The Red Tree

De: Caitlin R. Kiernan

Narrado por: Eileen Stevens, Katherine Kellgren, Christian Rummel

Sarah Crowe left Atlanta, and the remnants of a tumultuous relationship, to live alone in an old house in rural Rhode Island. Within its walls she discovers an unfinished manuscript written by the house's former tenant - a parapsychologist obsessed with the ancient oak growing on a desolate corner of the property. And as the gnarled tree takes root in her imagination, Sarah risks her health and her sanity to unearth a revelation planted centuries ago.

©2009 Caitlin R. Kiernan (P)2010 Audible, Inc.

Reseñas de la Crítica

"[Caitlín R. Kiernan has] a gift for language that borders on the scary." (Neil Gaiman)

Very intense yet has humor too

A very intense story. Not so much because of the horror done by some spectral force but because of the tragic experiences the main character has suffered. It is very well written, not exactly the nail biter I was looking for. It is worth reading because the main character is so fascinating, amusing and dark.

Kiernan at her finest.

Would you listen to The Red Tree again? Why?

This book is a book of leaves. A book of layers. A dozen readings will begin to reveal it's many levels of meanings. One of the greatest pieces of "weird fiction" in the past decade, if not the last twenty-five years. Genius, and a deeply - if difficult - protagonist/narrator.

What was one of the most memorable moments of The Red Tree?

Sarah and Constance getting lost of their way to the tree.

Which scene was your favorite?

Sarah's climactic confrontation with the attic.

If you were to make a film of this book, what would be the tag line be?

I don't write tag lines for movies.

Any additional comments?

Kiernan continues to amaze and astound. Only her most recent, The Drowning Girl, surpass her work in The Red Tree. This book is a must-read!

Great writing, Fantastic narration, Absent Story

There's a story in there - hell there's a few stories in there - but they all pale in comparison to the writing and the narration. The author really knows how to turn a good phrase, how to describe things so perfectly, how to capture a characterization. The narrator - she's amazing - I've never heard a person switch in and out of southern drawl so seamlessly.

The story itself unfortunately.

And the very heavy doses of info-dumps and citations from boring periodicals or reference books - I want to believe that maybe this is a "House Of Leaves" kind of meta-story thing and just maybe half of it is lost in narration, or perhaps there's some much much MUCH deeper meaning that my feeble little mind just couldn't pick up because the writer was writing for other writers, who would be able to pick up on all the subtle literary references between mythology, Virginia Woolf, Yates, Jung - there was just so much going on that whatever kind of supernatural scary tale that might've been buried in there - it just never got a chance to breathe.

And there's no ending. Literally.

And the hard core erotica threw me for a loop; I'd already recommended the book to a few people because of the brilliant way the author explained her take on ghostly apparitions, and her writing, it was a really good book, but as soon as the lube came out, yeesh I had to do some serious back-pedaling.

So - we've got an author who is just amazing at writing themes and using her words in the best of ways, with a narrator who just NAILS a torn soul or two, but a story that is trying to be about seven things at once, and succeeds at MAYBE three of them, tops.

Hmmm......

This book will either leave you exclaiming,WOW! Or have you scratching your head and thinking, HUH..? I'm leaning on the side of WOW! This is not a fast paced chiller-thriller. It's not supposed to be. Is it a story about a haunted tree? Well sort of. In any case, I can't get it out of my head.

A beautifully crafted tale

After listening to this book, I am a new fan of Ms. Kiernan. The tale is chilling in a way the creeps up and over and under the skin, taking its time but not taking too long. I finished it feeling dazed and uncomfortable, which is precisely how I like my horror. A unique and troubling read.