even many adults.
Creepy but Sexually Explicit
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On Par with some of his father's works
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Judas Coyne has a long baggage train, and some of the contents stink, bad. The two main females characters, Florida and Georgia, are more sympathetic right from the beginning. The ghost is single-mindedly dedicated to Jude's death, and it takes most of the book for his motivation to be revealed.
I didn't find this book to be frightening. Interesting, yes, but not frightening.
After reading other reviewers I was apprehensive about the dogs. I actually stopped reading Dumas Key because of the passage with the dog, and didn't finish the book until a friend suggested I just fast forward past it. Unlike Dumas Key, the dogs in this book are developed characters in themselves. They are integral parts of the plot, and their role is both fulfilling and redeeming. Because of this, their treatment isn't as heart-rending and appalling as that meted out to the helpless and pathetic Jack Russell terrier in Dumas Key. Still, what is it with the Kings and dogs?
Finally, the ending was just a bit too pat, neat; it seems that Hill, like his father King, reserves the worst for the dogs. It's this syrupy, sentimental ending that influenced me to give the book four stars instead of five.
Still, overall, this is a terrific read and I recommend it.
Good Listening!
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I really liked Nos4a2 and thought this was not quite as good. That said, it was an enjoyable read and after it got going held my attention completely.
I mostly liked it...
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Grittily Scary
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Was good with some scary parts
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Chilling story
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Great Listen
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Started off strong....
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First of all, the narration is absolutely on point. Second, while Joe Hill is actually Steven King's son his style is extremely different. It's still first class horror, but Hill is way bleaker than his father. If you're a horror fan, you owe it to yourself to fire this up; I haven't been this genuinely scared by a ghost story in ages. What are you waiting for?
Welcome to the Night Road
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