Boy's Life

I chose this book because it was on a Goodreads list of top horror novels. It was not horror in the strictest sense of the word--I was expecting something closer to "Summer of Night" by Dan Simmons. This was not full of fear inducing scenes, but was still an excellent tale of a young boy growing up. A character in the story describes how he wrote a book about life in a small town, and the publisher told him it would be much better with a murder mystery in it. I thought it was a creative addition to a book about life in a small town, disrupted by a murder mystery. This book is not what I expected, but I thoroughly enjoyed it.

Good Lord this book wrecked me. Didn't go all the way to 5 stars because it was a mighty slow build that I think could have been cut down a bit, and one of the characters was just a little too Noble Injun for my taste, but a story well done otherwise. I gave it one star for each time it made me cry and I "threw in one more for good luck."

Loved it. There are so many similarities in character development, story, mystery and overall feeling, to Stephen king. I mean this as a compliment. It's one great coming of age story with the quirks of a 12 year old and buddies. Fun time, tragedy, sunburn, etc. I enjoyed it a lot. As with any book, it depends 100% on the reader and their moment in life. For me, I'm glad I read this adventurous tale that gives me that "12 year old look on life perspective" where you want and can do anything.

I chose this book because it was on a Goodreads list of top horror novels. It was not horror in the strictest sense of the word--I was expecting something closer to "Summer of Night" by Dan Simmons. This was not full of fear inducing scenes, but was still an excellent tale of a young boy growing up. A character in the story describes how he wrote a book about life in a small town, and the publisher told him it would be much better with a murder mystery in it. I thought it was a creative addition to a book about life in a small town, disrupted by a murder mystery. This book is not what I expected, but I thoroughly enjoyed it.

It's a bit like a comic book with exaggerated gunfights and super amazing bike rides. The "simple" life of the 50s and 60s with the taint of the ugly bad that has been in the world since the beginning of time and marches forward every decade.

I loved this book. There's really not much else I can say, because I only finished it this morning and I'm still speechless. It's going on the favorites shelf.