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    <body><![CDATA[I finished this book last night and I have been thinking about what I want to say in its review since.  Strange is the first word that comes to mind. This is the first time I have read anything written by Sarah Langan. After reading the first few chapters, I was totally hooked. Everything vividly de...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/55194911">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[2.5 Stars<br/><br/>A dark tale of a small town and it's inhabitants. The story is focused on the Marley family, a defunct paper mill, and how the residents of this depressing small town get caught up in horrific events. The story fits somewhere in between a witch tale, a ghost story, and a family ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/72515399">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[<p> Some believe Bedford, Maine, is cursed. Its bloody past, endless rain, and the decay of its downtown portend a hopeless future. With the death of its paper mill, Bedford's unemployed residents soon find themselves with far too much time to dwell on thoughts of Susan Marley. Once the local beauty, she's now the local whore. Silently prowling the muddy streets, she watches eerily from the shadows, waiting for . . . <em>something</em>. And haunting the sleep of everyone in town with monstrous visions of violence and horror. </p> <p> Those who are able will leave Bedford before the darkness fully ascends. But those who are trapped here&amp;#8212from Susan Marley's long-suffering mother and younger sister to her guilt-ridden, alcoholic ex-lover to the destitute and faithless with nowhere else to go&amp;#8212will soon know the fullest and most terrible meaning of nightmare. </p>]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is a hard one to describe. It's set entirely in a small city called Bedford, Maine. Its inhabitants are mostly lower middle class, small town people. They drink, they gossip, they work. Recently their main source of income, the paper mill, was shut down, leaving many of them jobless and wi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/36035366">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Story: <br/>Bedford,Maine is a ghost of its former self. Once a bustling mill town that era has finally came to an end whith the company who ran the mill moving on to greener pastures. With the last source of employment drying up, the town teeters on the brink of oblivion. In this limbo the mysteri...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/20095894">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[So horror appears to be when bad things happen to everybody despite anything good or bad they've done in life--in short, pathos. But the writing in this is excellent with some beautiful metaphors and a highly readable narrative style. And unlike Frankenstein, this one has an overall theme of forgive...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/37395889">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I got this as a free download to my Sony ebook reader and read it on my vacation last week.  It was good, creepy, and very strange. It kept me reading because I wanted to know what the deal ultimately was.  I would never have bought it or picked it up at the library 'cause I don't often read horror ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/79434158">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Didn't read the back of the book before I started it. Snuggled into bed expecting a good novel and got a horror story. Don't get me wrong, I love Stephen King and other thrilling authors, but I wasn't expecting a shabby rendition of Carrie. Did not care for the book at all and I was in fact, hard pr...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/79484174">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I remember when a friend gave me this book and because it looked interesting i told her i would read it. And i started too, but because it was late at night it scared me. I feel stupid and childish saying it now but i put the book down and didnt pick it back up. I might ask if i can read it again, s...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77873163">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This book was disturbing for me since I dont read horror often. Even so, I was unable to put it down. The story is thought provoking and gut wrenching. It will take me a few days to absorb this one. There is a second book to this one that I will read eventually, if I read it now I may sink into a de...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/72442275">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[For her first novel, Sarah Langan has all the makings of an excellent horror writer. She is very succint in her character portrayals. The story could have been a little more tight, but maybe it will all come together in the second book, The Missing. Would definitely recommend this author to others.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I just finished this book today and was thinking the whole time that it was a Stephen King wanna be.  It was a decent read since it was free from the Sony e-reader store.  I might read the second book if it is free as well.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This book was strange.  There were a few parts that I felt were creepy but for the most part I thought it was a little weak.  For three quarters of the book, I had a hard time keeping the peripheral characters straight.  I'm not sorry I read it, but it didn't change my life. ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Free download on the Kindle so I gave it a shot.<br/><br/>Unexciting plot, but the characters are well developed.  Decent pre-halloween read :)]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Stephen King wannabe, right down to the setting. What is it about Maine that makes ghosts, giant spiders and zombies gather there?]]></body>
    
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